Name: What is the Future of Gaming?
Start: 2025-06-21T13:00:00-0400
End: 2025-06-21T14:00:00-0400

Saturday June 21, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

Game designers and gaming professionals from different disciplines come together to discuss the future of the industry. Steve Jackson moderates.

Moderators

Steve Jackson

Steve Jackson graduated from Rice University in Houston. While there, he spent most of his time playing wargames and working on the student paper, the Thresher (he spent two years as editor). He became a writer and game publisher, proving that college can be very valuable as long... Read More →

Guests

Brian Urbanek

Brian has been making games since the mid 90s, and still hasn't learned his lesson. He works primarily in online video games, and specializes in economies, systems work, and social mechanics. Some of his highest profile recent titles are XCom 2 and the last eight years of Call of... Read More →

David Sherrer

David Sherrer is a born storyteller and has been an obsessive gamer ever since he was seduced by Magic the Gathering at the tender age of fourteen. He has alternately owned a gaming store, street performed for a living, and survived eleven years in the soul crushing world of telecommunications... Read More →

James L. Cambias

James L. Cambias is an SF writer and game designer. His most recent novel is The Scarab Mission, in 2023. His short stories have appeared in Nature, F&SF, and several anthologies. His most recent game is Weird War I. He is a partner in Zygote Games and blogs at www.jamescambias.c... Read More →

Blaine Pardoe

Blaine Pardoe is a New York Times Bestselling and award winning author of numerous books in the true crime, science fiction, military non-fiction, political thriller, paranormal, and business management genres. He has appeared on a number of national television and radio shows to... Read More →

Tony Andarian

Tony Andarian is the author of the Sanctum of the Archmage epic fantasy novels and games. They are published by his personal imprint, Andarian Publishing. Invested from a young age with an overactive imagination, he's had a lifelong love of science fiction, fantasy, computer games... Read More →

Roger and Janet Carden

Roger and Janet Carden are the husband-and-wife team behind The Halfling and the Spaceman: Journeys In Active Fandom. (2022-present) The Halfling and the Spaceman is a podcast featuring a series of conversations with creators as they detail their personal journey from becoming inspired... Read More →

Saturday June 21, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C

Gaming, Round Table

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