Website: OCAD
Session: Crafting A Mindset For Play As Adults
Emma is a professor in Game Design at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD-U) University in Toronto. She has worked in the game industry for over 17 years: in development, research, and the academy. (This makes her older than the average game geek.) She plays, teaches, makes, writes, and talks about games and play to anyone who stands still long enough to listen.
Website: TIFF Nexus
Twitter: @nickpagee
Session: Crafting A Mindset For Play As Adults
Nick Pagee is trained professionally as a cat herder. In his spare time he’s a gaming and interactive consultant at TIFF Bell Lightbox, animation programmer at TIFF Kids, independent designer, full-time student, and hacker of digital things soft/hardware.
Website: dreamsake.org
Session:Emerging Artist Showcase
Derek Gallant is a game programming student at Humber College who has been captivated by game development for over a decade. He has a passion for indie games, and is currently putting the finishing touches on Ballin, a 2D physics game.
Website: Dustin Freeman
Twitter: @dustinfreeman
Session: Kinect Hacking The Love Child of Tetris and Hole In The Wall
Dustin Freeman combines his backgrounds in math and improvisational theatre in his PhD research on expressive gestural interfaces at the University of Toronto. Previously working on the Microsoft Surface, he recently worked with the Kinect at Microsoft Research Cambridge. He likes beer and travelling the world extensively.
The Gamercamp app, powered by Guidebook, is now available and is the best and easiest way to organize your time at the festival. Check out all our speaker bios, sessions, activities, and even make your own schedule!
Just head to m.guidebookapp.com and you’ll find our event listed on the home page. If you have an iPhone, iPod Touch, or Android device, you can download the Guidebook app off the Apple and Android app stores and search for Gamercamp—one advantage is that the app saves the information locally, so even if you lose connectivity, you still have that goodness available. You can also get notifications for upcoming sessions so you won’t miss a thing, even if you’re in the middle of an epic game!
Friday 8:00 to 10:00 pm. Join us for the Casual Gala at CSI Annex.
Gamercamp gives back with a party hosted by Electric Playground‘s Shaun Hatton celebrating a year of great games from local designers and developers. See Toronto’s future talent with the emerging artist showcase and get your hands on one-of-a-kind game art with an exciting charity raffle supporting the Hospital for Sick Children.
[Separately ticketed event!]
Saturday from 8:00 to 10:00 pm. Sign up for a night of adventure with our Urban Road Trip—like a live-action Mario Party across the city, but better!— as we challenge teams to race to complete ten unique challenges and battle to be on top!
Not participating in the Urban Road Trip? Join us at Betty’s while we cheer on the teams and provide live updates, before holding the trophy ceremony at 10:30 pm.
Sunday 7:00 to 10:00 pm. Join Will Perkins and Peter Kuplowsky post-Gamercamp for the Toronto premiere of The FP, a film best described as the Warriors meets Dance Dance Revolution. Then, play some DDR on the big screen!
[Note: special event! Tickets sold at the door of Toronto Underground Cinema!]
