Stick around in the Suite for the lunch break to chat with the other retailers & the ION team. Food may be ordered for delivery via the delicious Osteria Pronto restaurant downstairs.
Whatever your reason was for opening your game store, at the heart of it all, you are a business owner. Recommendations, tips, and how-to's for treating your hobby store as a for-profit enterprise.
Leading Through Games: Applying Gaming Principles to Corporate Learning
Summary:
Apply gaming principles and mechanisms to leadership development. Explore the growth of gameplay in corporate environments and how elements of game play can be used in career development.
Level Up Your Career: Out of the Basement and Up the Ladder
Summary:
Build a “Character Career Sheet” to jump start your resume and job search. Create your plan during the session and identify key strength, areas of opportunity and career goals.
Michilimackinac in Crisis: The Fur Trade During Pontiac’s War
Summary:
Experience a game designed to help students engage with history through different perspectives, followed by a discussion of how to design games for high school classrooms.
Description:
This is a roleplaying game designed for high school classrooms. This session will be playtesting the debate over fur trade rights and regulations among the inhabitants of the Michilimackinac region and the treaty-making mechanics. After the playtest there will be an opportunity to discuss the gameplay and mechanics.
Attendees will receive a character sheet for a historical figure from 1763 Michilimackinac. Participants will negotiate fur trade regulations through debate and speeches, and toward the end of the roleplay will be asked to write a treaty.The playtest will take approximately forty minutes.
Attendees will have an opportunity to discuss the gameplay experience and the mechanics of the game as well as the effectiveness of the game at meeting learning objectives for history and engaging students in education.
Join Paizo Publisher Erik Mona for a look inside the Pathfinder Playtest that begins this week, the path to the release of Pathfinder Second Edition in 2019, and other Paizo developments.
Paizo Organized Play Mgr. Tonya Woldridge provides an overview of educational and entertaining events you can run anywhere, with developments and opportunities provided by the Pathfinder Playtest.