Finding Player Two: A Dating Sim Panel

IGDA Los Angeles

Love is in the air! Join us February 11th at 7 pm for the first chapter of our Dating Sim developer series

<h1>** THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT**</h1><h2>You can still join us! We will be streaming the panel on Twitch and keeping an eye on any questions that come up there as well. https://www.twitch.tv/igdala </h2>Join the IGDA Los Angeles Chapter on February 11th for the first chapter of our dating sim series.We will be joined by the creative hearts and brains behind some of our favorite dating sims to discuss their design and development process.Panelists: <ul><li>Kelsie Mhoon- Narrative Designer, Freelance on Choices: Stories You Play. Full Bio Coming Soon!</li><li>Alexei Bochenek- is a creative director for games and animation, based out of Los Angeles, CA. Since his days as a writer for Nerdist, he managed to turn his passion for pop-culture into a career, first working at Disney and now with creative studio Psyop. As a writer &amp; director, Alexei has created two visual novels. The first, Camp W, was an independently published “friending simulator” set at a summer camp with magical secrets. The second, I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator, in which players attend cooking school alongside the Colonel himself, was a direct collaboration with KFC that caught fire among fans of anime and indie gaming alike. As a lifelong anime fan, Alexei is proud and delighted to have been part of a cultural moment that furthered the mainstreaming of anime culture in the West, in the weirdest way possible.</li></ul><ul><li>Cuahtémo Marquez- Game Designer &amp; Narrative Producer at Embodied, Inc. , A Love Craft- USC Thesis . Cuahtémo Marquez is a producer, game designer, and born-and-raised Angeleno. Marquez&#x27;s work aims to bring a queer, decolonized lens to interactive media and science fiction. They have worked on visual novels, RPGs, and even robots! </li></ul><ul><li>Tyler Hutchison - Former Director/Lead Developer at Game Grumps, Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator. Full Bio Coming Soon!</li></ul>Moderator:Zhenghua Yang (Z) is the Executive Director and Narrative Director at Serenity Forge, a values-driven video game development &amp; publishing company in Boulder, CO. Having built his first computer at the age of 6 and programmed his first video game at the age of 10, Z started Serenity Forge after a near-fatal illness at the age of 18, focusing on creating meaningful games that challenge the way we think. Z is a TEDx speaker and was selected for Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2020; his art and games have reached fans around the world and have been exhibited at museums such as the Smithsonian Institution &amp; Denver Botanic Gardens. Some notable romantic comedy titles Z has led include Land of Screens, Date Night Bowling, and the upcoming Valentine&#x27;s Day COVID romantic adventure game, Half Past Fate: Romantic Distancing.

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