“Rym & Scott have given hundreds of lectures over the last 16 years on a variety of game design topics. Hosts of the GeekNights podcast, they usually discuss game design, tabletop mechanics, and the like. Bridging the gap between academia, industry, and fandom, they bring all three perspectives together. One time, they saw a ghost.”
“Karl & Will Brueggemann are the Super Marcato Bros. Together they host a popular and long-running weekly video game music podcast, as well as compose original music for games. Through their podcast, they analyze the compositional and technical aspects of game music from all generations, and discuss what separates it as an art form. As game composers, they strive to capture the sense of timelessness found in classic VGM.”
“Ethan “flibitijibibo” Lee is a professional game porter, with over 50 games of experience across multiple platforms, including primarily Linux but also macOS, Windows, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. Popular examples of his work include FEZ, Celeste, TowerFall, Super Hexagon, VVVVVV, Dust: An Elysian Tail, Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, Hacknet, Owlboy, Bleed, Salt & Sanctuary, Rogue Legacy, Flinthook, Apotheon, Cryptark, Escape Goat, Eversion, and much much more! In addition to native Linux games, he is now also working on Proton and Wine as part of a preservation effort to bring abandoned Windows games to Linux in a streamlined experience that is available as Free Open Source Software. At previous MAGFests he has run panels on SteamOS/Linux game development, PC game optimization, and XBLIG preservation with FNA, his reimplementation of the XNA Game Studio runtime libraries.”
