Dear all, I put the incorrect date on the invitation I sent in the previous email. The correct date is Wednesday May 1st. Apologies for the confusion. Kindest regards, Siobhan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: IGDA London Chapter <igdalcc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:28 PM Subject: REMINDER Ernst Adams Guest Talk Introducing Machinations: A New Way to Design Game Mechanics To: igda_london_subscribers <igda_london_subscribers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Introducing Machinations: A New Way to Design Game Mechanics Ernest Adams, co-founder of the International Game Developers Association presents his 2013 GDC talk. This event--hosted by London South Bank University's BA (Hons) Game Cultures course--is free. Game mechanics are among the hardest parts of a game to design, because they are difficult to visualize and inconvenient to simulate quickly. In this lecture, Ernest Adams introduces a new visual framework and tool called Machinations, which allows designers with no programming experience to diagram mechanics in a tool like Visio, and simulate them in real-time. In addition, the session will present a library of design patterns that participants can use. Machinations is available for free, this is not a product demo. Wednesday, April 30 7 p.m. London South Bank University Keyworth 2 (K2) room VG06 Maps and Directions to LSBU: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about/maps.shtml