We'd like to invite you to the inaugural Visual Media Network* – Games Event in Leeds on Tuesday 20 November 2018, in association with Creative England.

This seminar and networking event will delve into the design, print and marketing capabilities of board games with speakers from; Cartamundi, British Film Institute, Decision Technology and YMPT.

Programme

- 13.00: Arrival and registration

- 13.25: Welcome - Robert McClements, President, Creative Digital Industries (CDi)

- 13.30 - 14.45: Great games... you create them, we make them! - Lewis Young, UK Games Manufacturing Services Manager, Cartamundi

Cartamundi launched www.MakeMyGame.com which is an online platform that allows designers and publishers to create game prototypes.

You've developed a board game. Now you want to take it to market, but how much does it cost to make a board game? Get an estimate cost for you game in 10 simple steps.

Cartamundi is a global family of games manufacturers and consultants. Presently the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of playing cards and board games. Their secret? A skilled workforce that brings experience and passion to any game they make.

- 14.45 - 15.30: Datamining BoardGameGeek – turning your feelings into numbers - Colm Seeley, Video Games Certification Analyst, British Film Institute and Dinesh Vatvani,Data Anaylst, Decision Technology

When we play board games, we deal with hard numbers; income, victory points, die probabilities, but when we talk about them, our language gets fluffier. This presentation uses the rich, community-generated data set of BoardGameGeek to test some universal board game 'truths' and show what's actually going on. How fast has roll-and-move died out as a mechanic? How quickly is the annual number of board game releases rising? How biased is the BoardGameGeek Top 100 towards heavy games? We'll have the answers to these questions and more, illustrated with some handsome graphs and a perfectly reasonable amount of mathematical hand-waving.

- 15.30 - 16.15: How the games we curate relate not just to the audience we have – but also the audiences we build - David Hayward, Director at YMPT

YMPT has run events for video game developers for over a decade and actually understands how diverse is the spectrum of board gaming. David is curator of Leftfield for EGX and EGX Rezzed where he shows experimental video games. He will discuss building and working with the offline gaming community and understanding what kind of audience are into board games.

- 16.15 - 17.00: General discussion

To register your attendance please email [email protected]