Serious Game Design & The Lily Bard Project with Jean Leggett

I'm excited to announce that Jean Leggett will be speaking about approaches to designing games with sensitive subject matter and adapting Charlaine Harris's Lily Bard book into a game at our Wednesday, November 27th meetup!

Jean is the CEO and co-founder of games & edtech startup One More Story Games. Alongside games veteran and husband of 23 years, Jean and Blair have developed a simplified publishing platform to help non-coding storytellers create and publish narrative games. Their vision is to re-engineer literacy through video games. They’ve raised over $500,000 since the company’s inception in 2013.

Jean received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Simon Fraser University, has been a certified professional coach since 2010, and has spoken to international audiences since 2005 as a motivational speaker, educator and stand-up comedian. She’s also the lead writer on a game adaptation of #1 NYT bestselling author Charlaine Harris’ Lily Bard series about a sexual trauma survivor dealing with PTSD while solving crimes. She is currently teaching Story, Quests and Missions at Sheridan College near Toronto, Canada.

The goal of this group is to build a positive and supportive community. Anyone interested in hearing this talk is welcome to attend, whether they've made 100 games or 0 games :)

Looking forward to seeing you on the 27th!