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Geek Speak- Christopher Landauer and Chris Fuchs: “Wizard, Fighter, Rouge RPG Design: Community Building Through Gaming”

April 11, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Christopher Landauer is an Industrial Engineer by vocation (Stanford) and a Roleplaying Game Engineer by avocation. Engineers are typically tasked with building things, and together with Chris Fuchs, Christopher L. has spent the better part of the last decade building communities, building audiences, and building worlds in the Gaming space.

Chris “Savage Mommy” Fuchs is a proud Geek. He has been gaming since the late 90’s, Starting with 2nd Edition D&D and playing with the same gaming group for that entire time.

Between them they organize the Rocky Mountain Savages, the largest RPG group in the Mountain West and coordinate RPGs for the largest tabletop conventions in the same region. They host the Savage Cast, a popular podcast and appear on several other media properties which promote gaming and the game community.

They just released Buccaneer: Through Hell and High Water, their first RPG gaming book and have multiple other projects in the pipeline for publication.

Chris L has also done creative work for Electronic Arts, one of the largest video game companies, was the first person to solve all the puzzles in Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code, and ran a treasure hunting forum with tens of thousands of active participants.

If the first step of being a Geek means being honest and open about the things that excite you and the things that you love, the second step is finding ways to integrate those passions in to your life and career.

Details

Date:
April 11, 2019
Time:
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Event Category:
Website:
http://www.bhsu.edu/Academics/University-Honors-Program/Geek-Speak-Lecture-Series#April-69

Venue

Black Hills State University
1200 University Street, Spearfish, SD 57799 United States
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