PURE SPECULATION 2009 - October 2-4 at the Shaw Conference Center, Edmonton

About Pure Spec

Friday October 2

19:00

Taste of Pure Spec

Saturday October 3

	ALPHA ROOM	OMEGA ROOM	MAIN HALL/LOBBY
10:00	the Potter Prophecy fanfilm		See Gaming Schedule
10:30	Convenience vs. Continuity	What puts the “SF” in SF Poetry?
11:00
11:30	Art in Game Design	Wolfgang Baur / Monte Cook interview
12:00			Medieval Combat Demo
12:30	Zombie Preparedness	The Ethics of Human Enhancement
13:00
13:30	RPG Game design	FIAWOL or FIJAGDH: You choose
14:00
14:30		Finding Nemo: Jules Verne as steampunk	Guest of Honour Signing Session
15:00	Webcomics 101
15:30		Only One Book Stays on the Island	See Gaming Schedule
16:00	Designing Boardgames for Fun and Profit
16:30
17:00			"Geeks for Geeks" Charity Auction
17:30
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20:00	Costume Shindig

Schedule Legend:
	Gaming		Con*Spec		Comics		Books		TV		Misc

Sunday October 4

	ALPHA ROOM	OMEGA ROOM	MAIN HALL/LOBBY
10:00	Finding planets and stars in the daytime sky	Comics Investing 101	See Gaming Schedule
10:30
11:00	Sketch Jam	My First Book: The Birthing Process
11:30
12:00	How to get into the video game industry	Interview with Con Spec’s Author Guest, Ed Willett
12:30
13:00	"Hey, Wait a Sec..." Exploring inconsistencies in Harry Potter	Prisoners of Gravity
13:30
14:00	Disaster Preparedness	Creating RPGs as a Collective
14:30
15:00	Writing for Television	That’s Not What I Meant
15:30
16:00	the Wizard Rockumentary film	Steam Wars: Star Wars steampunk
16:30
17:00