2025 Speakers
James Portnow, CEO, Rainmaker Games
James Portnow is a Game Designer by trade, who's worked on games ranging from the Call of Duty Series to League of Legends to Farmville. He is the creator of one of the most popular Youtube channels on game design, Extra Credits, and has used that platform not only to teach people how to make games but also to show how we can use the lessons gained from making games to teach more traditional subjects like History. He's spoken at universities and corporations around the world and at conferences ranging from GDC to PAX to SXSW. He's been quoted in the New York Times and Time Magazine, published by Oxford University Press and has taught at the Masters and Bachelor's level.
