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## Core
### GoH Fe Waters
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### GoH Gillian Rubinstien
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### GoH Jane Esperson
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### Swap Meet
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Exchange your items for money, exchange your money for items. $5 a table for sellers.
### Opening Ceremony
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We Officially Open Swancon 2016! Welcome!
### Closing Ceremony
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Swancon over. Great sadness.
### The Tin Duck Awards
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### Masquerade Ball
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The Masquerade, with dancing and Cosplay competition. The theme is Mashups.
### WASFF AGM
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### Safe Spaces
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### Swancon 2017 Launch
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Come find out who the Guests are for 2017! Tickets will go on sale after the launch and will remain at launch-prices for two weeks after the Con
### Jane Esperson Signing
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### Gillian Rubinstien Signing
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### Fan Fund Auction
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### 2017 Homework Panel
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Come and Findout what you Need to read/watch/play/do to prepare for 2017.
### Feedback Panel
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Come tell WASFF and the Swancon 2016 and 2017 committees what you liked and what you didn't so that next year's con can be even better!
### Launch Part 2
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### Meet the WASFF Board Lunch
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Come out to lunch with the WASFF Board. (Lunch not included).
Meet in-front of the Reg Desk
Panellists: Doug Burbidge, Alexis Hemsley, Anna Hepworth, Stephen McGlone, Cathy Cupitt, Jack Bridges, PRK, Stephen Griffiths, Margaret Watts
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Susan Ackermann
Susan Ackermann
Kitty Byrne
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Fans have made many great trailers. Some that are better than the actual movie trailers. Some that are for movies that will never come out. Some have even inspired actual movies.
Lets watch some of them
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If someone wants to make this happen, even just by writing a script and performing without reheseal then more power to them
We don't have to read the books from front to back. We can skip sections, we can can read only some Point's of View, we can reorder the chapters chronologically, we can skip ahead and see if the character dies. We can interleave movies with books.
How can we read different and what can that do for us?
We are going to talk about works where diversity is done right. Not any one kind.
What is Bechdel Test? Is it interesting to fail the reverse Bechdel test? What other tests can we quantify representation
Some works have created new Genres. What was the first cyberpunk? Shelly's Frankenstein create Scifi
A look at how different versions of the same media are created. Some times due to differences in the the ratings board, and other times due to commercial interests.
Come on a journey to the year back to the events, the books that were published, the music, on the big & small screen, ‘where the times were changing’
2016 is the anniversary of many things. Star Trek, Batman (TV series), The Monkees, Fantastic Voyage (book), Dark Shadows
Panelists: Damian Magee,
From Batleths to Cthulus, and everything in between. Crafting in fannish contexts.
Panelists: Fe Waters, Drhoz Maybe Elaine Walker Maybe some costumers?
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Now we have 3D printers, PlastiMake, SuGu, and many tools that let us create what we want.
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Panellists: Cathy Cupitt
Panelists: Drhoz
Augment, Enhance, and Subvert Living Tissue and Life.
The best books for introducing Science, or even !!SCIENCE!! to children.
[Accademic?]
Find out how archives and libraries help preserve SF literature, fanzines, convention booklets, podcasts, blogs, etc. and our legal responsibility to deposit materials.
Panelists: Gene Melzack
[Accademic?]
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Learn about Cycle Cycles,. REM-sleep and more!
Talking about current legislation and practices.
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Chemicals are cool, dangerous chemicals are cooler. Fear ClF3. Panelists: Margret Dunlop, John Parker, Drhoz
We talk about uses of Augmented Reality, not just games, but also tools used in the real world right now.
How we can be sustainstable. Do you know where your chicken is?
Drones are getting better and better.
Robot Wars. Robot Soccer. Giant Mech Deathmatch. We are going to talk about sports for robots.
Fitbits, Google Now
This panel takes a look at the portrait of aspects of Japan through Art, Film, Manga and written word. Examples: TV series Samurai, film 47 Ronin, art of Edo Period. Panelists: (Damian Magee, Gillian Rubinstien?,)
while we all imbibe mead/ale/cider (NB: Do not actually drink in the convention space please)
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I like this book so much I will talk about it for 3 minutes
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Panelists: Sarah Parker
Fairy tales were not originally written for children. Listen to these direct translations, and understand why
We all have our guilty and not so guilty pleasures. Is it even worth drawing a line between paranormal romance and urban fantasy?
Panellists: Rebecca Laffar-Smith
Some retellings are retellings of retellings. Folk lore returns to its rules of variational stories.
Possible Panelists: Cathy Culpit? Jane Esperson?
European Fantasy is actually just Western European. Lets talk Eastern European, as well as all other continents/cultures fantasy.
People can create many things, and maintain the expression of their existance. Some of those things are places. Look at Starfolk Castle, look at Nightvale.
Panelists: Evan Beasley,
How fantasy war compares to historical, and to modern. The tactical employment of magic.
When is it a zombie, when is it a flesh golem? Is it a hyperdrive, a jumpdrive or a FTL drive?
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We talk about our theories for who will die next, err I mean what is actually going on. SPOILER WARNING
iZombie and Warm Bodies have sympathetic zombie prior we had twilight, even witches were monsters once. There is a Onyx Path / Whitewolf publishes multiply roleplaying systems dedicated to this.
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A look at times we forget that a lot of "innocent" magic is in-fact incredibly awful.
Won't somebody think of the children! When characters "settle down" they don't have to settle down. A discussion of protagonists who have responsibilities.
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Satima Flavell launches the (moderately) long awaited sequel to The Dagger of Dresnia.
Panelists: Satima Flavell
The 1970s saw British television broadcasters produce a staggering array of science fiction, fantasy and horror productions including Doctor Who, Blake’s 7, Survivors, The Omega Factor, UFO, Doomwatch, 1990, The Stone Tape, Children of the Stones and many others. What stimulated this sudden rush of genre programmes, and what was it that made so many of them present such dark, occasionally confronting, material? To what extent did real world concerns and issues influence the popular culture of the time?
Panellists:Grant Watson
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Take a look History of Hammer’s first big Horror Hit, Frankenstein ( as a Video Presentation) Panelist: Damian Magee
I was walking down the street oneday, and then suddenly. Cthulu. Cthulu isn't a monster, Cthulu is a brand. Discussion of the reuse of Lovecraftian characters/concepts/styles.
Panelists: Drhoz, Dave Cake
A discussion of Supernatural vs content from folk lore and the bible. Panelists: Samara Morgan
The differences and commonalities when producing horror in different media.
Panelists: Drhoz
SCP is a collaborative fiction wiki. Documenting secure containment protocols for monsters (and other issues), described on the site.
We;re going to talk about some of our faverates and maybe even write a few together.
Panelists: Evan Beasley
What was successful, what innovated, what worked, why it worked.
[Panelists: Steven, Samara]
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What is the best Horror, and otherwise not child friendly, films coming out in the next few years?
horror podcasts of note
Panelists: Stuart Finlay
Panelists: Drhoz
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A discussion about the Walking Dead TV show
Websites for the Aspiring Insomniac
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get screening rights for the documentary "The Nightmare" from Madman/Monster Pictures (one of them will be the film's distributors).
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We are going to talk about zombies.
Subversions of biblical stories, featuring horror elements. Eg Memnoch the Devil.
Can it be scary and funny? or does it just break the ice?
Is horror ok for YA? Is horror infact designed for YA.
Lovecraft is neigther the beginning nor the end of eldritch horror.
Panellists: Drhoz
Time is a circle. What has been will be again. We current projections suggest we are drawing towards the end of the Zombie period.
Zombie stories continue to be popular in film and television, and most viewers are familiar with how the zombie apocalypse usually happens. Is that really how it would happen in a real-life situation – assuming for the moment, of course, that zombies could be real? How would society react to the walking dead? What would our governments’ responses be? What would a post-zombie world really look like, and what things do the writers of zombie narratives always seem to forget?
In 1966, came Sci-Fi TV show would define sci-fi and social issues, join as our panelist recall how they were introduce to show, fond memories and what was the best worst episodes.
Panelists: Damian Magee, Danny Oz, Michael Cogan, Sarah Akers?
We have now gone past Back to the Future II, and several other SciFi future travels. We talk about what predictions were correct and what were not.
In October 2012 the Walt Disney Company purchased Lucasfilm Ltd for four billion dollars and immediately put a string of Star Wars feature films into the development, starting with 2015’s The Force Awakens. Now that the film has been and gone, how successfully has it continued the Star Wars saga? With a new film due in cinemas every year for the rest of the decade, is there a risk we’re about to start drowning in a galaxy far, far away? What effect is it likely to have on other Hollywood studios? A look at the future of Star Wars: what’s worked, what hasn’t, what we’re keen to see and what we’re hoping Disney will avoid.
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The sensible reader of course has no question -- it is ███████████. But for those who haven't realized yet, here is some space to argue.
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Why representation matters and how to be an ally of First Nations writers and peoples. [presentation] Panelists: Ambelin Kwaymullina
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The year in review Panelists: Aaron Creaser, Heather Magee, Michael Cogan, Damian Magee
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Jon Pertwee Season Nine- Travel back into the TARDIS and Classic Monsters & villain returns this season we see the return of the Daleks, Ice Warriors, and the Master.
This season The Doctor and Jo encounter the Daleks that control future Earth, Ice Warriors at the court of Peladon, meeting the Sea-Devils.
And seeing The Master watching the Clangers as alien species.
Panelists: Damian Magee, Danny Oz, Heather Magee, Grant Watson, Aaron Creaser and Colin Sharp.
(Can somesome reminds me what Player 1 is? (book? Comic? TV show? Game?)
Distributed Sentience, corperations as individuals, ideas a group can thoughts without any idividuals having it. Mematic memes
How Scifi uses real-world cultures as the basis for alien races; and is it Ok?
(and other Grandmasters). (If you're wondering. I'm referring to The Santaroga Barrier and The Dosadi Experiment.)
How technology used in space and war is now used in peacetime (e.g., food preservation, superglue). How real examples relate to what must occur in our fictional worlds.
What would a Swancon about reimagination be, without discussing the rebirth of Doctor Who, after over a decade off the air. How was Doctor Who recreated for a new generation? As time has going on has it hearkened more to its original roots, or veered off in a new direction?
Panelists: Aaron Creaser
Sure it is common to see scientific screwups in individual showed. Sinking Ice. But some scientific falsehoods are pervasive and are genre defining. We are talking Quantum Entanglement for faster-than-light communication. We are talking radiation caused mutation.
Panellists: Drhoz
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An exercise in imaginative preparedness.
We're preparing to go back in time. For some reason, the people in this room have been chosen to go back in time. We have 1 week to prepare for a once in a millennium occurrence. This room together with everyone and everything inside it will go back in time to the middle ages. There will be no return trip. You have a budget of 1 million dollars (AU).
What do you do?
They are pretty hot right now. Hunger Games, Divergent, The 100, many more. What do we like about them, what great material should we enjoy.
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what happens when you catch up to your future?
None of this Technobable. Hackers in Scify. How to do it right.
Vampires the best Private Eyes? Is werewolf fur a match for human hair? Can we have a murder mystery when mediums can Actually talk to ghosts?
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Starwars, Blade Runner, cowboy bebop,
Look at the models look and the ideas. Time dilation exists and causes issues today.
Lifelogging, the next level of blogging. This scifi opportunity is upon us. What are the implications of Lifelogging? Its been proposed the police be required to watch.
So many great works.
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Obviously we have SF spy-fic - Charles Stross's Laundry Series, Person of Interest. But is all spy fiction it intrinsically speculative anyway?
Possible Panelists: Jack Bridges
A look at the great female writers from the early days of the genre.
Technobable, the good, the bad, the almost-correct.
it very much transitions from procedural/spy-fic with hint of SF to SF with hint of procedual/spy-fic
In September Star Trek turns 50, having continued over the decades through six television series, thirteen feature films and a raft of spin-off novels, comic books, videogames and merchandise. What is it about Star Trek that has inspired such loyalty among its fans and such long-term appeal with the general public? With a seventh television series debuting in early 2017, we ask the question: is there still a place for Star Trek in the 21st century, or will it have to evolve to secure a new audience
Panelists: Grant Watson
"Zenith by Grant Morrisson
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Panelist: John Parker
Bruce Wayne has a net worth of $ 7.0 billion (ref Forbes Fictional 15). How much can he spend of that to become batman? How should it be spent?
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I like this comic so much I am prepared to spend 3 minutes talking about it.
Sometimes movies and the original media go different ways, and you can only enjoy one or the other. But sometimes the movies lead you to only greater enjoyment when you read the comic after. Come and learn which movies and which comics this is true for.
Panelists: Kitty Byrne
You want new readers/viewers to be able to enjoy a product line. Do you create a new universe where the story is told from the start; but the previous line continues on (E.g. Marvel)? Do you start again with a reboot? (E.g. Batman) Do you reintroduce the characters and the story (E.g. Doctor Who)
Since Disney owns so many SF icons. Join us to see how they earn and spend their cash.
On the shoulders of giants: Marvel vs DC or Disney vs Warner Bros? Where the comic industry was once dominated mainly by DC and Marvel, the battle has moved to another level now that each one is owned by a heavy-hitting media industry giant. What does this mean for our favourite DC and Marvel superheroes? Will the fate of other indie companies (like Image, Dynamite, Archaia) depend on their ability to field titles hefty enough to carry movies or tv shows?
And about time too: Making comics for women. It seems silly that comics haven't tried harder to capture the female market, considering that they make up 50% of the population of the planet. Marvel's definitely trying to up their game, with a renewed focus on female superheroes like Captain Marvel, Ms Marvel, Thor and Silk - but is that just falling into the same trap as before, assuming that readers only want to read about characters of their own gender. This panel will discuss other ways that the comic industry could diversify in order to cater to the ignored part of their audience - and probably wind up appealing to more people as a whole.
Something about the mid-80s period, when comics changed or something like that - Dark Knight, Watchmen, birth of Vertigo, etc.
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Moderator: Stevo Panellists: Jay Dalziel
. Things like Secret and Locke and Key and Bitch Planet and Sex Criminals and The Wicked And The Divine and Revival and Saga and The Massive.
Last year saw the end of the the Fantastic Four. Over the years many superheros have come and gone. This panel will discuss the heros that never passed on their power, that never got a reboot, that never relaunched, (as comics).
The story that everyone knows and everyone tells.
Storytelling, though pictures and audio. Buffy Season 8.
Long Form, stand alone works, in comics. Not your regular periodical. Eg Sandman.
During the 1950’s -70’s comics were one of the best way of selling TV show if the show only lasted a season, the comic stories can be better than what was showed on screen.
Panellists: Damian Magee, Drhoz
What would we like from an online bookseller
Running a Swancon is a good idea. Recently we have had very few (read no) bids to run. Why you should not in fact be scared. Ideally the outcome of this discussion is a skeleton of two competing bids
Panelists: Coman?, Doug?, Brendan??? Steven?, PRK?
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From Butter-beer to Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters, Our Faverite fan-drinks. Lets talk cocktail and mock-tail recipes.
Fandoms' I discovered through my children. Books, TV, Movies, Games.
Panelists: Fe Waters?, Gina Goddard?, Emma Hawkes?, Sarah Parker?, Terry Chilvers?
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The Geek Singalong returns for 2016! Fear me! (people like to sing) (people like to sing silly songs even more)
Panelists: Desiree Heald
Its seems like fandom and (legal or otherwise) substance use go together, like Gin and Tonic. Whether it is discussion over coffee, or a room party at a convention. Fandom also has higher visibility for prescription medications for mental health (Not that that is hard, given it is almost invisible in the wider community)
Panellists: Jack Bridges, Samara Morgan?
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Online communities exist for many fandoms, often multiple for the same one. We discuss how to find good one, why some succeed, and others turn toxic.
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Open to all, to learn to create the songs of our people
How to raise your children into geekdom. Can you raise nongeeks?
It has been proposed that there be a new catagory for the Hugos. What are our faverate Sagas.
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Lets talk cosplay; tricks, tips, techniques, and unwritten rules.
Perth is very isolated, it is not so easy here to go and interact with fans elsewhere. Often expos and tours skip us. How has that changed how we are?
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How old are fans? Are we dying out, not replacing numbers? Is young fandom a separate thing?
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Tell us your origin story!
Same dedication, same enthusiasm. Are foot ball jersey's just cosplay?
Possible Panelists: Matt Lindus
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What are the rules for muggle quiditch? Where is it played? What other geeky sports exist
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Swancon's not exactly low on numbers, but more is always better. Lets brainstorm.
You may have heard the music of composer Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Agents of SHIELD, Outlander, The Walking Dead, Defiance, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Constantine, amongst others). Why is he awesome? Let me tell you.
Panelists: Desiree Heald, Grant Watson, Jane Espenson?
Possible Panelists: Elaine Walker?
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Swancon Video Quiz-10th year: This Award Winning event is back for the 10th year, with clips of TV, Film and Music can you guess the clue in the clip
Panellists: Damian Magee, Heather Magee
Things we Fan over, that are not specfic. E.g. Sherlock.
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Things you didn't know were awesome til everyone else had seen/read/played it.
Need to get specific exception to copyright http://www.buddytv.com/articles/buffy-the-vampire-slayer/fox-pulls-the-plug-on-buffy-si-12487.aspx
This panel take a look at what drama to watch or avoid, also what is coming to look forward to.
Could Korean drama could be a new force of drama as more people turn online drama, and discovery something different with Drama from Korea, like its pop music the drama series are gaining huge following, such as titles as ‘Flower Boys Next Door’, Vampire Prosecutor’ and ‘The City Hunter’ this panel intro you world different drama, that get you hooked
Panellists: Damian Magee
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This panel will help cerebrate 60 years when TV came to Australia in 1956. What makes a classic TV? Will some of the popular today will be remember as classics or just a footnote.
It it a writer? Is it a director? No, its a producer!
1960’s Anime that never made it to the West- with the success with Astroboy, Japanese TV was awash different kinds of anime, which never made it to the west, for many were very culture and the humour was too hard to translate and other made in b/w, and big market US was not interested because of colour. This Video Presentation take small look what we had missed.
Panellists: Damian Magee
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looking the studio and cartoons in 1980’s with added competition and pressure the company turn to old favourites, only few hits like The Smurfs. (Presentation) Panelists: Damian Magee
Now there are many ways to stream and download your faverate shows. Whats best, whats the pros and cons. Will this end DVD sales and video stores and piracy?
We long associate youtube with fan works. but some make a living this way.
We all love the muscial episode, right? One More With Feeling, The Music Man etc. This panel discusses the trope, where it is done well, where it is not, and what makes it great (or not).
We can't screen it, but we can sing words.
Often the original media will deal with difficult issues. Deadpool having real schizophrenia, in the comics yes, in the movies? Seems not
Many people have already moved away from Broadcast TV to other services and media, streaming, youtube, DVDs. Is this the last generation that will actually have broadcast TV?
Does it need to start females to be a chick-flick? Can big muscular man not start in an action movie? Can we have a gun-dealer who is not bald?
First very narrow, then diverse, then narrow, now diversity
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Often when Anima is subbed/dubbed for English, the dialogue is changed -- removing homosexual references. A discussion of how, and a look and the before and after.
Possible Panelists: Sophie Ambrose, Andy Hahn
A discussion of the movies, particularly those shown in Swancon screenings.
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Panelists: Andy Hahn
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Movies coming up, for the whole family!
In 2002, with traditionally animated films failing to generate the revenues of their computer-animated cousins, and a distribution contract with Pixar Animation Studios nearing its end, the Walt Disney Company started a permanent shift from hand-animation to CGI. After a turbulent few years, which included a change in company CEO and unprecedented $7.4 billion dollar purchase of Pixar, Walt Disney Animation embarked on its most commercially successful run of animated features ever, including Tangled, Wreck-it Ralph, Big Hero 6 and Frozen. This fifth and final Disney animation presentation brings the story right up to the present day, examining the 10 most recent films from Chicken Little to Zootopia.
Panellists: Grant Watson
This panel take look at the influence this great director and his films set in historical Japan.
Panellists: Damian Magee, Gillian Rubinstien?,Robin Pen?
At Last a woman portrayed the great Doctor Watson, why did take so long, has producers of Elementary achieved their aim? This panel take look at history why took long for audience acceptance of a woman, quickly examine first actress to Watson until now, from Joanne Woodward to Lucy Liu.
Panellists: Damian Magee,
In the latest big screen version of a TV show The Man From U.N.C.L.E., why have some have worked like Charlie’s Angels awhile others had fallen down like Wild Wild West, this panel will examines these films and what other shows could do big screen make over.
Panelists: Damian Magee
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A continuous game of cards against humanity, drop in drop out, all con. Like a ever-burning torch.
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What skills carry over? What new skills are required? Does being good (or bad) at one make you good (or bad) at the other?
Dealing with Games when the rules don’t match the flavor, or outright contradict themselves.
So many problems with a "bad" game can be trance back to the very start -- character generation and the first session -- or even the choice of players and system. How can you make sure all your new games are good ones?
Explore storytelling games/RPGs like Fiasco, Microscope and Once Upon A Time, as a movement in gaming and as writing tools.
A long time ago, we had the Starcraft board Game (and I'm sure it wasn't the first). More recently we saw the XCom board game.
In the world of Fan made RPGs there are plenty like the PnP Fallout, and the GURP: Mass Effect.
What is good, what is bad? What makes what good for what?
Microscope. Glorantha.
Now even mainstream RPG's are being released only print on demand, or even PDF only. And given Australian postage costs/time, PDF is often preferred. How can you use Ebooks in your games, what are the pros and the cons
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Playing in Starwars, Mistborn, Amber. Converting Novels etc to games. The does, the don't and the never should have dones.
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If we work together we can combine the worst of all mechanics. To make an RPG mechanically worse even than FATAL.
Writing a Campaign isn't hard. We are going to do it, in 1 hour.
There are plenty of horror RPGs out there, but how can you actually play them and feel fear? How can you prevent it from becoming action or comedy? Should you?
Tips for learning a complex setting. Whether it is Legends of the Five Rings, or roleplaying in a real world city you've never seen.
Even fairly large publishers like Onyx Path (ie the people using White Wolf' IP), are becoming print on demand only. Others are offering it as a chance to get things that are out of print. This is also true for indi boardgames. Is this our destiny?
Where has that left us?
Some systems fit on 2 A4, some on a business card. We are talking about anything that is smaller than some pamphlets.
In the few last years we've seen a new Shadowrun, a new DnD, a new old World of Darkness, new new World of Darkness, another Traveller, Call of Cthulu 7... What keeps us reinventing these decades old systems?
Fiction based on games. Can you just take your campaign and turn it into a book? Isn't this the whole sword and sorcery genre?
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Notebooks, Index Cards, Mind-maps, Wikis? What do you use?
How can you get involved in the Perth LARP scene?
Both video games and traditional games have seen a recent boom in independent works.
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Clubs, Events, Cons, Meetups, Locations
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Play something like https://www.choiceofgames.com/dragon/
How to run games for children. How to play in games run by children. What RPG systems are best? What works and what does not.
Needs big empty space. Need to ask Wes Lemont if he is willing to provide.
Should your write the fluff and design the mechanics after? Or the reverse? Must both be done at the same time? A look at this question in the context of RPGs and Boardgames.
[Loud]
Minecraft (and its mods), terria, starbound, dwarf fortress, robocraft, space engineers: the list goes on -- even the latest Fallout game has a settlement building subgame. What are they, why do we love them? Which of them should you try next?
[Accademic?]
This could be a journey into statistics. (possible panelists: Andy and Jack)
[Accademic?]
There has always been a push for games to aid in learning, and video games are no exception. Today with decreasing costs, and increasing portability this is more viable than ever. Come learn and discuss how video games and gamification in general is bringing us the future of learning shown in so many SF works. (E.g. Diamond Age)
Panellists: Rebecca Laffar-Smith
Games that are adaptions of table top games. So many popular board and card games are available as apps. Some never come out in print at all (cough Hearthstone)
A look at one of the most famous video game duos of all time.
[lots of work]
Distribute across the room examples of old video games (and handheld). May require taking out the normal gaming room for a day and placing this instead
[Lightning (series of 3 minute)]
What are the best violence free video games?
Panelists: Sophie Ambrose,
Exploring the ways games treat narrative, how that differs from film or print narrative.
{Possible Panelists: Lisa Rye, Cathy Rye, Wendy White, Sophie McFarland}
[Loud]
What do we see in future interfaces? We've seen Hydra and Leapfrog, as well as the on going pularity of the touch screen.
[Round table] [Does Not Need More Panellists/Presenters]
Share your ingress stories.
What is Entry-Level? what is MOBA? Why is this a Farmville? What does it mean to Feed?
Panelists: Andy Hahn
Rooms where your motion is tracked and you play a game. Virtual Runners. Where reality ends and game starts. Space Demons
Plenty of people watch e-sports for entertainment. This panel is about how you can too. The focus will be on games like League of Legends (MOBAs), but also on others. Come and understand how and why.
Panelists: Andy Hahn, Paul Chamberlain
Making your own indie game, even if you are not a programmer or an artist. Talking about the process, what you will need. Also discussing some tools, such as Twine, Renpy, RPG Maker etc.
Possible Panellists Sophie Ambrose, Brendan Ragan, Jon Hayward, Emily Boegheim, Wendy White
We have seen the progressive re-release of games on to cheaper/more portable consoles. Super NES to Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 64 to DS. More recently Old PC games coming out on mobile phones. New platforms breathing new life into old media.
- John Samuel (meaningful names for characters)
This panel take a look at Historical Aspects of the Anime series and the three live actions.
Panellists: Damian Magee,
1960’s Anime that never made it to the West- with the success with Astroboy, Japanese TV was awash different kinds of anime, which never made it to the west, for many were very culture and the humour was too hard to translate and other made in b/w, and big market US was not interested because of colour. This Video Presentation take small look what we had missed.
Panellists: Damian Magee
[Does Not Need More Panellists/Presenters]
We share the recent gems in the flood of anime available. Make it easy for people not as anime obsessed, or who fell out of anime watching awhile ago and don't know where to come back, to work out what to watch.
Panellists: Candice Schilder, James
Andy Hahn
(And does it matter?) Definition Mary Sue:: Character for which there is very little wrong with their live, and further more any adversity they do experience is not their fault.
A character can be Mary Sue without all these traits. What about Special Snowflakes?
What should go on your website, and why you need one, for artists, writers, and other content creators.
Panellists: Satima Flavell, Rebecca Laffar-Smith
Return of the Editors Strike Back (round 3)
Panelists: Satima Flavell
[Lightning (series of 3 minute)]
A chance for you to read out a short passage that you wrote. Could be a poem, a micro-story, the first page of a book. (Feel free to come with handouts, if you would prefer not to speak it out loud)
3 panelists, each of whom have one a different award.
Panelists: Cat Sparks, Jane Esperson?
Speculative fiction is full of "Magic" numbers. Numbers without obvious significance. Why Seven Kingdoms, why 12 Clans? Why does the main character have 2 friends, or 5 friends? How should you make numerical choices in your own works?
How to name your works. There is a lot of right now with Black in the title.
- Black Mirror
- Black Sails
- Orphan Black
- Orange is the new black
But there is more to a good title than just putting the word black in it.
Writing for children isn't easy, but lets try. Can we get children to come up with ideas then write them.
How to get started with doing you-tube. VLOGing, Streaming, Animations, what ever you want
Panelist: Andy Hahn, David Cox?
[AdultsOnly]
Tender Dinosaur aftercare, is where it starts. Where it ends ...? Panelists: Jack Bridges.
How interacting with fans, and the great flow of information of the modern age shapes works.
Panelists: Amanda Bridgeman
One does not want to write all characters of having the same background as your own. But how can you get another right?
[Loud]
The challenge is to read the worst we can find. You lose if give up from laughter.
[Round table] [Does Not Need More Panellists/Presenters]
Did StarTrek inspire the mobile phone?
Some works have changed the world. Mainstream culture has learnt of BDSM becaue of 50 shade of grey.
Do novels need to be full of stunning language use? Can they be too dry to read? A balance must be struck.
These are my Alien Arabs, here are my Fantasy Hindus, have you seen the Space Pope? Duplicate of Star-Trek
[Round table] [Does Not Need More Panellists/Presenters]
Why adults still love to read young adult works.
Panellist: Rebecca Laffar-Smith
[Round table] [Does Not Need More Panellists/Presenters]
Ever had a book you loved, but can't remember the author or title to read it again? Come share what you remember, and together perhaps we can solve the mysteries.
We are going to do as much of a run down of every SF author who lives in Perth as we can. Those who come to swancon and those who do not. Who are they and what do they write.
In some ways Young Adult as a genre is barely beyond a young adults itself. How has it grown and changed
Possible Panelists: Gillian Rubinstien?
Panellists: Rebecca Laffar-Smith, Gillian Rubinstien?
Talking about crafting theorys about what was is happening in books.
[Round table] [Does Not Need More Panellists/Presenters]
Alphabetically? By size? What do you do with series with multiple authors?
The internet contains many story's that for some reason or another were not publish. Some of them are quality original works. How can we find them, to read them; and avoid things not of out taste.
Discussing and promoting Australian short spec-fic as well as short spec-fic in general. Panelists: Anthony Panegyres, Juliet Marrillier?, Stepahenie Gunn?, Stephen Dedman? and Louis Loder?
As a generation of children grows up in an environment where there are so many entertainment and education experiences that compete with the good old book, how can we get them to enjoy this classic hobby and way of learning.
Panellists: Rebecca Laffar-Smith
Rob Masters does actual model rockets, with gunpowerd. We coud do a demo outside