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2025 SCHEDULE
Below you will find the schedules for each day at AdventureX 2025.
Accurate as of publication on 11 August 2025. May be subject to change.
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Saturday 22nd November
Time | Length | Description |
|---|---|---|
09:30 | 45 mins | Doors open |
10:15 | 15 mins | Welcome to AdventureX |
10:30 | 30 mins | Dave Gilbert | Talk - 20 Years of Wadjet Eye |
11:00 | 30 mins | Märten Rattasepp | Talk - Creativity in the Age of the Machine |
11:30 | 30 mins | Break |
12:00 | 30 mins | Jess Haskins & Marissa Koors | Talk - The Well-Edited Game: Building an Editorial Culture in Game Dev |
12:30 | 45 mins | Keynote: To Be Announced |
13:15 | 1 hour | Lunch break |
14:15 | 1 hour | Esther Wright, Holly Nielsen, Chris Kempshall & Stephanie Rennick | Panel hosted by Esther Wright - Fact versus Fiction: Creating historical games for a modern audience |
15:15 | 30 mins | Aoife Gleeson | Talk - 5, 6, 7, 8: Using the enneagram to craft compelling playable stories |
15:45 | 30 mins | Break |
16:15 | 30 mins | James Bore | Talk - Non-Consensual Interactive Fiction |
16:45 | 30 mins | Steven Lake | Talk - Chairs As a Form of Protest in Video Games |
17:15 | 15 mins | Break |
17:30 | 1 hour | PushingUpRoses & Matt Aukamp | Show - Save Your Game - Live |
18:30 | Til late | Afterparty |
Sunday 23rd November
Time | Length | Description |
|---|---|---|
09:45 | 45 mins | Doors open |
10:30 | 15 mins | Welcome to AdventureX |
10:45 | 30 mins | Sally Beaumont | Talk - The Nine Verbs of Voice Acting: how to direct a Human Doing |
11:15 | 30 mins | Jon Ingold & Sagar Beroshi | Talk - Through the Kaleidoscope: Lessons from Interviewing One Hundred Game Writers |
11:45 | 30 mins | Break |
12:15 | 30 mins | Julia Mascetti | Talk - How (not?) to localise your narrative game into Chinese and Japanese |
12:45 | 30 mins | Francisco González | Talk - Twice-Told Tales: Remakes, Reboots, and Remasters |
13:15 | 1 hour | Lunch break |
14:15 | 45 mins | Keynote - To Be Announced |
15:00 | 30 mins | Joff Winks | Talk - The Sound of Isolation: Music as Narrative in Arctic Awakening |
15:30 | 30 mins | Break |
16:00 | 30 mins | Oscar Harrington-Shaw | Talk - Witcher Mutations: Blending beloved but distinct franchises in Reigns: The Witcher |
16:30 | 30 mins | Bertine van Hövell | Talk - Playing With Fire: A how-to for Transgressive Narratives |
17:00 | 30 mins | Break |
17:30 | 1 hour | Will Ackermann, Treasa McCabe, Robin Ward, Tim Sheinman | Panel hosted by Laura Cress - From Golden Idol to The Roottrees Are Dead: Solving the Case of Great Detective Design |
18:30 | Til late | Afterparty |
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