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About the GamiCon ATX Preview Series
What makes GamiCon ATX different isn't just the speakers. It's the opportunity to build alongside them.
Our GamiCon ATX Preview Series gives Game Garage members an early look at the ideas, methods, and collaborative design approach you'll experience in Austin. Each live session highlights a different aspect of creating game-based and gamified learning while showcasing the expertise of the speakers you'll meet at GamiCon ATX.
Join us in Austin, September 14-15, and continue building with us.
GamiCon ATX Preview Series
From Story to Play
Creating Learning Experiences People Want to Finish
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM Central
A Closed Preview Experience for GamiCon ATX Registrants + Game Garage Members
People don't remember PowerPoint slides.
They remember the decisions they made, the challenges they overcame, and the experiences they had along the way.
In this special GamiCon ATX Preview, you'll discover how story, meaningful choices, and rapid prototyping come together to create learning experiences that learners actually want to complete.
Join GamiCon ATX speakers Jonathan Peters and Robert Feeney as they share practical strategies for moving beyond content delivery and designing experiences that are immersive, memorable, and built for real-world performance.
Here's the Catch...
The GamiCon ATX Preview Series is a closed experience. To participate, you must be registered for GamiCon ATX or be a Game Garage member.
Already registered for GamiCon ATX or a Game Garage member? You're in! Watch your email and member communications for your private access information.
Want to join us? You have two options. Register for GamiCon ATX and you'll receive access to the Preview Series, or become a Game Garage member with either a month-to-month membership or an annual membership that includes you and up to five members of your team.
GamiCon ATX Preview Series
From Design to Results
Building Learning Experiences That Create Real Change
Thursday, August 27, 2026
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Central
A Closed Preview Experience for GamiCon ATX Registrants + Game Garage Members
Creating an engaging learning experience is only part of the challenge.
The real measure of success is whether learners apply what they've learned and organizations see meaningful results.
In this special GamiCon ATX Preview, you'll explore how thoughtful design decisions, practical implementation strategies, and meaningful measurement work together to create learning experiences that deliver lasting impact.
Join Monica Cornetti and Chuck Sigmund for an interactive session focused on moving beyond great ideas and building learning that holds up in the real world.
Here's the Catch...
The GamiCon ATX Preview Series is a closed experience. To participate, you must be registered for GamiCon ATX or be a Game Garage member.
Already registered for GamiCon ATX or a Game Garage member? You're in! Watch your email and member communications for your private access information.
Want to join us? You have two options. Register for GamiCon ATX and you'll receive access to the Preview Series, or become a Game Garage member with either a month-to-month membership or an annual membership that includes you and up to five members of your team.
GamiCon ATX Preview Series
From Idea to Experience
AI-Powered Design That Learners Will Actually Remember
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Central
A Closed Preview Experience for GamiCon ATX Registrants + Game Garage Members
Curious what makes GamiCon ATX different?
This exclusive GamiCon ATX Preview Session gives you a behind-the-scenes look at how three GamiCon ATX speakers approach learning design. During this interactive three-hour experience, you'll explore practical AI workflows, creative design techniques, and strategies for transforming ideas into meaningful learning experiences.
You'll leave with ideas you can apply immediately while getting an authentic preview of the collaborative design experience waiting in Austin this September.
Here's the Catch...
The GamiCon ATX Preview Series is a closed experience. To participate, you must be registered for GamiCon ATX or be a Game Garage member.
Already registered for GamiCon ATX or a Game Garage member? You're in! Watch your email and member communications for your private access information.
Want to join us? You have two options. Register for GamiCon ATX and you'll receive access to the Preview Series, or become a Game Garage member with either a month-to-month membership or an annual membership that includes you and up to five members of your team.
GamiCon ATX Preview Series
From Complexity to Clarity
Designing Learning People Can Understand, Trust, and Apply
Thursday, September 3, 2026
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Central
A Closed Preview Experience for GamiCon ATX Registrants + Game Garage Members
Creating a great learning experience isn't just about having a creative idea. It's about making that idea clear, usable, and ready for the real world.
Join GamiCon ATX speakers Carriann Lane and Leah Carrubba for a three-hour interactive Toolbox Tutorial exploring how thoughtful design and AI can help you create learning experiences that are easier to understand, easier to build, and more likely to change performance.
Whether you're designing onboarding, compliance, technical training, leadership development, or game-based learning, you'll leave with practical ideas you can immediately put to work.
Here's the Catch...
The GamiCon ATX Preview Series is a closed experience. To participate, you must be registered for GamiCon ATX or be a Game Garage member.
Already registered for GamiCon ATX or a Game Garage member? You're in! Watch your email and member communications for your private access information.
Want to join us? You have two options. Register for GamiCon ATX and you'll receive access to the Preview Series, or become a Game Garage member with either a month-to-month membership or an annual membership that includes you and up to five members of your team.
AUGUST B&Bs
August 26
Build & Brew
A great game mechanic can solve more than one problem. Join Gamification Master Craftsman Michala Liavaag as we explore the art of reskinning games to support different business goals, audiences, and learning objectives. Learn how to adapt an existing game instead of starting from scratch, saving development time while creating experiences that feel fresh, relevant, and aligned with real organizational outcomes. Bring your favorite games and discover how a few thoughtful changes can create entirely new possibilities.
Reskinning Games to Drive Business Outcomes
Build & Brew with Michala Liavaag
Wednesday, August 26
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. CDT
The Brain Brew Café in Sententia World
One of the biggest mistakes learning professionals make is assuming every new challenge requires a brand-new game.
It doesn't.
Sometimes the smartest solution is taking a game that already works and giving it a new purpose.
Join Gamification Master Craftsman Michala Liavaag for an interactive Build & Brew exploring one of the most valuable skills in a gamification designer's toolbox: reskinning. You'll discover how an existing game mechanic can be adapted to support entirely different audiences, business goals, learning objectives, and organizational challenges without starting from a blank page.
Come learn how a few thoughtful changes can transform one great game into dozens of meaningful learning experiences.
SEPTEMBER B&Bs
September 9
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. CDT
LOVABLE with Jazmin Webster
What if you could turn an idea into a working application without writing traditional code? Join Gamification Master Craftsman Jazmin Webster for an introduction to Lovable, the AI-powered platform that's helping creators rapidly build interactive applications and prototypes. Discover how learning professionals can use Lovable to bring ideas to life faster, experiment with new concepts, and accelerate the design process, all while collaborating with fellow builders in the Brain Brew Café.
September 23
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CDT
GAMIFICATION DESIGN CLINIC
with Josh Yavelberg
Sometimes gamification works beautifully. Sometimes it falls flat. And sometimes it accidentally motivates exactly the behavior you didn't want. Josh Yavelberg will lead an interactive design clinic exploring why engagement strategies succeed, fail, and how thoughtful design decisions can transform mediocre experiences into meaningful ones. Final title and date will be announced soon.
LOVABLE
Build & Brew with Jazmin Webster
Wednesday, September 9
The Brain Brew Cafe in Sententia World
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. CDT
What if you could transform an idea into a working application without becoming a software developer? AI-powered development tools are making it possible to prototype, test, and refine ideas faster than ever before, and Lovable is leading the way.
Join Gamification Master Craftsman Jazmin Webster for an interactive Build & Brew exploring how Lovable can help learning professionals rapidly build interactive applications, prototypes, and learning experiences using natural language instead of traditional coding. Together, we'll explore practical ways to move from concept to creation, experiment with new ideas, and accelerate the design process.
This isn't a software demonstration or a coding class. It's an open conversation where we'll share ideas, explore possibilities, ask questions, and learn how AI-powered development tools are changing the way we design learning experiences.
Bring your ideas, your current projects, your curiosity, or simply a willingness to experiment. Whether you're completely new to AI-assisted app development or already building with no-code and low-code tools, you'll discover new ways to turn your ideas into reality.
Come see how Lovable can help you spend less time building code and more time building experiences.
Join Us Here
Go directly to The Brain Brew Cafe in Sententia World:
https://thebrainbrew.cafe/
When prompted, simply enter your name and join as a guest.
Build & Brew with Joshua "Doc" Yavelberg
Wednesday, September 23
The Brain Brew Café in Sententia World
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Central
What happens when gamification gets people to click, complete, collect points, or compete, but fails to create meaningful engagement or change?
Join Gamification Master Craftsman Josh “Doc” Yavelberg for a hands-on design clinic focused on the places gamification can go wrong and, more importantly, what we can do about it.
Bring a gamified experience that fell flat, felt forced, became too complicated, rewarded the wrong behavior, or simply stopped working. Together, we’ll look beyond the symptoms to diagnose what may actually be causing the problem, from motivation and participant needs to feedback, mechanics, measurement, and the environment in which the experience lives.
Then we’ll move from critique to repair.
You’ll explore alternatives to defaulting to points, badges, and leaderboards and consider mechanics such as meaningful choice, mastery, progress, collaboration, exploration, contribution, narrative, and feedback. Promising ideas will be stress-tested for fairness, accessibility, sustainability, administrative burden, and alignment with the behavior or outcome the design was intended to support.
Josh will also bring Tater into the session as a working partner to help capture patterns, organize the group’s thinking, and turn the conversation into a practical design brief.
This is not a presentation about what’s wrong with gamification. It’s a working session for people who want to make it better.
Bring a problem. Pull up a chair. Let’s diagnose it, rethink it, and see if we can repair it.
Toolbox Tutorials
Go Beyond the Basics with In-Depth, Member-Only Learning
Practical, hands-on workshops designed to help you master today's most valuable learning technologies and design techniques.
Toolbox Tutorial:
COMING THIS SEPTEMBER TO THE GAME GARAGE
Build Immersive Learning Worlds with Johanne Doty
What happens when learning stops feeling like a course and starts feeling like a world learners actually inhabit?
This September, Johanne Doty, Gamification Master Craftsman and creator of the immersive learning worlds Operation Shieldport and The Solis Campaign, will lead a special Toolbox Tutorial exploring how to design long-form narrative learning experiences that sustain engagement over weeks and months.
Participants will explore how role progression, recurring characters, mission structures, worldbuilding, and AI-supported interactions can transform asynchronous learning into deeply immersive experiences.
If you design online learning, simulations, onboarding programs, leadership development, or game-based learning experiences, this upcoming session will expand how you think about narrative, motivation, and learner engagement.
Registration information coming soon.
TOOLBOX TUTORIAL
Tuition: $99
Included in your Game Garage Membership
Toolbox Tutorial:
COMING THIS FALL TO THE GAME GARAGE
Master of Wizards: Designing Motivation Through Play, Challenge, and Game-Based Dynamics
Winner of Best Use of Technology
GamiCon48V 2026 Throwdown Showcase
Thiago Barrinuevo
What if engagement was not something you added at the end of a learning program?
What if it was built directly into the experience itself?
In this interactive Toolbox Tutorial, Thiago Barrionuevo will show participants how game-based dynamics can be used to create meaningful engagement without relying on gimmicks or superficial rewards.
Through a fast-paced experiential game and guided reflection, participants will explore how motivation, challenge, feedback, and decision-making influence human behavior and participation.
This session is designed to move beyond theory and help participants translate motivational principles into practical workplace applications.
TOOLBOX TUTORIAL
Tuition: $99
Included in your Game Garage Membership
Whether you design learning experiences, lead teams, facilitate workshops, or support organizational change, this session will give you practical tools for creating experiences people genuinely want to engage with.
Toolbox Tutorial:
Check Back: More practical, hands-on workshops are being scheduled for this fall.
If you’re looking to design an experience that fully draws learners in, we will show you how immersion can be used with intention.
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It's a vibrant hub where learning, innovation, and connection converge.
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Generosity: We are generous with our knowledge, our energy, and each other
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Risk: We are willing to take risks and step playfully into the unknown, knowing that we cannot learn without failing
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Respect: We respect our shared purpose, our time, each other’s uniqueness, and ourselves
Your invitation to join our community of practice.
We are a community of Learning Development Professionals focused on eliminating dull, dry, boring learning experiences.
Here at Game Garage, it's all about rolling up your sleeves and getting into the nitty-gritty of creating, running, and reflecting on your own game-based learning adventures.
You're not just learning; you're joining a bunch of game-changers eager to innovate and share in the world of educational gaming.
Plus, you've got a whole community backing you up, ready to cheer on your successes and help you tackle any challenges. Let's make learning an adventure together!
Are you curious to leave the beaten tracks of education and grow beyond what has been done before, but don't know where to start? This community gives space to everyone to learn, share, connect, and explore. Will you join us?
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Sententia is here for you and your career.
We are recruiting, educating, and equipping an alliance of education professionals who will change the way learning and training happen using the most advanced science and techniques coming from gamification and game-based learning.
In this effort, we want to ensure price isn't what hinders your career or the cause of more dull, dry, boring learning experiences. Feel comfortable reaching out to Jonathan Peters (bighead@SententiaGames.com) to discuss options.
Welcome to Sententia World!
We are more than just another community—it's a vibrant hub where learning, innovation, and connection converge.