Guest of Honour

Jay Dragon

Guest of Honour, Jay Dragon

Jay Dragon is a queer disabled TTRPG game designer located in Philadelphia (USA). She writes games about community, liminality, and the magic of the mundane, and is best known for her work on Wanderhome, Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, and the perpetually-upcoming Seven-Part Pact. She also enjoys painting minis, reading theory, and falling in love.

Avery Alder

Guest of Honour, Avery Alder

Avery Alder is an award-winning tabletop role-playing game designer hailing from Treaty 6 territory. For the past nineteen years, Avery has been designing games about queer identity, relationships, community, precarity, and the end of the world. Her work includes The Quiet Year, Monsterhearts, Dream Askew, Ribbon Drive, and Going For Broke. Her love of game design has also led her into teaching, workshop facilitation, and design consulting.

Alara Cameron

Guest of Honour, Alara Cameron

Alara Cameron is a board game designer and developer from Ontario, Canada. She often works with intellectual properties, and strives to provide players the opportunity to explore and experience their favourite worlds. Her focus in design and development is on cultivating experiences that create links between the actions players take in the game, the narrative the game presents, and the emotional arc of play. Some of her recent design credits include Grendel: The Game of Crime and Mayhem, Kingdom Rush: Elemental Uprising, and Gods of Midgard.