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With disruptive technologies being introduced on a regular basis, the game industry has been changing at an ever increasing rate. Technologies like Virtual Reality are poised to change the future of the industry. Additional functionality like digital delivery and episodic content are changing the way games are being designed and produced. Crowd-sourced funding has also changed the publisher/developer relationship and is continuing to change the way developers start new projects and players purchase new games.

Jerry Belich - Jerry Belich is an alternative game designer, using hardware, electronics, and software to create immersive interactive and storytelling experiences. He went independent in 2013 after a decade of professional software development, now consulting for other indies and companies in game design, narrative writing, and installation work. His first hardware project, the award winning Choosatron, has traveled all over the world, featured at dozens of events, and sparked imaginations all along the way! He plans on continuing creating his own inventions and games, and hopes to help many others to do the same through his talks, workshops, and through openness of his own work.

Lisa Brown - Lisa Brown is an independent developer and the current Game Designer in Residence at Harrisburg University. She was formally a game designer at Insomniac Games and a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center. Since going indie, she has released several experimental personal games (Imaginal, Lisa vs. the Tornado) and livestreams game development and game design analysis to help others get better at making games. Lisa loves advising students, participating in game jams, and exploring alternative control schemes for games.

Jake Elliott - Jake makes games, music & artware. He is currently working with Tamas Kemenczy and Ben Babbitt on Kentucky Route Zero, a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway in the caves beneath Kentucky. With jonCates, he runs the internet radio station NUMBERS.FM. He lives in Elizabethtown, KY. (website: http://dai5ychain.net)

Ben Kuchera - Ben Kuchera is the senior opinions editor at the video game and | technology website Polygon.com, and has spent the past decade | reporting on virtual reality at such publications as Ars Technica, | Wired, and Penny Arcade. He lectures and moderates panels on the | emerging field of virtual and augmented reality around the world when | he's not spending time in his own basement VR lab.

What is Vector?
Vector is a game conference held at Eastern Kentucky University on April 30 in collaboration with the EKU Gaming Institute, the Richmond office of the Kentucky Innovation Network, RunJumpDev, and TechBase 10. Vector is a celebration of local developers, a well as a chance to network with leaders and peers in the field of game design and development.