Dan Norton

Biography

Dan Norton is a founding partner and lead designer at Filament Games. He specializes in crafting educational game design documents and storyboards that originate from learning objectives. He is proud to have designed games that cover everything from marine turtle ecology to constitutional amendments. Dan sees Filament as an opportunity to merge his lifelong love of games with his incessant quest for learning something new and interesting. He is a founding member of the GLS organization at the UW–Madison. Aside from games and game design, he enjoys bicycling, baking, killing dragons with his wife, and spending time with his incredibly stupid cats.

Sessions

• The Academic Guild: The Interdisciplinary Value of Ongoing Pwnage
  Wednesday, June 10

  2:00–3:00

  Main Lounge (2nd floor, Central)
• Resilient Planet: Mission 2
  Wednesday, June 10

  3:30–4:30

  Profile (2nd floor, East)
• Context and Impact in Games
  Thursday, June 11

  11:00–12:30

  Old Madison (3rd floor, East/Southeast)