MAGWest 2026

Join a ZUMBA™ session with high-energy dancing and moving your body to VGM + Latin hits! This is a fun, beginner-friendly activity for all dance levels and to share the joy of movement, rhythm, and energy as a community. Bring good shoes, water, and a sweat towel if needed.

Panelists: Brooke Ferd [ZIN Instructor/VGM Musician, www.brookeferdmusic.com]

TBA

When technology such as the CD-ROM and early CG arrived in the late 80s and early 90s, both Hollywood and Silicon Valley lost their collective minds with excitement over new creative possibilities and scrambled to collaborate together. A slew of movies featuring early CG were released, while Full Motion Video technology and high quality audio were core to the experiences of classic games such as Myst, Rebel Assault, the 7th Guest, and Wing Commander. Yet not all were successful; for every Myst, there was a Night Trap or a Sewer Shark. Join Rob Curl and Steve Horowitz to explore game and audio design in this era of “Sillywood”! The session will examine key titles from the period, including Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, which Horowitz worked on with Rocket Science Games, and analyze the distinctive aesthetics that emerged from the fusion of Hollywood production techniques and interactive media. The talk will also address why many of these ambitious projects became fascinating failed experiments, offering insight into the challenges of integrating live-action storytelling with early interactive technologies and what their legacy reveals for contemporary game design.

Panelists: Robert Curl [Museum Historian, www.themade.org] | Steven Horowitz [Professor of Music, Composer for Nick Studios, https://www.stevehorowitzmusic.com/]

Waluigi doesn't have his own game, but he has his own panel where he pays other people to talk about games he should have been in and how great he is.

Panelists: Foundation for the Eradication of Generation 5 Pokemon [https://linktr.ee/fifthgenisntpokemon]

As scions of the crystal, we have been searching the land far and wide for other Warriors of Light to help restore music to our distant worlds! Please lend us your trivia knowledge so we can put our background music, battles, and character themes in the correct games!

Team CWF returns to ALA. Who will triumph tonight? Help us decide!

Neopets is a shambling late-stage capitalism simulator cloaked in the guise of a “virtual pet website”, and it has been running for the past 26 years with absolutely zero economic regulation. Is there any way to fix this mess without inciting open class warfare between the Neopian bourgeoisie and the commoners who rely on their free daily omelette slice?

Please join us for an atrociously stupid presentation on the current state of the Neopian economy.

Fellow Warriors of Light, you've traveled to far off lands, fought foes threatening the very fabric of this star, striving endlessly for ever greater heights. Perhaps you seek a moment of respite, a quiet, peaceful opportunity to take it slow and drink in the sights. Just you, your rod, the crisp summer morning air, the sun cresting over the horizon, an alarm clock going off at 4 AM, an unreasonable number of spreadsheets, and a deep seated feeling of torment and despair. You stare into the deep inky waters. You see nothing but an abyss. You see a reflection of yourself. Fishing is not for the faint of heart, but together we can chart a course through these treacherous and terrible waters.

Welcome to the True Endgame. Fishing has Raidplans too.

This panel will not contain story spoilers, but will contain references to locations visited through the most recent expansion, Dawntrail.

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BORN TO FISH
WORLD IS A LAKE
Reel Em All 2025
I am FSH main
410,757,864,530 CAUGHT FISH

Panelists: Al'fyn Apothica [Not Relevant But Software Engineer] | Sink [Not Relevant]

Are you dying (repeatedly) to get into Dark Souls and other Souls-likes? Take it from me, someone who can’t play games past easy mode. This panel is here for you with tips beyond “getting good.”

Panelists: Rangoon

Schedule Description: A twist on Mario Kart Live - it's not just that it's smash bros instead, it's audience participation! Bring your instrument (or borrow one of ours!) and honk along with us :) We'll sight-read simplified arrangements of smash bros music like Break the Targets and Jungle Japes while other guests duke it out. Sheet music and stands provided, and we'll have a bunch of extra instruments to lend out. No instrument? No problem - we'll have assorted brass instruments to lend out, and of course we'll need smash players as well, so come thru!!