Meet Leah

Leah Carrubba combines coaching, game design, and artificial intelligence to create learning experiences that continue long after formal instruction ends. Her work demonstrates how AI can dramatically accelerate the creation of meaningful learning games while maintaining strong instructional design principles.

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Leah Carrubba
Sales & Partner Enablement Senior Manager | Equinix

Tuesday, September 15
10:45 AM - Noon

Build a Game with AI: From Concept to Playable System

You have strengthened your learning experience. Now explore how AI can help you add the mechanics, interactions, and reinforcement needed to make it more gameful.

In this hands-on session, Leah will demonstrate how AI can rapidly generate game mechanics, question cards, graphics, reinforcement systems, player choices, and other elements that support meaningful learning. Using the GROW coaching model as one practical example, she will show how separate activities can be connected to create a more cohesive and replayable learning system.

Working alongside AI, you will explore mechanics, develop card or question content, refine rules, generate visual assets, and prototype additions to your project. You will decide which elements strengthen your design and which ones would simply add complexity.

You will continue working on the Make It Better side of your Make It Real Blueprint by documenting the improvements you make and considering how your experience could extend beyond a single event to support continued practice and performance.

By the end of this session, you will have used AI to prototype at least one new mechanic, interaction, or reinforcement strategy that strengthens your learning experience and supports continued application.

What You'll Build

Great learning doesn't always end when the class ends.

During this session, you'll explore how to expand your design into an ongoing system that encourages practice, coaching, reflection, reinforcement, and continued learner engagement.

By the end of this session, you will: 

• Build a repeatable game system. 
• Create AI-generated game cards. 
• Design reinforcement strategies. 
• Generate artwork and game components.
• Extend learning beyond a single event. 
• Strengthen your Make It Real Blueprint. 

Where This Fits in Your Journey

Your prototype works.

Now you'll explore how to extend that experience beyond a single learning event by creating systems that encourage continued practice and application.

AI in This Session

Bring the AI assistant you already know and use. The prompts, workflows, and design techniques you'll experience throughout GamiCon ATX are designed to work across today's leading AI assistants, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, and others, allowing you to use the tools that best fit your work.

During this session, you'll use AI to:

• Create question cards. 
• Generate game artwork. 
• Brainstorm mechanics. 
• Prototype board and card games. 
• Develop reinforcement systems. 
• Expand learning activities.