Flash talks have become popular in the past several years as a short way to introduce a larger project. They are not unrelated to "elevator talks" in the past. An elevator talk (or elevator pitch) is a summary of your project that you can give during a single ride of an elevator when you happen to be trapped with a more senior colleague that you want to know about your work. An elevator talk/pitch is limited to 1-2 minutes.

The challenge in an elevator talk/pitch or flash talk is to distill what you are doing to the most important, interesting features. Flash talks have the added benefit of visuals to go with the pitch. A flash talk is typically limited to 3-4 minutes. The slides are provided to the moderator beforehand to be pre-loaded in sequence. Slides advance automatically every minute, enforcing the time constraint.

We have an 80 minute class and slightly fewer than 20 projects, leaving students with 4 minutes per project. You need to make a flash talk with exactly 4 slides, with the slides advancing every minute automatically. Look at your game and identify the four most crucial, interesting parts of the project that will explain them well and may distinguish them from what others are doing. You may write down what you are going to say with each slide and have note cards with you when you deliver your flash talk.

You will be graded on the following aspects of your talk:

• Visuals - you should have pictures, not just words
• Vocal delivery - Project your voice, speak clearly, and don't fidget
• Clarity - Did we leave feeling like we understood how your game will work?
• Vocabulary - Did you explain your game using the vocabulary of the course?
• Design - To what degree does your design reflect the design principles of this course?

Your slides can be in either PowerPoint or Google Slides format. You need to email them or a link to them to me (dmfranklin@uchicago.edu) by 11:59pm on Monday, December 2nd