Teaser illustration by Brendan Monroe
Akilah Hughes speaking
For its fourth year, XOXO moved to Revolution Hall and built an outdoor stage for two nights of music, adding subsidized passes, live captioning, free childcare, and the XOXO Slack for staying connected year-round.
Interstitial animation by PMurphy
Lisa Hanawalt speaking
Recap
Videos
Lineup
Conference
Heather Armstrong
Dooce
Alex Blumberg
Gimlet
C. Spike Trotman
Iron Circus Comics
Carl Steadman, Joey Anuff, Heather Havrilesky, Ana Marie Cox & Tim Cavanaugh
Suck.com
Mallory Ortberg
The Toast
Anil Dash
Makerbase
Zoe Quinn
Crash Override
Eric Meyer
Meyerweb
Lisa Hanawalt
Artist/Illustrator
Nicky Case
Explorable Explanations
Bryce Roberts
Indie.vc
Akilah Hughes
It's Akilah, Obviously!
Rami Ismail
Vlambeer
Veronica Belmont
Host/Podcaster
Amit Gupta
Photojojo
Kathy Sierra
Serious Pony
Story
Hello from the Magic Tavern
You Look Nice Today
Suck Live
Reply All
Fray Cafe
Film & Animation
App: The Human Story
Jake Schumacher and Jed Hurt
Everything Is A Remix: Fifth Anniversary Remaster
Kirby Ferguson
Every Frame A Painting
Tony Zhou
Baman Piderman
Alex Small-Butera & Lindsay Small-Butera
Feminist Frequency
Anita Sarkeesian
Rick and Morty
Justin Roiland
Outerlands
Matt Chandronait and Ryan O’Donnell
Music
Phil Fish
Vulfpeck
NIKO IS
Dan Deacon
CVS Bangers: Live
Kawehi
Open Mike Eagle
Kaki King
Arcade
Donut County
Ben Esposito
Tacoma
Fullbright
GNOG
KO-OP Mode
Wattam
Funomena
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Steel Crate Games
Cibele
Nina Freeman
Firewatch
Campo Santo
Badblood
Winnie Song
Circa Infinity
Kenny Sun
Overland
Finji
BELOW
Capybara Games
Hyper Light Drifter
Heart Machine
TinderBox
Flint and Tinder Studios
The Moon is Dying & So Will You
Mackenzie Schubert & Charles Olson
Tabletop
The Metagame
Local No. 12
Bycatch
Subalekha Udayasankar
&maybetheywontkillyou
Akira Thompson
The Contender
John Teasdale & Justin Robert Young
Funemployed!
Anthony Conta
Deadbolt
Elizabeth Sampat
Two Rooms and a Boom
Tuesday Knight Games
Marrying Mr. Darcy: The Emma Expansion
Erika Svanoe
Werewolf / One Night Ultimate Werewolf
Patrons
Thank you to Blurb, Hover, Instrument, Knight Foundation, Mailchimp, Medium, NextDraft, Slack, Stripe, Wieden+Kennedy, and WordPress.com for sponsoring this year’s festival. XOXO would not be possible without their generous support.