Schools of Thought in Game Design

Steve Gaynor

2:05

Real Sense of Place

Brian Allgeier

0:53

Compromising with Your Publisher

Vince Zampella

0:50

Origin of Games Development in Sweden

Christofer Sundberg

0:57

Constraint drives Innovation

Raph Koster

1:59

Limitations of New Technology

Brendon Chung

1:34

Developing Ahead of Technology

Marcin Iwinski

2:02

Creating Atari Games Alone

Warren Robinett

0:54

First Person vs. Third Person

John Carmack

2:16

Always Building Something New

Patrice Désilets

3:06

Start with Player Experience

Ken Levine

1:14

MUDs

Susan Wu

1:28

Escalating Complexity in Next Gen Games

David Helgason

2:06

Measuring Success

Leah Hoyer

2:49

Streamlining Workflows for Collaboration

David Helgason

2:56

Connecting with Gaming Platforms

Graham Smith

1:08

Creating Charismatic Characters

Keiji Inafune

0:52

Working in QA

Raphael Colantonio

0:52

GIRLS LEVEL UP

Laila Shabir

8:37

A Heightened Version of Reality

Leah Hoyer

1:40

Don't Forget about Interactivity

Noah Falstein

0:58

Phases of Emotion

Davey Wreden

1:17

Crafting New Experience

Wright Bagwell

1:6

Porting to Mobile

Graham Smith

2:19

Negative Feedback

Yoshinori Ono

1:44

Accidental Art Style

Brendon Chung

1:51

Importance of Diversity in the Gaming Indu...

Siobhan Reddy

6:00

Puzzles Defining the Character

Ron Gilbert

1:10

The Driving Seat of a Different World View

Tadhg Kelly

1:32

Crafting Controlled Experiences

Bei Yang

2:03

Increasing Interaction With Tangible Things

John Hanke

1:14

Emotional Response Equals Success

Graham Smith

1:59

Games are Art for Us

Marcin Iwinski

2:26

Games Industry East vs. West

Ben Judd

2:58

Good Design is about Asking the RIght Ques...

Ken Wong

1:30

Graphics Get Boring

Gabriel Leydon

4:18

Healthy Fragmentation in the Games Industry

John Hanke

1:20

Designing and Directing

Wright Bagwell

3:40

Crafting Experiences with Your Tools

Siobhan Reddy

1:04

The Alt Game Space

Zoe Quinn

2:26

Putting Yourself in the Player's Head

Patrice Désilets

1:36

Drawing Inspiration from the World

Auriea Harvey

1:47

Financing Independent Games

Vander Caballero

1:36

Encouraging Diversity through Education

Tracy Fullerton

2:60

Fighting Game Character Personality Quiz

Patrick Miller

2:30

Artistic Process

Auriea Harvey

3:35

No Such Thing as Player Character

Tadhg Kelly

2:11

Different Design Approaches

Tracy Fullerton

1:15

Need for Technology That Gets Us Outside

John Hanke

1:01

Character Design as Expression

Robin Hunicke

3:14

Binary Choice Evoking Emotional Response

Davey Wreden

0:27

Be Careful Who You Go Into Business With

Christofer Sundberg

1:43

Number Crunchers

Ernest Adams

1:18

Never Compromise on Quality

Luke Muscat

1:20

Mechanics Match Character

Stig Asmussen

0:54

Cinematic Experience

Daniel Benmergui

1:48

Popular Games Are Compelling

Martzi Campos

1:45

New Technology Adds Complexity

Brian Allgeier

1:02

IP vs. Licensed

Jens Andersen

1:35

Best Games Are Both Simple and Complex

Keiji Inafune

0:47

Designers Need to Cross-pollinate

Laralyn McWilliams

1:15

The Ubisoft School of Thought

Patrice Désilets

3:25

Motifs of Gameplay

Siobhan Reddy

3:01

Emotions

Yoshinori Ono

1:16

Seeing Connections

Brendon Chung

1:30

The System Underlying the Experiment

Tracy Fullerton

2:8

It's Hard to be in the Game Industry

Brianna Wu

2:04

Every Part is Art

Toby Gard

1:40

Attraction of Farming

Wright Bagwell

1:18

Expanding Expression

Hideo Kojima

1:22

Deliberately Clunky Controls

Wright Bagwell

3:17

Making Connections

Gabriel Leydon

4:14

Practical Uses for VR

Warren Robinett

1:15

Why Nostalgia is Successful

Ben Judd

1:45

Photorealism

Jason Rohrer

1:45

Not About Technology

Jason Rohrer

3:34

Compromise

Amir Rao

0:53

Importance of a Character's Weaknesses

Leah Hoyer

2:42

Being Part of a Game World

Josef Fares

0:25

Metaphors of Human Existence

Brianna Wu

1:04

Player Expectation

N’Gai Croal

2:33

Evolving Installments

Chris Avellone

1:27

Third Person Perspective

Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk

0:46

Defining AAA Games

Alex Hutchinson

1:07

Pong The Perfect Storm

Nolan Bushnell

0:49

Creating Theme Park Experiences

Bei Yang

1:10

Investment in a Character Comes from Narra...

Patrick Miller

1:07

Personally-inspiring Game

Richard Garriott

2:05

Medium is Message

Denis Dyack

0:30

Independent Scene

Jason Rohrer

0:59

Power Fantasy is Easy

Chris Hecker

1:2

Importance of Diversity

Kiki Wolfkill

1:00

The Relative Health of the Game Industry

David Helgason

3:11

Secondary characters

Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk

2:14

Importance of Strong Characters

Leah Hoyer

3:29

Beautiful Worlds to Blow Up

Christofer Sundberg

0:38

Unique Experiences

Auriea Harvey

1:28

Pros and Cons of Going Independent

Brian Allgeier

1:24

I Supply the Plumbing

John Carmack

1:07

Creative Game Development

Siobhan Reddy

2:42

Exercising Your Brain with Game Jams

Kayla Kinnunen

1:58

Social Responsibility and the Design Commu...

Vander Caballero

1:49

Uncanny Valley as a Pitfall

Jordan Mechner

2:05

Avoidance of Heroing Game Directors

Tadhg Kelly

2:16

Advantages of Knowing Programming as a Gam...

Ron Gilbert

1:1

Design Your Life like a Game Designer

Noah Falstein

2:48

Absence of Closure in Games

Vander Caballero

0:35

Art Evokes Emotion

Kiki Wolfkill

1:18

Challenges of Working on Big Teams

Kayla Kinnunen

1:31

Making Tools for Real World Games

John Hanke

1:36

Teams Working Together

Siobhan Reddy

1:46

Balance in Writing for Games

Josh Scherr

2:24

Modders Creating New Features

Christofer Sundberg

1:59

Art Games

Jason Rohrer

2:44

Games as Singles

Alejandro Quan-Madrid

2:23

The Anxiety of a Big Budget

Christofer Sundberg

1:45

Friction Creates the Best Products

Ben Judd

3:14

Creating Creative Gaming

Siobhan Reddy

2:49

Putting Your Life into the Work

Davey Wreden

1:58

Coining Term "Avatar"

Richard Garriott

2:07

Wide Range of Emotions

Chris Hecker

1:7

Bored of Perfect Characters

Keiji Inafune

0:47

Design Based on Playtime Scales

Kayla Kinnunen

1:51

Working at Capcom

Ben Judd

1:57

Interactive Storytelling

Josef Fares

0:40

Creating Tension

Brian Allgeier

1:06

Empowerment Fantasy

Cliff Bleszinski

0:39

Communication

Daniel Benmergui

1:36

Visually Directing the Player

Patrick Plourde

4:56

Being a Level Designer

Amir Rao

1:58

Three Ingredients

Trip Hawkins

3:36

Types of Characters

Rhianna Pratchett

2:52

Different Fantasies

Ken Levine

1:43

The Legacy of Lucasarts

Noah Falstein

2:12

Writing from the Character’s Perspective

Jill Murray

1:35

The Latent Value of Game Tech Hobbyists

David Helgason

1:31

Value of a Game Design Document

Graham Smith

1:08

Games as Pleasure and Desire

Eric Zimmerman

3:32

Volunteer to Struggle

Peter Brinson

2:06

Aspiring goal

Denis Dyack

0:43

Innovation vs. Predictability

Michael Condrey

1:47

Emotions

Jesse Schell

1:30

The First Step in Game Design

Graham Smith

1:10

Being the Hero

David Littman

1:23

Technology Enhancing Real-Life Games

John Hanke

1:00

High Level Skeleton

Graham Smith

0:53

Everyone Is a Ghost in VR

Logan Olson

1:25

The Cure for Loneliness

Ben Judd

1:15

What is a Game Designer?

Patrice Désilets

1:45

Supporting Multiple Input Devices

Anna Kipnis

2:06

Humor in Games

Rhianna Pratchett

1:41

MMO Systems Designers

Laralyn McWilliams

0:59

The Burden of Profit

N’Gai Croal

1:00

Successful Innovation Comes from a Need, n...

Leah Hoyer

3:25

Game Brand vs. Auteur

Rob Pardo

1:18

The Proximity to Danger

Patrick Plourde

1:37

Challenges of a Growing Team

Michael Condrey

1:39

Treat Writer's Block with a Game Jam

Anna Kipnis

2:44

Chemical Reward for Completion

Susan Wu

0:42

Free to Play Model

Gabriel Leydon

2:34

Looking Glass Studios

Harvey Smith

2:15

Design Rules

Steve Papoutsis

2:24

Game Design in Australia

Luke Muscat

2:07

The Costs of Developing Your Own Engine

David Helgason

0:57

Players as Celebrities

David Jones

0:55

Removing Power from Players

Jill Murray

0:43

Making Game Accessible

Joseph Staten

1:18

When Tech Support Becomes Emotional Support

Zoe Quinn

1:05

Impoverished Critical Language

N’Gai Croal

2:16

Form is Liberating

Warren Robinett

1:34

Opportunity for Different Types of VR

Bei Yang

2:52

Why Sequels are Successful

Marcin Iwinski

5:17

Vision and Metrics

Don Daglow

2:17

Connecting to the Player

Sid Meier

0:50

Playing to Understand

Clint Hocking

0:55

Cut Scenes as a Reward

Todd Howard

1:44

What Emotions Do You Value

Joseph Staten

1:03

Mascots Maturing with their Audience

Brian Allgeier

1:02

Everyone Respects Elegence

Noah Falstein

1:24

Games vs. Groups

Gabriel Leydon

2:14

Choosing the Right Engine

Anna Kipnis

1:23

Character Control in a Fighting Game

Patrick Miller

1:24

Game Design Controls All the Verbs

Jill Murray

0:57

Overcoming the Perception of Games as a So...

Trip Hawkins

1:37

Inhabiting a Character

Kiki Wolfkill

1:07

The Sin of an Unbalanced Fighting Game

Patrick Miller

0:38

High Emotions in the Creative Process

Siobhan Reddy

0:55

Social Issues in Games

Hideo Kojima

1:08

Emotional Mechanics of Gameplay

Brianna Wu

1:35

The Unifying Power of Technology

Robin Hunicke

1:11

Escapism

Frank Lantz

1:09

Origin of Independent Games

Eric Zimmerman

1:28

Fallen in Love in MMO

Susan Wu

0:32

The Value of Understanding Multiple Discip...

Patrick Plourde

3:04

Games Are Rooted in Tech Culture

Archie Prakash

1:52

A Character's Purpose

Brian Allgeier

0:57

Communicating Emotion with Art Style

Patrick Plourde

0:25

How Do You Value Your Time?

Josef Fares

0:54

Games About Games

Steve Gaynor

2:38

Don't Blame Technology

Matthew Weise

1:24

Bonding Through Adversity

Susan Wu

0:44

Defining the Creative Process of Games

Tracy Fullerton

2:10

Player Generates Narrative

Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk

2:07

Leading the Way in Character Design Diversity

Brianna Wu

1:27

Pitching Game Ideas Internally

Graham Smith

2:01

Learning Power of Games

Trip Hawkins

1:58

Story vs. System

Ian Bogost

1:32

Dangers of a Closed Platform

Dean Takahashi

1:37

Intimate Subject Matter

Harvey Smith

2:24

Macro Plan

Brian Allgeier

0:43

Using Technology to Connect People

John Hanke

1:10

Advantages of Episodic Distribution

Patrice Désilets

3:20

Creating own Mythology

Will Wright

1:14

Feeling Pride

Tim Schafer

0:32

I'm Not Going to get Wet

Clint Hocking

1:44

Fidelity and Emotion

Glen Schofield

1:17

Various Company Approaches

Raphael Colantonio

2:52

Knowing When a Game is Special

N’Gai Croal

3:38

Beyond Structure

Graham Smith

0:53

Purity of 8-bit

Nolan Bushnell

0:56

Creating Fear

Steve Papoutsis

2:14

Computers the Size of Classrooms

Don Daglow

2:16

Producer as Cheerleader

Siobhan Reddy

0:57

Omniscience

Todd Howard

0:54

Using Game Mechanics to Describe Depression

Zoe Quinn

0:56

Sports Genre

David Littman

0:19

Ingredients of User Experience

Celia Hodent

1:50

Payment Models

Jens Andersen

3:37

Our Citizen Kane Moment

Frank O'Connor

2:27

Importance of Vision

Vander Caballero

1:02

Boring Characters

Zoe Quinn

1:07

The Elegant Design

John Carmack

1:32

Character Customization

Todd Howard

0:57

Games Beginning as a Bad Joke

Zoe Quinn

Role of the Art Director

Ken Wong

2:12

The Value of a Public Persona

Brianna Wu

1:03

Developing Tools for Game Developers

David Helgason

3:25

Taking Control of the Character

Josef Fares

0:36

The Play Remains the Same

Sid Meier

1:02

The First Easter Egg

Warren Robinett

1:45

No Game Design Document

Amir Rao

1:10

Creative Director's Role

Jens Andersen

1:25

Generative Design

Robin Hunicke

2:33

Similarities in Processes

Siobhan Reddy

1:12

Games That Challenge Us as Humans

Ken Wong

1:50

Diverse Spectrum of Games

John Carmack

1:30

No Investment in Writing

Dan Connors

1:17

Pac-Man's Motivation

Toru Iwatani

1:08

Connecting to Real World

Will Wright

2:27

Solid Prototypes

Wright Bagwell

1:49

Power Dynamics in Game Development

David Helgason

1:07

Addiction vs. Engagement

Jason Rohrer

1:13

Being Well-Rounded

Anna Kipnis

1:31

Rethinking Controls with Emerging Technology

Anna Kipnis

1:40

Creating a Frictionless Experience

Brendon Chung

1:20

Unpredictable Game Systems

Don Daglow

1:49

One-Sentence Pitch

Christofer Sundberg

1:51

Playtesting Depression Quest with Therapists

Zoe Quinn

VR 20 Years Ago

Warren Robinett

2:10

Sharing Consciousness with Characters and ...

Matthew Weise

1:59

No Character Depth

Dan Connors

1:40

Making Games for Over 40 Years

Don Daglow

1:18

User Experience

Steve Papoutsis

0:56

The Role of the Creative Director

Patrick Plourde

3:11

You're Not Just Making Assets

Vince Zampella

0:37

The Gold Box Engine

Don Daglow

1:24

Broadening of Medium

Kiki Wolfkill

2:05

Edge of the World

Todd Howard

1:57

Anchors in a Fantasy World

Siobhan Reddy

1:35

The Value of Re-Working a Game

Ken Wong

2:32

Customers as Guests

Bei Yang

1:32