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Video: Fostering camaraderie in game communities from the ground up
by Staff [06.13.17]
Smash Sisters founders Emily Sun and Lil Chen take the stage at GDC 2017 to share practical learnings from their side events organized for women, by women in the Super Smash Bros. community.
Social/Online, Business/Marketing, Video, Vault
Video: How designers and programmers can work better, together
by Staff [06.12.17]
At GDC 2014, former Blizzard dev Brian Schwab took the stage to offer practical advice on how designers and coders can work together more effectively.
Console/PC, Indie, Programming, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Street Fighter V and the impact of art design in fighting games
by Staff [06.09.17]
At GDC 2017 Street Fighter V art director Toshiyuki Kamei spoke at length about Capcom's approach to art directing fighting games -- and how fighting games are, in turn, shaped by their art style.
Console/PC, Art, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Building game mechanics to elevate narrative in Oxenfree
by Staff [06.08.17]
At GDC 2017, Night Dive cofounder Sean Krankel delves deep into the design decisions the Oxenfree team made in the course of making a supernatural teen thriller about exploration and communication.
Console/PC, Indie, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley's postmortem of Civilization
by Staff [06.07.17]
Game industry luminaries Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley take the stage at GDC 2017 to present a Classic Game Postmortem on Sid Meier's Civilization and share their stories of making an enduring classic.
Console/PC, Programming, Art, Audio, Design, Production, Business/Marketing, History, Video, Vault
Video: The value of taking a narrative approach to level design
1 by Staff [06.06.17]
At GDC 2017 game designer Jolie Menzel shared some advice on how storytelling techniques can be applied to level design, drawing on her experience making games at Ubisoft and, before that, Telltale.
Console/PC, Indie, Design, Video, Vault
Video: A game dev guide to managing conflict on small teams
by Staff [06.05.17]
Finji cofounder and CEO Rebekah Saltsman takes the stage at GDC 2017 to share practical advice on how to handle conflict productively when you're working with a small team.
Console/PC, Social/Online, Indie, Production, Video, Vault
Video: Doing 2D game animation the Klei way
by Staff [06.02.17]
At GDC 2017 two Klei staffers deliver an extensive talk about all aspects of how the studio does in-game character animation, from character design to polished symbol-based animation.
Indie, Art, Video, Vault
Video: Swipe Rite - Crafting Reigns' elegant game mechanics
by Staff [06.01.17]
At GDC 2017, Nerial's Francois Alliot speaks to how bifurcation and wandering were essential to the code and the content of Reigns, aka "Tinder meets Game of Thrones", through its 6-month production.
Smartphone/Tablet, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Practical procedural generation for everyone
by Staff [05.31.17]
At GDC 2017 Tracery creator Kate Compton shares advice on how even proc-gen novices can build an algorithm powerful enough to make good stuff, yet flexible enough to adapt to your evolving dev needs.
Console/PC, Indie, Production, Video, Vault
Video: Forging the creative vision behind For Honor
by Staff [05.30.17]
At GDC 2017, Ubisoft's Jason VandenBerghe takes the stage to deliver a passionate presentation about the creative processes that propelled For Honor into production and guided everyone on the team.
Console/PC, Design, Production, Video, Vault
Video: Owlboy dev shares advice on staying motivated -- and inspired
1 by Staff [05.26.17]
At GDC 2017, D-Pad's Simon S. Andersen speaks about the trials and triumphs the team faced on their nearly decade-long dev cycle, offering fellow devs advice on how to get -- and stay -- inspired.
Indie, Production, Video, Vault
Video: A postmortem of Ska Studios' Salt & Sanctuary
by Staff [05.25.17]
Ska Studios' Michelle and James Silva speak at GDC 2017 about their journey to releasing Salt & Sanctuary, a 2.5D Souls-alike that was self-published across multiple platforms.
Indie, Art, Design, Production, Video, Vault
Video: Designing Chair Entertainment's Shadow Complex
by Staff [05.24.17]
At GDC 2010, Chair cofounders Donald and Jeremy Mustard speak openly about the pitfalls they encountered and the solutions they implemented while designing the seminal 'Metroidvania' Shadow Complex.
Indie, Design, Video, Vault
Video: How Slime Rancher succeeds through emergent storytelling
by Staff [05.23.17]
At GDC 2017, Monomi Park chief Nick Popovich speaks at length about the "secret sauce" that helped Slime Rancher's slimes capture so many players' hearts: the stories they helped the player tell.
Indie, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Lessons learned making Ark: Survival Evolved in Early Access
by Staff [05.22.17]
At GDC 2017, Studio Wildcard's Jeremy Stieglitz and Jesse Rapczak speak at length about Ark: Survival Evolved's dev strategy for Early Access on Steam, as well as Xbox and PlayStation 4.
Indie, Design, Production, Video, Vault
Video: We failed at publishing competitive games so you don't have to
by Staff [05.19.17]
At the GDC 2017 eSports Day Iron Galaxy chief Dave Lang showcases how the company tried (and mostly failed) to form a "competitive games" publishing label, sharing lessons learned along the way.
Console/PC, Indie, Business/Marketing, Video, Vault
Video: How Ensemble Studios crafted the terrain of Halo Wars
by Staff [05.18.17]
In this classic GDC 2009 talk, former Ensemble Studios developer Colt McAnlis provides a programming-driven look at how the studio built terrain for a console strategy game like Halo Wars.
Console/PC, Programming, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Designing conflict & high-tension moments in 'Secret Hitler'
by Staff [05.17.17]
As part of GDC 2017's Board Game Design Day, dev Mike Boxleiter offers a postmortem look at his work co-designing Secret Hitler, a Kickstarted tabletop game with some interesting social mechanics.
Indie, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Composing the music and sound of Hyper Light Drifter
by Staff [05.16.17]
At GDC 2017, audio wizards Akash Thakkar and Rich Vreeland (aka Disasterpeace) opened up about how they found the right soundscape for Hyper Light over the course of 3 years and countless revisions.
Indie, Audio, Video, Vault
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