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Video: A classic postmortem of the trailblazing Ultima Online
by Staff [09.25.18]
In this 2018 GDC session, Raph Koster, Starr Long, Richard Garriott de Cayeux (Lord British himself) & Rich Vogel talk about the things that went wrong and right in making and running Ultima Online.
Social/Online, Programming, Art, Design, Production, Business/Marketing, Video, Vault
Video: Lessons learned from trying to gamify death
by Staff [09.19.18]
At GDC 2012, game dev Margaret Robertson explains how UK studio Hide&Seek was asked to make a documentary game about the discovery of a corpse in a busy London block of flats -- and what they learned.
Console/PC, Indie, Serious, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Surviving the transition from college to indie dev
by Staff [09.11.18]
At GDC 2018, noted indie developers Ted DiNola, Asher Vollmer and Jenny Jiao Hsia take the stage to offer their own stories about how they succeeded after (and during) college in different ways!
Indie, Production, Business/Marketing, Video, Vault
Video: How Ubisoft reinvented Rayman
by Staff [08.03.18]
In this GDC 2013 talk Anais Dusautois and Christophe Villez (animators on Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends) walk through the process of reinventing a classic franchise for modern audiences.
Console/PC, Art, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Watch top designers dissect a single system from their games
by Staff [08.02.18]
In this GDC 2015 talk game designers Bennett Foddy, Tanya X. Short, and Dan Cassar each took the stage to dive into a system from each of their games!
Console/PC, Indie, Design, Video, Vault
Video: How Plague Inc successfully jumped from mobile to Steam
by Staff [07.09.18]
At GDC 2015, Ndemic Creations' founder James Vaughan showcases the many challenges Ndemic faced in bringing its hit mobile strategy game Plague Inc to Steam.
Console/PC, Smartphone/Tablet, Production, Video, Vault
Video: Building the touchy-feely world of Media Molecule's Tearaway
by Staff [06.15.18]
At GDC 2013, Tearaway creative lead Rex Crowle described the challenges of designing and building a world that can flex, fold, tear and crumple under the fingertips of players.
Console/PC, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Building the coop-friendly levels of Dead Space 3
by Staff [06.12.18]
At GDC 2013, (now former) Visceral Games dev Seth Marinello explains how the team built Dead Space 3's levels and encounters to work for both one and two players in drop-in/drop-out cooperative play.
Console/PC, Design, Video, Vault
Video: How Media Molecule squashed its open bug counts
by Staff [06.05.18]
As part of GDC 2018's Tools Tutorial Day, Media Molecule's Amy Phillips showcased how the Tearaway and Dreams dev has built and iterated on a range of tools and tech that optimize its bug flow.
Console/PC, Production, Video, Vault
Video: A postmortem look at Rocket League's language ban system
by Staff [06.04.18]
Psyonix's Devin Connors delivers a great GDC 2018 Community Management Summit talk on the design and implementation of the language ban system in the studio's hit car soccer game Rocket League.
Console/PC, Social/Online, Indie, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Refining the game systems of Diablo III
1 by Staff [06.01.18]
At GDC 2013 Blizzard's Wyatt Cheng described different game systems that were attempted, explored, and then ultimately removed from the original release of Diablo III.
Console/PC, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Globally illuminating Tom Clancy's The Division
by Staff [05.31.18]
If you've ever wanted to know more about how the global illumination tech in Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's The Division works, this is the GDC Vault video for you.
Video, Vault
Video: How inequality (both real and virtual) shapes player behavior
by Staff [05.30.18]
At GDC 2018 game dev Julia Keren-Detar explored how inequality within game systems can change the behavior of players, and how studying these changes can help devs make better design decisions.
Serious, Design, Business/Marketing, Video, Vault
Video: Unproven game AI techniques that might just work
by Staff [05.29.18]
At GDC 2016 a cabal of game AI devs proposed pie-in-the-sky ideas that they've been unable to try, may never be able to try, and which may or may not even be feasible.
Console/PC, Indie, Programming, Video, Vault
Video: A practical guide to porting your indie game to consoles
by Staff [05.23.18]
At GDC 2018 PlayEveryWare's Thomas O'Connor shines a light on the technical and administrative work that goes into getting a console game out the door.
Console/PC, Indie, Production, Video, Vault
Video: A lawyer's guide to practical IP law for indies
by Staff [05.14.18]
Games lawyer Chris Reid returns to the stage at GDC 2018 to try and break down everything indies should know about intellectual property law (esp. copyrights and trademarks) in the game industry.
Indie, Business/Marketing, Video, Vault
Video: Inside the performance capture process for Infamous: Second Son
by Staff [05.07.18]
At GDC 2014 Sucker Punch's Spencer Alexander gives a great talk that delves deep into how the studio managed to create the remarkably lifelike facial animations at play in Infamous: Second Son.
Console/PC, Art, Production, Video, Vault
Video: Building the Just Cause 3 animation and rigging pipeline
by Staff [05.04.18]
At GDC 2018 Avalanche Studios Brian Venisky showcases the decisions and solutions made to solve key issues and serve the needs for creating animation content for the high-flying game.
Console/PC, Art, Production, Video, Vault
Video: How to build games that can be understood at a glance
by Staff [05.03.18]
At GDC 2018 indie dev Zach Gage (TypeShift, Really Bad Chess) gave a great talk about how important it is to think about how people will encounter your game -- right from day one of development.
Console/PC, Indie, Art, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Fizzy Brushstrokes - Crafting the art of Knights & Bikes
by Staff [05.03.18]
At GDC 2018, Foam Sword's Rex Crowle shares exactly how he created the striking visual style at play in the studio's upcoming co-op action-adventure game Knights & Bikes.
Indie, Art, Video, Vault
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