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Aug 27
Open Salaries: Ensuring Equitable Pay Through Pay Transparency

What would happen if someone leaked one’s company’s full compensation information to their entire company? A growing … source

Aug 26
Advocacy Microtalks: Cultivate Your Karass

In this GDC 2023 talk, meet six game creators who are challenging what’s possible—advocating through their own work on how to expand the idea of what games can be and how they’re made. Some of these presentations are serious, some silly. Some will encourage you to engage with your community, others will encourage you to […]

Aug 25
The Design of HoloVista: Crafting Mechanics for Immersive Storytelling

In this GDC 2022 talk, lead designer Scott Jon Siegel walks through the collaborative design process that led to the new team’s award-winning first title, from their earliest meetings in a San Francisco coffee shop, to the design’s final mid-production, mid-pandemic pivots as they approached its 2020 release. Subscribe to the GDC newsletter and get […]

Aug 24
Occupational Burnout in Games: Causes, Impact, and Solutions

This series of GDC 2023 microtalks will offer attendees a foundational understanding of what burnout is and its causal factors … source

Aug 23
The Future of Game Communities, and How We Avoid It

From AAA games to Twitch micro-communities and NFT game Discords: Community management has come far over the past … source

Aug 22
'Dark Pictures: Season 1': 4 games in 4 years: Audio Systems for Narrative Horror

Annual releases of AAA content are rare in the industry, but that was Season One of the Dark Pictures Anthology. The studio audio … source

Aug 21
Creative Future with Artificial Intelligence

Combining the unique perspective of a veteran 3D artist and game developer, as well as a CEO of a generative AI company and a … source

Aug 20
Surviving 'Vampire Survivors': Agile Community Management

In this 2023 Community Management Summit talk, discover how the Community Manager for indie hit Vampire Survivors … source

Aug 19
Emergency Meeting! It's the 'Among Us VR' Postmortem

In this 2023 Future Realities Summit session, Jennifer Rabbitt (Lead Producer), Michal Ksiazkiewicz (Design Director), and … source

Aug 18
Being a Unicorn: Multiclassing in an Industry That Wants Specialization

The majority of job postings in games are for single roles: programmer, game designer, artist. Yet there are some people with … source