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Dec 15
Launch Day: The Emotional Cost Of Releasing a Game

In this 2021 Independent Games Summit session, Starcolt’s Lucy Morris explores the difficulty of releasing a game emotionally, the feedback and constructive criticisms that surround our development cycles, how we can improve those to work towards smoother releases, and how to manage the tough post-launch trough of cyclical negativity. We’ll also touch on the expectations […]

Dec 14
Building 'Zeta Halo': Scaling Content Creation for the Largest 'Halo' Ever

In this 2022 Technical Artist Summit session, 343 Industries’ Kurt Diegert and Mikael Nellfors discuss how building the first … source

Dec 13
How Parameters Drive the Particle Effects of 'Forza Horizon 5'

In this 2022 Visual Effects Summit talk, Playground Games’ Valentyn Minytskyi discusses the largest and most diverse world … source

Dec 12
Metaverse Games: State of Play and Opportunities

In this 2022 Future Realities Summit session, Omdia’s Dom Tait assesses and quantifiably ranks the main games contenders by … source

Nov 24
How to Run (and Survive) a Writers' Room

In this 2022 Game Narrative Summit talk, writer Antony Johnston shares how the writers’ room model can be adapted and used to benefit game writing; how to recruit the staff for such a room; and how to run it in a way that delivers the most creativity combined with best results for developers Head to […]

Nov 23
A Brave New (Virtual) World: Ethics and Governance of XR and the Metaverse

In this 2022 GDC talk, experts from academia, digital rights activists and industry leaders come together to discuss ethical issues regarding the Metaverse, and address the difficult question: Who will control the Metaverse? Head to GDC Vault (http://www.gdcvault.com) for the latest video-on-demand sessions from GDC 2022—with several GDC videos available to watch for free! Join […]

Nov 22
'Chicory' Marketing and PR Postmortem

In this 2022 GDC talk, Finji’s Rebekah Saltsman conducts a post mortem on the design of the PR and Marketing plan behind … source

Nov 21
Building Narrative Games with Yarn Spinner

In this 2021 Game Career Seminar talk, University of Tasmania, Secret Lab’s Mars Buttfield-Addison and Jon Manning cover how … source

Nov 20
Ask Me Anything: Q&A with Global Game Jam's Kate Edwards

In this 2021 GDC talk (taped live), Executive Director of the Global Game Jam and game culturalization pioneer Kate Edwards … source

Nov 19
Tips From the Trenches: How To Help Recruiters and Hiring Managers Get You In The Door

In this 2022 GDC talk, panelists paint a picture behind the scenes of the hiring teams that help coordinate candidates, sharing how … source