Tag: https://gdconf.com/

Jan 24
'Blackhaven' Postmortem: Designing Two Centuries of Difficult History in One Free Game

In this 2022 Game Narrative Summit talk, historian and lead developer Dr. James Coltrain reflects on how the Historiated team confronted challenges in historical sensitivity, representation, and narrative design to create a game emphasizing the lasting harms of American slavery. Strategies covered will include how Historiated used surviving artifacts and documents to ensure historical accuracy, […]

Jan 23
How Hollywood Cinematography Is Employed to Support Games' Cinematic Visualization

In this 2022 Animation Summit talk, The Third Floor Visualization’s Mitch Gonzalez takes a deep dive into how Hollywood cinematography is employed to support games cinematic visualization with a case study from a high profile and highly regarded game, Apex Legends. GDC returns to San Francisco this March 20-24, 2023, and registration is now open! […]

Jan 22
Creating Resonance with Thematic Tabletop Game Design

In this 2021 Board Game Design Summit talk, Sarah Shipp shares what makes tabletop games resonate with players, and how their themes can be tweaked to be even more resonant. GDC returns to San Francisco this March 20-24, 2023, and registration is now open! For more information, be sure to visit our website and follow […]

Jan 21
Kindness Coins, or Chemistry Casino: A New Take On Romantic-Sexual Narrative Design

In this 2022 Game Narrative Summit talk, Talespinners’ Michelle Clough dives into a new framework for writing and designing romantic/sexual content in games, with similar structure but more flexibility and more character/narrative weight than “kindness coins.” GDC returns to San Francisco this March 20-24, 2023, and registration is now open! For more information, be sure […]

Jan 20
IGF 2023: Marina Díez Host Announcement

Marina Díez reveals that she will host IGF 2023 in this video, which also includes highlights from last year’s Independent Games … source

Jan 16
Expanding Single-Player Games to a Multiplayer Experience with Discord

In this 2021 Community Management Summit session, Schell Games’ Adam Kuta shares how he uses Discord to create … source

Jan 15
What Being Neurodivergent Means in Game Development

In this GDC 2022 session, a diverse group of game developers share their experiences with neurodivergence while developing … source

Jan 14
Designing the Settlements in the World of 'Horizon Forbidden West'

In this 2022 Art Direction Summit session, Guerrilla’s Roland Ijzermans takes viewers on an in-depth journey from the initial … source

Jan 13
Avoid an Identity Crisis as a Technical Designer

In this GDC 2021 session, veteran AAA technical designers—who have helped build many of the games you’ve studied and played over the past 2 console generations—discuss what it is like bridging the gap between game design and engineering and how it differs from what you may expect. Head to GDC Vault (http://www.gdcvault.com) for the latest […]

Jan 12
Full-Body Animation Generation for Expressive NPCs

In this 2021 Machine Learning Summit talk, Netease’s Yu Ding describes a novel approach, relying on deep learning technologies, to automatically synthesize high-quality and life-like full-body animations for talking NPCs. 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 the GDC mailing […]