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Laralyn McWilliams

Laralyn McWilliams is a game designer and video game producer. She was the Creative Director for FREE REALMS, an MMO with 20+ million players, and has been VP of Creative for iWin, Senior Producer for Sony Entertainment and was Game Director at Edge of Reality. She was listed as one of the top 10 game developers of 2014 by GamaSutra. She is currently the Chief Creative Officer at Skydance Interactive.

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The Player’s Bill of Rights

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Simplifying Control Systems

1:57

Self Expression in Leveling Systems

2:06

Scaling Development Costs

2:17

Questioning Best Practices

2:26

Procedural Storytelling

2:25

MMO Systems Designers

0:59

Mastery Through Understanding Failure

1:40

Living in the World of Autosave

1:11

Games as Creative Outlets

1:30

Friction-based Monetization: Paying to Make the Pain Go Away

3:38

Feeling like a Hero

1:42

Emergent Behaviors in MMOs

2:35

Designing for MMOs vs. Retail Games

1:36

Designers Need to Cross-pollinate

1:15

Chemistry of Interaction in MMO Design

1:03

Camera Control in Living Worlds

2:43