Getting More Out of a Game

Vander Caballero

1:00

Why Am I Playing This Game?

Marie-Eve Vignola

1:51

Most Games are Junk

Frank Lantz

1:47

Gender Assumptions in Mocap

Matt Boch

4:59

Empowerment Fantasy

Cliff Bleszinski

0:39

Discouraging Griefers

Jens Andersen

1:31

No Apologies

John Carmack

0:58

Every Part is Art

Toby Gard

1:40

Wide Range of Emotions

Chris Hecker

1:7

Absence of Closure in Games

Vander Caballero

0:35

Unique Experiences

Auriea Harvey

1:28

Beware of a Long Design Doc

Todd Howard

1:02

Less Fail Modes Today

Todd Howard

1:30

Cut Scenes as a Reward

Todd Howard

1:44

Making it Fun

Alex Hutchinson

1:00

Don't Define Play

Daniel James

1:52

Griefers

Daniel James

2:06

Driving Gamer Retention

Marie-Eve Vignola

1:30

Player Empowerment

Don Daglow

1:16

Making Games for Over 40 Years

Don Daglow

1:18

The Proximity to Danger

Patrick Plourde

1:37

Removing Barriers

Ryan Payton

1:38

Finding the Fun in Stealth

Ryan Payton

1:06

Puzzles are a Strange Beast

Noah Falstein

2:33

The Nature of Fun in a Fighting Game

Patrick Miller

1:11

Are Games Supposed to be Fun?

Zoe Quinn

0:35

What Makes a Game Worth Creating

Ken Wong

0:35

Does Immersion Equate to Fun?

Bei Yang

1:29

Is it Work or Fun?

Sid Meier

0:51

Toy vs. Game

Randy Pitchford

1:03

Gamification

Tim Schafer

1:02

My Way Won

Glen Schofield

0:53

Gamification and Game Play

Harvey Smith

2:42

Think Beyond "Fun"

Warren Spector

0:36

What Emotions Do You Value

Joseph Staten

1:03

Failure-Success Loop

Will Wright

1:30

Chemical Reward for Completion

Susan Wu

0:42

Living in the World of Autosave

Laralyn McWilliams

1:11

Chemistry of Interaction in MMO Design

Laralyn McWilliams

1:03

Three Ingredients

Trip Hawkins

3:36

Value of Variability

Steve Gaynor

2:34

Creating Incentives

Steve Papoutsis

1:50

Uncanny Valley as a Pitfall

Jordan Mechner

2:05

The End

Jordan Mechner

1:31

Flow

Denis Dyack

1:11

Personally-inspiring Game

Richard Garriott

2:05

Presenting Challenges to Solve

Keiji Inafune

0:48

It's for the Players

Toru Iwatani

0:46

Beautiful Worlds to Blow Up

Christofer Sundberg

0:38

Finding the Fun

Leah Hoyer

2:58

Just Playing

Brian Allgeier

0:43

What is Fun?

Patrice Désilets

1:30

Putting Yourself in the Player's Head

Patrice Désilets

1:36

International Language of Fun

Patrice Désilets

0:58

Pushing the Mechanics

Graham Smith

2:02

Sense of Accomplishment

Rob Pardo

0:49

Can Educational Games Be Fun?

John Hanke

2:13