Balance of Difficulty

Raph Koster

1:03

Failure-Success Loop

Will Wright

1:30

Reverse-Engineering Models

Will Wright

1:52

Pong The Perfect Storm

Nolan Bushnell

0:49

Focus Testing

Stig Asmussen

1:29

People Love Patterns

Jenova Chen & Kellee Santiago

0:49

Pong Love Connections

Nolan Bushnell

0:55

Challenging Educators

Nolan Bushnell

0:40

A Live Product

Dan Connors

0:59

Inspiration from Real Life

Toby Gard

0:38

Making Controls Understandable

Matt Boch

1:23

Encouraging Diversity through Education

Tracy Fullerton

2:60

Replay and Mastery

Tracy Fullerton

3:12

Enhancing Life through Games

Auriea Harvey

1:27

Playing to Understand

Clint Hocking

0:55

Breaking the Rules

Clint Hocking

1:10

Less Fail Modes Today

Todd Howard

1:30

Never Done Anything Else

Rod Humble

0:31

Win State

Rod Humble

0:52

Need More Culture

Ken Levine

1:31

Think Like Designers

Eric Zimmerman

2:22

Every Game is a Language

Eric Zimmerman

7:21

Training Game Creators

Eric Zimmerman

1:16

Rules Facilitate Play

Eric Zimmerman

3:41

Gaming Encourages Curiosity

Robin Hunicke

1:49

Learning about Yourself through Work

Davey Wreden

2:23

Driving Gamer Retention

Marie-Eve Vignola

1:30

Stories Organize Learning

Jill Murray

1:09

Synergy Between Neuroscience and Gaming

Noah Falstein

1:32

Overlap Between Entertainment and Education

Noah Falstein

2:50

Interactivity Makes Education Sticky

Noah Falstein

1:22

Importance of Fascination

Tadhg Kelly

1:48

Being Well-Rounded

Anna Kipnis

1:31

Skill Set of Competitive Fighting Game Pla...

Patrick Miller

4:09

Go Make a Game

Zoe Quinn

0:56

Narrative is World

Matthew Weise

3:21

Social Issues in Games

Hideo Kojima

1:08

Ghost Behavior

Toru Iwatani

1:01

Making People Smarter

Frank Lantz

1:41

Satisfaction of Learning

Sid Meier

1:00

Game Breaking

Sid Meier

0:34

Expressing Power

Frank O'Connor

3:05

More than a skill test

Randy Pitchford

1:49

Violence in Games

Randy Pitchford

6:05

Expanding the Imagination

Randy Pitchford

2:20

Feeling Pride

Tim Schafer

0:32

Gamification

Tim Schafer

1:02

Exemplary Games

Jesse Schell

2:23

Breaking the Rules

Glen Schofield

0:51

Game Systems

Harvey Smith

3:40

Consequences

Warren Spector

1:37

Play vs. Storytelling

Will Wright

0:43

Opacity of Game Model

Will Wright

0:51

Input and Output

Will Wright

2:09

Three Ingredients

Trip Hawkins

3:36

Teaching Parents that Games Have Value

Trip Hawkins

1:00

Discovering Rules of the World

Steve Gaynor

3:46

Design Rules

Steve Papoutsis

2:24

Most Powerful Medium

Richard Garriott

1:24

Fewer Rules = Deeper Game

Yoshinori Ono

1:32

Overcoming the Perception of Games as a So...

Trip Hawkins

1:37

Learning Power of Games

Trip Hawkins

1:58

Sense of Accomplishment

Rob Pardo

0:49

It Depends on the Player

Rob Pardo

1:01