Reverse-Engineering Models

Will Wright

1:52

Input and Output

Will Wright

2:09

Pong The Perfect Storm

Nolan Bushnell

0:49

Not Into Competition

David Cage

0:42

Making Controls Understandable

Matt Boch

1:23

Less Fail Modes Today

Todd Howard

1:30

Balance of Difficulty

Raph Koster

1:03

Ghost Behavior

Toru Iwatani

1:01

Feeling Pride

Tim Schafer

0:32

Gamification

Tim Schafer

1:02

Controlling Information

Will Wright

1:43

Opacity of Game Model

Will Wright

0:51

Sense of Accomplishment

Rob Pardo

0:49

Game vs. Sport

Richard Hilleman

1:38

Empowerment Fantasy

Cliff Bleszinski

0:39

Focus Testing

Stig Asmussen

1:29

Evolving Installments

Chris Avellone

1:27

People Love Patterns

Jenova Chen & Kellee Santiago

0:49

Pong Love Connections

Nolan Bushnell

0:55

Challenging Educators

Nolan Bushnell

0:40

The Controller

Nolan Bushnell

0:44

A Live Product

Dan Connors

0:59

Inspiration from Real Life

Toby Gard

0:38

How Control Affordances Apply to Games

Matt Boch

1:27

Know Your Tools

Matt Boch

1:54

Encouraging Diversity through Education

Tracy Fullerton

2:60

Game Mechanics Communicate Values

Vander Caballero

0:25

Getting More Out of a Game

Vander Caballero

1:00

Social Responsibility and the Design Commu...

Vander Caballero

1:49

Abstract Language of Games

Tracy Fullerton

2:44

Replay and Mastery

Tracy Fullerton

3:12

The Well Played Game

Tracy Fullerton

2:21

Enhancing Life through Games

Auriea Harvey

1:27

Camera Mechanics

Richard Hilleman

2:15

Playing to Understand

Clint Hocking

0:55

Evolving Language

Clint Hocking

1:29

Breaking the Rules

Clint Hocking

1:10

Physicality of Playing

Rod Humble

1:17

Never Done Anything Else

Rod Humble

0:31

400 Hours of Gameplay

Rod Humble

1:53

Win State

Rod Humble

0:52

Moderate Fantasy

Alex Hutchinson

2:01

Many Forms of Combat

Alex Hutchinson

1:19

Sims are like Roombas

Raph Koster

1:49

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

Wasted Data

Robin Hunicke

2:14

Gaming Encourages Curiosity

Robin Hunicke

1:49

Mechanics as Foundation

Robin Hunicke

1:22

Designing Backwards, from Aesthetics to Me...

Robin Hunicke

1:57

Learning about Yourself through Work

Davey Wreden

2:23

The Argument for Touch and Mouse Controls

Ron Gilbert

0:54

Elegant Gameplay Mechanics

Ron Gilbert

1:19

Driving Gamer Retention

Marie-Eve Vignola

1:30

Why Am I Playing This Game?

Marie-Eve Vignola

1:51

Stories Organize Learning

Jill Murray

1:09

Story vs. Game Mechanic

Don Daglow

1:38

The Value of Simplicity

Ryan Payton

0:26

Pitfalls In Control Scheme Complexity

Ryan Payton

1:31

Evolving Winning and Losing

Ryan Payton

1:12

Synergy Between Neuroscience and Gaming

Noah Falstein

1:32

Puzzles are a Strange Beast

Noah Falstein

2:33

Overlap Between Entertainment and Education

Noah Falstein

2:50

Interactivity Makes Education Sticky

Noah Falstein

1:22

Everyone Respects Elegence

Noah Falstein

1:24

Importance of Fascination

Tadhg Kelly

1:48

How Users Interact with Mobile Devices

Kayla Kinnunen

1:35

Different Types of Mobile Controls

Kayla Kinnunen

1:11

Platformer Controls for Mobile Games

Kayla Kinnunen

2:01

Supporting Multiple Input Devices

Anna Kipnis

2:06

Being Well-Rounded

Anna Kipnis

1:31

The Value of Play

Kim McAuliffe

1:02

Skill Set of Competitive Fighting Game Pla...

Patrick Miller

4:09

Growing up with an Arcade Stick

Patrick Miller

1:46

Conventions of Fighting Games

Patrick Miller

1:12

Character Control in a Fighting Game

Patrick Miller

1:24

Using Game Mechanics to Describe Depression

Zoe Quinn

0:56

Go Make a Game

Zoe Quinn

0:56

Using Verbs to Describe Game Mechanics

Matthew Weise

2:15

Narrative is World

Matthew Weise

3:21

Husband Mode

Brianna Wu

1:49

Emotional Mechanics of Gameplay

Brianna Wu

1:35

Social Issues in Games

Hideo Kojima

1:08

Making People Smarter

Frank Lantz

1:41

Most Games are Junk

Frank Lantz

1:47

The Play Remains the Same

Sid Meier

1:02

Satisfaction of Learning

Sid Meier

1:00

Game Breaking

Sid Meier

0:34

Reach Through the Glass

Peter Molyneux

1:59

We Create Variables

Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk

1:12

Expressing Power

Frank O'Connor

3:05

Interface is King

Randy Pitchford

3:45

More than a skill test

Randy Pitchford

1:49

Violence in Games

Randy Pitchford

6:05

Expanding the Imagination

Randy Pitchford

2:20

Interfaces and Controls

Amir Rao

1:41

Art Games

Jason Rohrer

2:44

Verbs transform players

Tim Schafer

1:17

Exemplary Games

Jesse Schell

2:23

Breaking the Rules

Glen Schofield

0:51

Gamification and Game Play

Harvey Smith

2:42

Game Systems

Harvey Smith

3:40

Consequences

Warren Spector

1:37

Player Empowerment

Warren Spector

1:12

What Emotions Do You Value

Joseph Staten

1:03

Connecting to Real World

Will Wright

2:27

Play vs. Storytelling

Will Wright

0:43

Chemical Reward for Completion

Susan Wu

0:42

Simplifying Control Systems

Laralyn McWilliams

1:57

Living in the World of Autosave

Laralyn McWilliams

1:11

Three Ingredients

Trip Hawkins

3:36

Teaching Parents that Games Have Value

Trip Hawkins

1:00

Value of Variability

Steve Gaynor

2:34

Discovering Rules of the World

Steve Gaynor

3:46

Creating Incentives

Steve Papoutsis

1:50

Design Rules

Steve Papoutsis

2:24

The End

Jordan Mechner

1:31

Most Powerful Medium

Richard Garriott

1:24

Personally-inspiring Game

Richard Garriott

2:05

Using Interface to Improve Immersion

Bei Yang

0:56

Programming Nuances in Controllers

Keiji Inafune

0:41

Presenting Challenges to Solve

Keiji Inafune

0:48

Competing and Winning Against Yourself

Keiji Inafune

0:49

Fewer Rules = Deeper Game

Yoshinori Ono

1:32

Pac-Man's Motivation

Toru Iwatani

1:08

Overcoming the Perception of Games as a So...

Trip Hawkins

1:37

Learning Power of Games

Trip Hawkins

1:58

Mechanics of Pac-Man

Toru Iwatani

1:39

CONTROLLERS

Wright Bagwell Matt Boch Nolan Bushnell David Cage N’Gai Croal Rod Humble Robin Hunicke Peter Molyneux Randy Pitchford Amir Rao Jason Rohrer Jesse Schell Will Wright

7:54

Modders Creating New Features

Christofer Sundberg

1:59

International Language of Fun

Patrice Désilets

0:58

Genre vs. Mechanics

Patrice Désilets

2:01

Pushing the Mechanics

Graham Smith

2:02

Porting to Mobile

Graham Smith

2:19

Mechanics as Tutorial

Graham Smith

1:25

Beyond Structure

Graham Smith

0:53

It Depends on the Player

Rob Pardo

1:01