Start with Player Experience

Ken Levine

1:14

Using Game Mechanics to Describe Depression

Zoe Quinn

0:56

Emotional Mechanics of Gameplay

Brianna Wu

1:35

Social Issues in Games

Hideo Kojima

1:08

Art Games

Jason Rohrer

2:44

Failure-Success Loop

Will Wright

1:30

Reverse-Engineering Models

Will Wright

1:52

Beyond Structure

Graham Smith

0:53

Pong The Perfect Storm

Nolan Bushnell

0:49

Empowerment Fantasy

Cliff Bleszinski

0:39

Number Crunchers

Ernest Adams

1:18

Focus Testing

Stig Asmussen

1:29

Evolving Installments

Chris Avellone

1:27

Communication

Daniel Benmergui

1:36

Responsibility

Jenova Chen & Kellee Santiago

0:31

Pong Love Connections

Nolan Bushnell

0:55

Challenging Educators

Nolan Bushnell

0:40

A Live Product

Dan Connors

0:59

Not Into Competition

David Cage

0:42

Every Part is Art

Toby Gard

1:40

Wide Range of Emotions

Chris Hecker

1:7

Intention Doesn't Matter

Chris Hecker

0:39

Power Fantasy is Easy

Chris Hecker

1:2

Making Controls Understandable

Matt Boch

1:23

Absence of Closure in Games

Vander Caballero

0:35

Encouraging Diversity through Education

Tracy Fullerton

2:60

Conscious Game Ideology

Auriea Harvey

1:35

Game Mechanics Communicate Values

Vander Caballero

0:25

Social Responsibility and the Design Commu...

Vander Caballero

1:49

Creating a Frictionless Experience

Brendon Chung

1:20

Objective-based vs Undirected Games

Brendon Chung

0:58

Making Interesting Problems

Tracy Fullerton

0:43

Replay and Mastery

Tracy Fullerton

3:12

The Good Mystery

Tracy Fullerton

1:31

The Well Played Game

Tracy Fullerton

2:21

Unleashing Passion in the Player

Tracy Fullerton

2:30

I Want to Make Worlds

Auriea Harvey

0:30

Are Goals Necessary?

Auriea Harvey

0:44

Enhancing Life through Games

Auriea Harvey

1:27

Unique Experiences

Auriea Harvey

1:28

Power of Sports Video Games

Richard Hilleman

0:56

Camera Mechanics

Richard Hilleman

2:15

Playing to Understand

Clint Hocking

0:55

Evolving Language

Clint Hocking

1:29

Less Fail Modes Today

Todd Howard

1:30

400 Hours of Gameplay

Rod Humble

1:53

Moderate Fantasy

Alex Hutchinson

2:01

Many Forms of Combat

Alex Hutchinson

1:19

Balance of Difficulty

Raph Koster

1:03

Sims are like Roombas

Raph Koster

1:49

Need More Culture

Ken Levine

1:31

Humor in Games

Rhianna Pratchett

1:41

Balancing Fun and Complexity

Siobhan Reddy

2:23

Creativity as a Mission

Siobhan Reddy

0:58

Playing is a Creative Exercise

Siobhan Reddy

1:38

Art Evokes Emotion

Kiki Wolfkill

1:18

Think Like Designers

Eric Zimmerman

2:22

Games as Pleasure and Desire

Eric Zimmerman

3:32

Every Game is a Language

Eric Zimmerman

7:21

Training Game Creators

Eric Zimmerman

1:16

Wasted Data

Robin Hunicke

2:14

Character Design as Expression

Robin Hunicke

3:14

Gaming Encourages Curiosity

Robin Hunicke

1:49

Mechanics as Foundation

Robin Hunicke

1:22

Designing Backwards, from Aesthetics to Me...

Robin Hunicke

1:57

Binary Choice Evoking Emotional Response

Davey Wreden

0:27

Putting Your Life into the Work

Davey Wreden

1:58

Learning about Yourself through Work

Davey Wreden

2:23

Phases of Emotion

Davey Wreden

1:17

Elegant Gameplay Mechanics

Ron Gilbert

1:19

Stories Organize Learning

Jill Murray

1:09

Vision and Metrics

Don Daglow

2:17

Story vs. Game Mechanic

Don Daglow

1:38

The Proximity to Danger

Patrick Plourde

1:37

Communicating Emotion with Art Style

Patrick Plourde

0:25

The Value of Simplicity

Ryan Payton

0:26

Evolving Winning and Losing

Ryan Payton

1:12

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

Everyone Respects Elegence

Noah Falstein

1:24

Being Well-Rounded

Anna Kipnis

1:31

The Value of Play

Kim McAuliffe

1:02

Conventions of Fighting Games

Patrick Miller

1:12

When Tech Support Becomes Emotional Support

Zoe Quinn

1:05

Go Make a Game

Zoe Quinn

0:56

Using Verbs to Describe Game Mechanics

Matthew Weise

2:15

Creating Theme Park Experiences

Bei Yang

1:10

Crafting Controlled Experiences

Bei Yang

2:03

Ghost Behavior

Toru Iwatani

1:01

Making People Smarter

Frank Lantz

1:41

Games vs. Groups

Gabriel Leydon

2:14

Making Connections

Gabriel Leydon

4:14

The Play Remains the Same

Sid Meier

1:02

Satisfaction of Learning

Sid Meier

1:00

Connecting to the Player

Sid Meier

0:50

We Create Variables

Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk

1:12

Player Generates Narrative

Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk

2:07

Expressing Power

Frank O'Connor

3:05

Our Citizen Kane Moment

Frank O'Connor

2:27

More than a skill test

Randy Pitchford

1:49

Violence in Games

Randy Pitchford

6:05

Expanding the Imagination

Randy Pitchford

2:20

Addiction vs. Engagement

Jason Rohrer

1:13

Gamification

Tim Schafer

1:02

Verbs transform players

Tim Schafer

1:17

Exemplary Games

Jesse Schell

2:23

Emotions

Jesse Schell

1:30

Fidelity and Emotion

Glen Schofield

1:17

Intimate Subject Matter

Harvey Smith

2:24

Consequences

Warren Spector

1:37

Player Empowerment

Warren Spector

1:12

What Emotions Do You Value

Joseph Staten

1:03

Controlling Information

Will Wright

1:43

Connecting to Real World

Will Wright

2:27

Play vs. Storytelling

Will Wright

0:43

Opacity of Game Model

Will Wright

0:51

Input and Output

Will Wright

2:09

MUDs

Susan Wu

1:28

Chemical Reward for Completion

Susan Wu

0:42

Bonding Through Adversity

Susan Wu

0:44

Fallen in Love in MMO

Susan Wu

0:32

Three Ingredients

Trip Hawkins

3:36

Teaching Parents that Games Have Value

Trip Hawkins

1:00

Interactive Storytelling

Josef Fares

0:40

How Do You Value Your Time?

Josef Fares

0:54

Creating Fear

Steve Papoutsis

2:14

Aspiring goal

Denis Dyack

0:43

Most Powerful Medium

Richard Garriott

1:24

Emotions

Yoshinori Ono

1:16

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

Modders Creating New Features

Christofer Sundberg

1:59

Driven by Emotion Over Technology

Brian Allgeier

0:28

Creating Tension

Brian Allgeier

1:06

International Language of Fun

Patrice Désilets

0:58

Genre vs. Mechanics

Patrice Désilets

2:01

Why Nostalgia is Successful

Ben Judd

1:45

The Cure for Loneliness

Ben Judd

1:15

Friction Creates the Best Products

Ben Judd

3:14

Pushing the Mechanics

Graham Smith

2:02

Mechanics as Tutorial

Graham Smith

1:25

Emotional Response Equals Success

Graham Smith

1:59

Volunteer to Struggle

Peter Brinson

2:06

Sense of Accomplishment

Rob Pardo

0:49

It Depends on the Player

Rob Pardo

1:01