Games are Art for Us

Marcin Iwinski

2:26

Evolving Language

Clint Hocking

1:29

Less Fail Modes Today

Todd Howard

1:30

Foreign Influences

Hideo Kojima

2:18

Art Games

Jason Rohrer

2:44

Player Empowerment

Warren Spector

1:12

Why Nostalgia is Successful

Ben Judd

1:45

Pushing the Mechanics

Graham Smith

2:02

Innovation vs. Predictability

Michael Condrey

1:47

Gender Assumptions in Mocap

Matt Boch

4:59

The Word "Game"

Chris Hecker

0:50

Empowerment Fantasy

Cliff Bleszinski

0:39

Winning and Losing

Ernest Adams

2:38

Graphics Snob

Stig Asmussen

1:31

Evolving Installments

Chris Avellone

1:27

Details vs. Big Picture

Wright Bagwell

3:27

Communication

Daniel Benmergui

1:36

Instant Empathy

Cliff Bleszinski

0:44

News Games

Ian Bogost

1:27

Understanding Social Issues

Ian Bogost

1:35

Creating a Vocabulary

Jenova Chen & Kellee Santiago

1:13

Forms of Success

Michael Condrey

1:16

Purity of 8-bit

Nolan Bushnell

0:56

I Supply the Plumbing

John Carmack

1:07

No Apologies

John Carmack

0:58

Percentage of Players Finishing a Game

David Cage

1:29

Not Into Competition

David Cage

0:42

Not Much Innovation

Toby Gard

2:15

Every Part is Art

Toby Gard

1:40

Wide Range of Emotions

Chris Hecker

1:7

Intention Doesn't Matter

Chris Hecker

0:39

Absence of Closure in Games

Vander Caballero

0:35

Game Mechanics Communicate Values

Vander Caballero

0:25

Importance of Cultural Perspective

Vander Caballero

1:48

Limited History of Games Allows for Innova...

Vander Caballero

0:53

Right Medium for my Story

Vander Caballero

1:28

Social Responsibility and the Design Commu...

Vander Caballero

1:49

Using Conventions in Niche Games

Brendon Chung

1:35

Impoverished Critical Language

N’Gai Croal

2:16

Reviews vs Criticism

N’Gai Croal

3:21

The Well Played Game

Tracy Fullerton

2:21

Unique Experiences

Auriea Harvey

1:28

Camera Mechanics

Richard Hilleman

2:15

Playing to Understand

Clint Hocking

0:55

I'm Not Going to get Wet

Clint Hocking

1:44

Beware of a Long Design Doc

Todd Howard

1:02

Cut Scenes as a Reward

Todd Howard

1:44

400 Hours of Gameplay

Rod Humble

1:53

Making it Fun

Alex Hutchinson

1:00

Character Personalities

Alex Hutchinson

1:19

Moderate Fantasy

Alex Hutchinson

2:01

Many Forms of Combat

Alex Hutchinson

1:19

Don't Define Play

Daniel James

1:52

Commercial Success

David Jones

0:33

Griefers

Daniel James

2:06

Killing Television

Daniel James

1:9

Sims are like Roombas

Raph Koster

1:49

British Cultural Influences

Siobhan Reddy

1:43

Player Participation

Kiki Wolfkill

1:04

Pervasiveness of Games

Eric Zimmerman

2:02

The Ludic Century

Eric Zimmerman

5:52

Wasted Data

Robin Hunicke

2:14

Mechanics as Foundation

Robin Hunicke

1:22

Is Gaming a Culture of Privilege?

Robin Hunicke

2:23

Designing Backwards, from Aesthetics to Me...

Robin Hunicke

1:57

Successful Enough to Make Another Game

Ron Gilbert

0:13

Elegant Gameplay Mechanics

Ron Gilbert

1:19

Comedy is Risky

Ron Gilbert

1:25

Driving Gamer Retention

Marie-Eve Vignola

1:30

Why Am I Playing This Game?

Marie-Eve Vignola

1:51

Developers Learning Culture

Dean Takahashi

0:37

The Game Industry Growing Up

Dean Takahashi

1:51

Player Empowerment

Don Daglow

1:16

Making Games for Over 40 Years

Don Daglow

1:18

Game Design as Extended Set Design

Don Daglow

1:30

Story vs. Game Mechanic

Don Daglow

1:38

The Ubisoft Mentality

Patrick Plourde

1:29

The Proximity to Danger

Patrick Plourde

1:37

Game Development in Quebec

Patrick Plourde

5:51

The Value of Simplicity

Ryan Payton

0:26

Japanese Gaming and Labors of Love

Ryan Payton

0:56

Inclusion Through Compromise

Ryan Payton

0:36

Finding the Fun in Stealth

Ryan Payton

1:06

Evolving Winning and Losing

Ryan Payton

1:12

Design Your Life like a Game Designer

Noah Falstein

2:48

Game Design Is like Cooking

Noah Falstein

2:48

Everyone Respects Elegence

Noah Falstein

1:24

Creative Potential of Games

Anna Kipnis

0:51

Success Related to Player Feedback

Kim McAuliffe

0:56

The Value of Play

Kim McAuliffe

1:02

The Nature of Fun in a Fighting Game

Patrick Miller

1:11

Conventions of Fighting Games

Patrick Miller

1:12

Game Design in Australia

Luke Muscat

2:07

Using Game Mechanics to Describe Depression

Zoe Quinn

0:56

The Alt Game Space

Zoe Quinn

2:26

Are Games Supposed to be Fun?

Zoe Quinn

0:35

Why Adaptations Fall Short

Matthew Weise

1:28

Using Verbs to Describe Game Mechanics

Matthew Weise

2:15

What Makes a Game Worth Creating

Ken Wong

0:35

What is Your Art Trying to Achieve

Ken Wong

0:52

The Value of Re-Working a Game

Ken Wong

2:32

Games That Challenge Us as Humans

Ken Wong

1:50

Commonalities Between Artforms

Ken Wong

1:59

Does Immersion Equate to Fun?

Bei Yang

1:29

Emotional Mechanics of Gameplay

Brianna Wu

1:35

Japanese Concept; To Please

Hideo Kojima

2:04

Ghost Behavior

Toru Iwatani

1:01

Most Games are Junk

Frank Lantz

1:47

User Generated Stories

Gabriel Leydon

2:11

Emulating Comic Books

Gabriel Leydon

0:46

Global Leader Board

Gabriel Leydon

2:04

Being the Hero

David Littman

1:23

Not Art Yet

David Littman

1:23

The Play Remains the Same

Sid Meier

1:02

Is it Work or Fun?

Sid Meier

0:51

Game Breaking

Sid Meier

0:34

Reach Through the Glass

Peter Molyneux

1:59

Maturing Criticism

Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk

0:54

We Create Variables

Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk

1:12

Engaging the Imagination

Frank O'Connor

3:25

Community Managers

Frank O'Connor

2:36

Our Citizen Kane Moment

Frank O'Connor

2:27

Toy vs. Game

Randy Pitchford

1:03

Unsatisfying Endings

Amir Rao

1:41

Photorealism

Jason Rohrer

1:45

Feeling Pride

Tim Schafer

0:32

Verbs transform players

Tim Schafer

1:17

Winning

Jesse Schell

2:00

Choice and Consequence

Warren Spector

0:57

Think Beyond "Fun"

Warren Spector

0:36

Artists Start Dialogues

Warren Spector

2:11

Making Game Accessible

Joseph Staten

1:18

What Emotions Do You Value

Joseph Staten

1:03

Connecting to Real World

Will Wright

2:27

Opacity of Game Model

Will Wright

0:51

Failure-Success Loop

Will Wright

1:30

Reverse-Engineering Models

Will Wright

1:52

Input and Output

Will Wright

2:09

Mastery Through Understanding Failure

Laralyn McWilliams

1:40

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

Taking Control of the Character

Josef Fares

0:36

Game Director with a Film Background

Josef Fares

0:42

Is There One True Path?

Steve Gaynor

1:08

Creating Incentives

Steve Papoutsis

1:50

Uncanny Valley as a Pitfall

Jordan Mechner

2:05

Dialogue

Jordan Mechner

0:35

Flow

Denis Dyack

1:11

Medium is Message

Denis Dyack

0:30

Most Powerful Medium

Richard Garriott

1:24

Personally-inspiring Game

Richard Garriott

2:05

Hard to Sell Stories

Richard Garriott

1:24

Hero's Journey

Richard Garriott

1:31

Making Innovative Japanese Games

Keiji Inafune

0:51

Competing and Winning Against Yourself

Keiji Inafune

0:49

Being Bound to Game Development

Keiji Inafune

0:40

Ultimate Play Tool

Yoshinori Ono

1:10

Player is #1

Yoshinori Ono

1:17

Not Enough History

Yoshinori Ono

1:36

Pac-Man's Motivation

Toru Iwatani

1:08

It's for the Players

Toru Iwatani

0:46

Overcoming the Perception of Games as a So...

Trip Hawkins

1:37

Mechanics of Pac-Man

Toru Iwatani

1:39

Water Cooler Talk

Vince Zampella

0:44

Soldiers of the Future

N’Gai Croal

2:29

Origin of Games Development in Sweden

Christofer Sundberg

0:57

Modders Creating New Features

Christofer Sundberg

1:59

Beautiful Worlds to Blow Up

Christofer Sundberg

0:38

Origin of Just Cause

Christofer Sundberg

1:33

Melting Pot of Games Writers

Leah Hoyer

1:54

Measuring Success

Leah Hoyer

2:49

Finding the Fun

Leah Hoyer

2:58

Real Sense of Place

Brian Allgeier

0:53

Just Playing

Brian Allgeier

0:43

What is Fun?

Patrice Désilets

1:30

The Success of Assassin's Creed

Patrice Désilets

2:03

Putting Yourself in the Player's Head

Patrice Désilets

1:36

Purpose Brings Success

Patrice Désilets

0:37

Genre vs. Mechanics

Patrice Désilets

2:01

Why Sequels are Successful

Marcin Iwinski

5:17

The Flawed Logic of Copy Protection

Marcin Iwinski

4:38

Risk and Reward of Localizing

Marcin Iwinski

3:57

Career Path through Localized Distribution

Marcin Iwinski

2:03

Working at Capcom

Ben Judd

1:57

The Plus One

Ben Judd

2:13

Role of the Japanese Producer

Ben Judd

1:31

Games Industry East vs. West

Ben Judd

2:58

Friction Creates the Best Products

Ben Judd

3:14

Growing Competition in Indie Development

Graham Smith

1:38

Mechanics as Tutorial

Graham Smith

1:25

Emotional Response Equals Success

Graham Smith

1:59

Beyond Structure

Graham Smith

0:53

Volunteer to Struggle

Peter Brinson

2:06

Columbine Game

Rob Pardo

1:22

Sense of Accomplishment

Rob Pardo

0:49

It Depends on the Player

Rob Pardo

1:01

Game Brand vs. Auteur

Rob Pardo

1:18

What Is Appealing About Games?

John Hanke

0:33

Can Educational Games Be Fun?

John Hanke

2:13

Success

Celia Hodent

1:22