Driving Gamer Retention

Marie-Eve Vignola

1:30

Ghost Behavior

Toru Iwatani

1:01

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

International Language of Fun

Patrice Désilets

0:58

Pushing the Mechanics

Graham Smith

2:02

Gender Assumptions in Mocap

Matt Boch

4:59

Evolving Installments

Chris Avellone

1:27

People Love Patterns

Jenova Chen & Kellee Santiago

0:49

No Apologies

John Carmack

0:58

Not Into Competition

David Cage

0:42

Inspiration from Real Life

Toby Gard

0:38

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

Game Mechanics Communicate Values

Vander Caballero

0:25

Social Responsibility and the Design Commu...

Vander Caballero

1:49

The Well Played Game

Tracy Fullerton

2:21

Enhancing Life through Games

Auriea Harvey

1:27

Unique Experiences

Auriea Harvey

1:28

Camera Mechanics

Richard Hilleman

2:15

Evolving Language

Clint Hocking

1:29

Breaking the Rules

Clint Hocking

1:10

Beware of a Long Design Doc

Todd Howard

1:02

Cut Scenes as a Reward

Todd Howard

1:44

Never Done Anything Else

Rod Humble

0:31

400 Hours of Gameplay

Rod Humble

1:53

Win State

Rod Humble

0:52

Making it Fun

Alex Hutchinson

1:00

Moderate Fantasy

Alex Hutchinson

2:01

Many Forms of Combat

Alex Hutchinson

1:19

Don't Define Play

Daniel James

1:52

Griefers

Daniel James

2:06

Balance of Difficulty

Raph Koster

1:03

Sims are like Roombas

Raph Koster

1:49

Rules Facilitate Play

Eric Zimmerman

3:41

Wasted Data

Robin Hunicke

2:14

Mechanics as Foundation

Robin Hunicke

1:22

Designing Backwards, from Aesthetics to Me...

Robin Hunicke

1:57

Elegant Gameplay Mechanics

Ron Gilbert

1:19

Why Am I Playing This Game?

Marie-Eve Vignola

1:51

Player Empowerment

Don Daglow

1:16

Making Games for Over 40 Years

Don Daglow

1:18

Story vs. Game Mechanic

Don Daglow

1:38

The Proximity to Danger

Patrick Plourde

1:37

The Value of Simplicity

Ryan Payton

0:26

Finding the Fun in Stealth

Ryan Payton

1:06

Evolving Winning and Losing

Ryan Payton

1:12

Everyone Respects Elegence

Noah Falstein

1:24

Importance of Fascination

Tadhg Kelly

1:48

The Value of Play

Kim McAuliffe

1:02

The Nature of Fun in a Fighting Game

Patrick Miller

1:11

Skill Set of Competitive Fighting Game Pla...

Patrick Miller

4:09

Conventions of Fighting Games

Patrick Miller

1:12

Using Game Mechanics to Describe Depression

Zoe Quinn

0:56

Are Games Supposed to be Fun?

Zoe Quinn

0:35

Using Verbs to Describe Game Mechanics

Matthew Weise

2:15

Narrative is World

Matthew Weise

3:21

What Makes a Game Worth Creating

Ken Wong

0:35

Does Immersion Equate to Fun?

Bei Yang

1:29

Emotional Mechanics of Gameplay

Brianna Wu

1:35

Most Games are Junk

Frank Lantz

1:47

The Play Remains the Same

Sid Meier

1:02

Is it Work or Fun?

Sid Meier

0:51

Game Breaking

Sid Meier

0:34

We Create Variables

Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk

1:12

Toy vs. Game

Randy Pitchford

1:03

Art Games

Jason Rohrer

2:44

Feeling Pride

Tim Schafer

0:32

Verbs transform players

Tim Schafer

1:17

Breaking the Rules

Glen Schofield

0:51

Game Systems

Harvey Smith

3:40

Think Beyond "Fun"

Warren Spector

0:36

Player Empowerment

Warren Spector

1:12

Controlling Information

Will Wright

1:43

Connecting to Real World

Will Wright

2:27

Chemistry of Interaction in MMO Design

Laralyn McWilliams

1:03

Three Ingredients

Trip Hawkins

3:36

Discovering Rules of the World

Steve Gaynor

3:46

Design Rules

Steve Papoutsis

2:24

Uncanny Valley as a Pitfall

Jordan Mechner

2:05

Flow

Denis Dyack

1:11

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

It's for the Players

Toru Iwatani

0:46

Mechanics of Pac-Man

Toru Iwatani

1:39

Modders Creating New Features

Christofer Sundberg

1:59

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

Genre vs. Mechanics

Patrice Désilets

2:01

Mechanics as Tutorial

Graham Smith

1:25

Beyond Structure

Graham Smith

0:53

Can Educational Games Be Fun?

John Hanke

2:13