Failure-Success Loop

Will Wright

1:30

Input and Output

Will Wright

2:09

Game vs. Sport

Richard Hilleman

1:38

Pong The Perfect Storm

Nolan Bushnell

0:49

Evolving Installments

Chris Avellone

1:27

The Controller

Nolan Bushnell

0:44

How Control Affordances Apply to Games

Matt Boch

1:27

Know Your Tools

Matt Boch

1:54

Making Controls Understandable

Matt Boch

1:23

Game Mechanics Communicate Values

Vander Caballero

0:25

Social Responsibility and the Design Commu...

Vander Caballero

1:49

Abstract Language of Games

Tracy Fullerton

2:44

The Well Played Game

Tracy Fullerton

2:21

Camera Mechanics

Richard Hilleman

2:15

Evolving Language

Clint Hocking

1:29

Less Fail Modes Today

Todd Howard

1:30

Physicality of Playing

Rod Humble

1:17

400 Hours of Gameplay

Rod Humble

1:53

Moderate Fantasy

Alex Hutchinson

2:01

Many Forms of Combat

Alex Hutchinson

1:19

Sims are like Roombas

Raph Koster

1:49

Wasted Data

Robin Hunicke

2:14

Mechanics as Foundation

Robin Hunicke

1:22

Designing Backwards, from Aesthetics to Me...

Robin Hunicke

1:57

The Argument for Touch and Mouse Controls

Ron Gilbert

0:54

Elegant Gameplay Mechanics

Ron Gilbert

1:19

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

Everyone Respects Elegence

Noah Falstein

1:24

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

The Value of Play

Kim McAuliffe

1:02

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

Using Verbs to Describe Game Mechanics

Matthew Weise

2:15

Husband Mode

Brianna Wu

1:49

Emotional Mechanics of Gameplay

Brianna Wu

1:35

Ghost Behavior

Toru Iwatani

1:01

The Play Remains the Same

Sid Meier

1:02

Reach Through the Glass

Peter Molyneux

1:59

We Create Variables

Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk

1:12

Interface is King

Randy Pitchford

3:45

Interfaces and Controls

Amir Rao

1:41

Art Games

Jason Rohrer

2:44

Feeling Pride

Tim Schafer

0:32

Verbs transform players

Tim Schafer

1:17

Player Empowerment

Warren Spector

1:12

Connecting to Real World

Will Wright

2:27

Opacity of Game Model

Will Wright

0:51

Reverse-Engineering Models

Will Wright

1:52

Simplifying Control Systems

Laralyn McWilliams

1:57

Using Interface to Improve Immersion

Bei Yang

0:56

Programming Nuances in Controllers

Keiji Inafune

0:41

Pac-Man's Motivation

Toru Iwatani

1:08

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