Failure-Success Loop

Will Wright

1:30

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

Controlling Information

Will Wright

1:43

Opacity of Game Model

Will Wright

0:51

Input and Output

Will Wright

2:09

Pong The Perfect Storm

Nolan Bushnell

0:49

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

A Live Product

Dan Connors

0:59

Not Into Competition

David Cage

0:42

Inspiration from Real Life

Toby Gard

0:38

Making Controls Understandable

Matt Boch

1:23

Encouraging Diversity through Education

Tracy Fullerton

2:60

Game Mechanics Communicate Values

Vander Caballero

0:25

Social Responsibility and the Design Commu...

Vander Caballero

1:49

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

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

Elegant Gameplay Mechanics

Ron Gilbert

1:19

Driving Gamer Retention

Marie-Eve Vignola

1:30

Stories Organize Learning

Jill Murray

1:09

Story vs. Game Mechanic

Don Daglow

1:38

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

Importance of Fascination

Tadhg Kelly

1:48

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

Conventions of Fighting Games

Patrick Miller

1:12

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

Emotional Mechanics of Gameplay

Brianna Wu

1:35

Social Issues in Games

Hideo Kojima

1:08

Making People Smarter

Frank Lantz

1:41

The Play Remains the Same

Sid Meier

1:02

Satisfaction of Learning

Sid Meier

1:00

Game Breaking

Sid Meier

0:34

We Create Variables

Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk

1:12

Expressing Power

Frank O'Connor

3:05

More than a skill test

Randy Pitchford

1:49

Violence in Games

Randy Pitchford

6:05

Expanding the Imagination

Randy Pitchford

2:20

Art Games

Jason Rohrer

2:44

Gamification

Tim Schafer

1:02

Verbs transform players

Tim Schafer

1:17

Exemplary Games

Jesse Schell

2:23

Breaking the Rules

Glen Schofield

0:51

Game Systems

Harvey Smith

3:40

Consequences

Warren Spector

1:37

Player Empowerment

Warren Spector

1:12

Connecting to Real World

Will Wright

2:27

Play vs. Storytelling

Will Wright

0:43

Three Ingredients

Trip Hawkins

3:36

Teaching Parents that Games Have Value

Trip Hawkins

1:00

Discovering Rules of the World

Steve Gaynor

3:46

Design Rules

Steve Papoutsis

2:24

Most Powerful Medium

Richard Garriott

1:24

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

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

Mechanics as Tutorial

Graham Smith

1:25

Beyond Structure

Graham Smith

0:53

Sense of Accomplishment

Rob Pardo

0:49

It Depends on the Player

Rob Pardo

1:01