We Create Variables

Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk

1:12

Agency vs. Story

Ernest Adams

2:16

Story Structure

Stig Asmussen

0:17

Fitting Story into MMOs

Jens Andersen

1:36

Eastern Storytelling

Chris Avellone

1:39

Approaches to Flow

Chris Avellone

1:37

Evolving Installments

Chris Avellone

1:27

Story vs. System

Ian Bogost

1:32

People Love Patterns

Jenova Chen & Kellee Santiago

0:49

Episodic Games

Dan Connors

1:00

No Character Depth

Dan Connors

1:40

Percentage of Players Finishing a Game

David Cage

1:29

Not Into Competition

David Cage

0:42

Sports Games Tell Stories

Richard Hilleman

0:21

Game Mechanics Communicate Values

Vander Caballero

0:25

Importance of Vision

Vander Caballero

1:02

Social Responsibility and the Design Commu...

Vander Caballero

1:49

Using Design Tools to Convey Emotion

Vander Caballero

1:23

The Well Played Game

Tracy Fullerton

2:21

Camera Mechanics

Richard Hilleman

2:15

Evolving Language

Clint Hocking

1:29

Omniscience

Todd Howard

0:54

Less Fail Modes Today

Todd Howard

1:30

Cut Scenes as a Reward

Todd Howard

1:44

400 Hours of Gameplay

Rod Humble

1:53

Moderate Fantasy

Alex Hutchinson

2:01

Many Forms of Combat

Alex Hutchinson

1:19

Open Mode Games

David Jones

0:41

Sims are like Roombas

Raph Koster

1:49

Fewer Cut Scenes in the Future

Ken Levine

1:34

Challenge of Storytelling

Rhianna Pratchett

1:30

Savvy Storytelling

Rhianna Pratchett

0:54

Stories Provide Momentum

Rhianna Pratchett

0:44

Working on a Sequel

Kiki Wolfkill

2:05

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

When the Game Comes Before the Story

Jill Murray

1:10

Stories Organize Learning

Jill Murray

1:09

Story Fighting Gameplay

Patrick Plourde

1:05

The Value of Simplicity

Ryan Payton

0:26

Evolving Winning and Losing

Ryan Payton

1:12

Don't Forget about Interactivity

Noah Falstein

0:58

Everyone Respects Elegence

Noah Falstein

1:24

Naturalism in Games

Tadhg Kelly

2:03

Story Emerging from Gameplay Experience

Anna Kipnis

1:59

Origin of Brutal Legend

Anna Kipnis

0:42

The Value of Play

Kim McAuliffe

1:02

Fighting Game Character Personality Quiz

Patrick Miller

2:30

Conventions of Fighting Games

Patrick Miller

1:12

When Tech Support Becomes Emotional Support

Zoe Quinn

1:05

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

Creating Theme Park Experiences

Bei Yang

1:10

Crafting Controlled Experiences

Bei Yang

2:03

Emotional Mechanics of Gameplay

Brianna Wu

1:35

Story vs. Interactivity

Hideo Kojima

0:53

Ghost Behavior

Toru Iwatani

1:01

The Play Remains the Same

Sid Meier

1:02

Reach Through the Glass

Peter Molyneux

1:59

Player Generates Narrative

Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk

2:07

Stories are Coincidence

Frank O'Connor

1:34

Art Games

Jason Rohrer

2:44

Feeling Pride

Tim Schafer

0:32

No "Should"

Tim Schafer

0:46

Verbs transform players

Tim Schafer

1:17

Fidelity and Emotion

Glen Schofield

1:17

Setting is Priority

Harvey Smith

1:21

Choice and Consequence

Warren Spector

0:57

Player Empowerment

Warren Spector

1:12

Making Game Accessible

Joseph Staten

1:18

Story vs. Persistent Game

Joseph Staten

1:37

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

The End

Jordan Mechner

1:31

Pac-Man's Motivation

Toru Iwatani

1:08

Mechanics of Pac-Man

Toru Iwatani

1:39

Modders Creating New Features

Christofer Sundberg

1:59

Other Disciplines Affect Narractive

Leah Hoyer

2:49

International Language of Fun

Patrice Désilets

0:58

Genre vs. Mechanics

Patrice Désilets

2:01

Putting the Player in Charge of the Story

Marcin Iwinski

1:41

Complexity of Open World

Marcin Iwinski

2:32

Adapting a "Holy" Book

Marcin Iwinski

2:30

Importance of Player Choice

Marcin Iwinski

1:50

Pushing the Mechanics

Graham Smith

2:02

Mechanics as Tutorial

Graham Smith

1:25

Beyond Structure

Graham Smith

0:53