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Video: Concrete practices to be a better game dev leader  
by Staff [02.14.19]
At GDC 2012 Bungie's Brian Sharp gives a great talk about how to lead well by doing two things: communicating effectively and maintaining perspective.
Console/PC, Indie, Production, Video, Vault
Video: How to invite player creativity through game mechanics  
by Staff [02.13.19]
At GDC 2017 game designer Holly Gramazio shares a dozen different ways games can encourage player creativity, as well as some guidance on how to make your players feel comfortable being creative!
VR, Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Injecting originality into the music of Fallout  
by Staff [02.12.19]
At GDC 2017 veteran composer Inon Zur takes the stage to explain how Bethesda's Fallout games gained their distinctive soundscapes, and how game makers can inject originality into their soundtracks.
Console/PC, Audio, Video, Vault
Video: Designing games to better support player expression  
by Staff [02.07.19]
Tiger Style's Randy Smith speaks at GDC 2011 about a key game dev issue: how do you design a great game that gives players room to express themselves creatively?
Console/PC, Indie, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Building better relationships with your players  
by Staff [02.05.19]
Players are people too, and in this GDC 2017 talk Big Viking Games' Jacob Van Rooyen offered fellow devs some useful advice on nurturing fruitful relationships with the people who play their games.
Console/PC, Social/Online, Indie, Business/Marketing, Video, Vault
Video: Swery's guide to lovable game design  
by Staff [02.01.19]
Swery takes the stage at GDC 2011 (a year after Deadly Premonition) to talk through his game design process, and how he goes about trying to create appealing characters and narratives.
Console/PC, Indie, Design, Video, Vault
Video: How Obsidian built Pillars of Eternity by looking back while moving forward  
by Staff [01.31.19]
At GDC Europe 2016 Obsidian's Josh Sawyer looks at Pillars of Eternity's origins, and how Obsidian went about trying to update the RPG genre while paying tribute to the games that inspired it.
Console/PC, Design, Video, Vault
Video: King's guide to level design for casual games  
by Staff [01.30.19]
King's Jeremy Kang takes the stage at GDC Europe 2016 to deliver a rare look at how King (Candy Crush Saga) goes about designing levels for its various free-to-play mobile games.
Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Design, Video, Vault
Video: A game dev's guide to designing great tutorials  
by Staff [01.29.19]
Can you design a tutorial so good your players don't know they're in it? Those Awesome Guys' Nicolae Berbece thinks so, and in this GDC Europe 2016 talk he explores how to pull it off.
VR, Console/PC, Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Inside the design of the app-integrated board game Mansions of Madness  
by Staff [01.28.19]
In this GDC 2018 talk,  Fantasy Flight Games' Andrew Fischer shares what the design team learned while making the app-assisted cooperative board game Mansions of Madness: Second Edition!
Smartphone/Tablet, Indie, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Carving out a successful freelance career in game audio  
by Staff [01.09.19]
At GDC 2018, experienced audio professional Akash Thakkar breaks down the process of successfully freelancing in video game audio, exploring everything from finding high-quality work to setting rates.
Console/PC, Indie, Audio, Video, Vault
Video: Inside the AI design of Dishonored 2  
by Staff [11.28.18]
At the GDC 2017 AI Summit, Arkane's Laurent Couvidou and Xavier Sadoulet explain how the AI of Dishonored 2 was designed to pit players against challenging, crafty, and yet outwittable foes.
Console/PC, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Playing with Pride -- When game culture & LGBTQ culture collide  
by Staff [11.27.18]
In this GDC 2018 talk, documentarian Matt Baume shares interviews with a wide array of LGBTQ devs and players to help you better understand the needs and challenges of players in the LGBTQ community.
Console/PC, Indie, Art, Design, Business/Marketing, Video, Vault
Video: An apology for Roger Ebert 6
by Staff [11.09.18]
Loom creator Brian Moriarty takes the stage at GDC 2011 to deliver a thoughtful defense of critic Roger Ebert's industry-stirring sentiment that 'video games can never be art.'
Console/PC, Indie, Art, Video, Vault
Video: BioWare's postmortem look at the making of Star Wars: The Old Republic  
by Staff [10.12.18]
At GDC 2012, BioWare Austin leads Richard Vogel and Dallas Dickinson share how Star Wars: The Old Republic positioned itself to break into the World of Warcraft-dominated MMO game market.
Social/Online, Design, Production, Video, Vault
Video: A design-centric approach to developing characters & stories  
by Staff [10.11.18]
At GDC 2011, veteran game designer Matthias Worch delivers a great talk that examines how game makers can more effectively reconcile developer-defined and player-derived character identities.
Console/PC, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Building Brink's SMART parkour traversal system  
by Staff [10.05.18]
At GDC 2012 Splash Damage's Arne Olav Hallingstad, presents a detailed programmer-oriented overview of the freedom of movement implementation in the studio's 2011 multiplayer shooter Brink.
Console/PC, Programming, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Breaking the rules of game design  
by Staff [10.04.18]
At GDC 2012, Naughty Dog's Kaitlyn Burnell took to the stage to question conventional game dev wisdom and ask: when you learn to follow game design rules, when is it right to break them?
Console/PC, Indie, Design, Video, Vault
Video: A retrospective look at 'girl games' of the '90s  
by Staff [10.02.18]
At GDC 2018 devs Laura Groppe, Brenda Laurel, Jesyca Durchin Schnepp, Sheri Graner Ray & Ernest Adams revisit and deconstruct the whole genre of "girl games" that found success in the 1990s.
Console/PC, Design, Video, Vault
Video: Crafting the narrative of Reigns: Her Majesty  
by Staff [10.01.18]
At GDC 2018, Reigns: Her Majesty writer (and former Gamasutra editor) Leigh Alexander shared her own process for designing narratives that walk the tricky political tightrope of women's power.
Smartphone/Tablet, Design, Video, Vault