Event category: Sessions

Have you, an indie developer, ever felt that real human voices would infuse extra life into your unique, personal game – but figured voiceover was too expensive/mysterious/complex a component to add? Think...

We live in a continually abstracted digital age. The ways in which people are learning and making within this economy, the SF Bay Area in particular, is changing rapidly. Along with formal design and tech focused...

I’m interested in interrogating the use of violence as entertainment and how it intersects with designers’ ethics. We’ll get into a working definition of violence, how violence in games simplifies...

Canon formation is as contentious as it is necessary. To talk critically about gameplay, to understand what gameplay is and isn’t, and even to recognize when gameplay is new, requires us to build a vocabulary...

We often use the terms “videogame” and “game” interchangeably these days. And while it is true that videogames can certainly be games, it is important to note that they are not games in any exclusive way. Rather...