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RESOURCES - Talks & Conferences

The following talks and conferences are references for students and professionals in creative media. They cover pretty much anything from large philosophical ideas to specific methods of production in video games or other industries.

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Game design

• 50 Game Camera Mistakes, by John Nesky

• A Game Designer Explains the Counterintuitive Secret to Fun, by Ian Bogost

• How To Make Your Game Just Completely Hilarious: The Stanley Parable, by William Pugh

• Loving game systems, by Mitu Khandaker-Kokoris

LEVEL DESIGN

• The Importance of Nothing: Using Negative Space in Level Design, by Jim Brown

STORYTELLING

• Everyone around you has a story the world needs to hear, by Dave Isay

• Heath Ledger about role playing, interview by Christine Spines

• The Future of Storytelling: How Medium Shapes Story, by Jesse Schell

STORYBOARDING

• Satoshi Kon - Editing Space & Time, by Every Frame a Painting

Game Production and development

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• Game History is in Your Hands, by Laine Nooney​

• Mad Skillz for Directing Dialogue, by DB Cooper

DESIGN

• Why city flags might be the worst designed things you've never noticed, by Roman Mars

MANAGEMENT

• As work gets more complex, 6 rules to simplify, by Yves Morieux

• Why the best hire might not have the perfect resume, by Regina Hartley

Social

• How to Subversively Queer Your Work, by Samantha Allen, Mattie Brice, Todd Harper, Christine Love, Zoe Quinn​

• On Empathy, by Brené Brown

• Strange answers to the psychopath test, by Jon Ronson

• The art of asking, by Amanda Palmer

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