Narrative design

 

• Creating Strong Video Game Characters, by Jeremy Bernstein

• Designing Game Narrative, by Terence Lee

• Raising Atreus for Battle in God of War, by Hayato Yoshidome

• Weaving Narratives into Procedural Worlds, by Josh Ge

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Game design

 

• 3 Minute Game Design playlist, by Keith Burgun

• 50 Game Camera Mistakes, by John Nesky

• Blending Autonomy and Control: Creating NPCs for Tom Clancy’s The Division, by Philip Dunstan, Drew Rechner

• Boss Battle Design and Structure, by Mike Stout

• Designing Path of Exile to Be Played Forever, by Chris Wilson

• Game Design Dirty Little Secrets, by GD Keys

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

• How to Keep Players Engaged (Without Being Evil), by GMTK

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

• Kindness Coins, or Chemistry Casino: A New Take On Romantic-Sexual Narrative Design, by Michelle Clough

• Loving game systems, by Mitu Khandaker-Kokoris

• 'Magic: the Gathering': 20 Years, 20 Lessons Learned, by Mark Rosewater

• What Makes a Good Detective Game?, by GMTK

• Why Does Celeste Feel So Good to Play?, by GMTK

• Why was Pacifism FUN? Undertale Revisited, by Etra Games

• Writing Great Design Documents, by Damion Schubert (presentation slides)

 

LEVEL & Environment DESIGN

 

• Composition techniques and player direction, by Shape of Play

• Everything I Learned About Level Design I Learned from Disneyland, by Scott rogers

• How Level Design Can Tell a Story, by GMTK

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

• Urban Design and the Creation of Videogame Cities, by Konstantinos Dimopoulos

 

STORYTELLING

 

• The Artist is Absent: Davey Wreden and The Beginner's Guide, by Innuendo Studio

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

• Heath Ledger about role playing, interview by Christine Spines

• How To Explain Things Real Good  (Stanford mini-talk), by Nicky Case

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

 

Visual Storytelling

 

• 12 Principles of Animation, by AlanBeckerTutorials

• The 12 Principles of Animation in Games, by New Frame Plus

• Hyper Light Drifter - Visual Storytelling Done Right, by GazesAtStars

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

 

Game Production and development

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• A Deep Dive into the 12 Motivations: Findings from 400,000+ Gamers, by Nick Yee

• The Door Problem, by Liz England

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

• Mad Skillz for Directing Dialogue, by DB Cooper

 

UX & Product DESIGN

 

• The Gamer's  Brain: How Neuroscience and UX Can Impact Design, by Célia Hodent

• User Interface (UX) Techniques, by Janne Jul Jensen

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

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MANAGEMENT, career & Consulting

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

• Pricing Design Work & Creativity (The Guide), by Cris Do

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

 

Social, Psychology & Human studies

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• The art of asking, by Amanda Palmer

• Everything trailer, by Alan Watts and David OReilly

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

• Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny, by Raquel S. Benedict

• Addiction by design, by Natasha Dow Schull

• On Empathy, by Brené Brown

• The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg

• Strange answers to the psychopath test, by Jon Ronson

• Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman

 

 

 

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