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    I’m one of the author’s in the 2022 opdc (didn’t win anything, still trying to bear up under the shame…

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    Thank you for this very interesting collection, and for wrestling with the obviously mixed feelings on this anniversary. And thank…

Category: GDC

  • From Telefilm to Telemachus

    So I’ve been doing this for a couple months now and just never had the time to post about it. Telefilm Canada is running the Great Canadian Video Game Competition, which invites independent Canadian developers to propose projects and get funding for development. From all of the entries to the competition, the jury (which includes…

  • L’exploration

    So I had the opportunity to do a kind of trial run of my GDC presentation for the local Montreal IGDA Chapter last week. While I wasn’t super happy with it, it was really just a first draft, and I’ve been working on it on and off since. Should have a much better version in…

  • I Explore

    Sweet. My GDC 2007 presentation got accepted. It’s about exploration in games. Different kinds of it, how it works, what draws players into exploring, how to design to support it, and how to leverage it to broaden the expressive space of your game. This should be a challenging one. One of the things I love…

  • Intentionality vs Strategy

    Following my presentation at GDC, someone asked me the very compelling question, ‘What is the difference between Intentionality and Strategy?’ I thought this was a great question, and I did not have a ready answer, though I promised to explore the problem and come up with one. It’s a difficult question, and I wrestled with…

  • GDC 06 Materials Uploaded

    I know I promised them within 48 hours, but 60 hours will have to do. Sorry for the short delay. I expect to get around to posting my overview of the conference in general later this week – maybe in multiple parts. A couple of additional things related to this presentation will come soon as…