Showing posts with label talks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label talks. Show all posts
Sunday, February 28, 2021

Updates from antipodes, year 2021

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Hey all, it's been a while. Here's a brief update on my life -- I've successfully moved to New Zealand and I currently reside in...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

We must cultivate our garden: games as personal history

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This post is based on a talk I gave at A MAZE Berlin 2019, as part of the Dev.olution "Games as Gardening" summit , as part of ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Lessons from Europe: fields reports from EGX Rezzed, Now Play This, and A MAZE Berlin

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I just came back from a games event tour through London and Berlin , where I had a lovely time meeting new people and catching up with old...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Radiator European Tour 2019 (London, Berlin, Milan) + Level With Me hiatus until April 17

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In April, I'm going to cram ~6 different events into a whirlwind week of travel through London and Berlin. What's wrong with me? Wh...
Saturday, March 16, 2019

GDC 2019 plans

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I'm already exhausted, just from looking at this picture Here's some of my GDC 2019 plans. The usual GDC disclaimers apply: GD...
Saturday, March 9, 2019

Why you should almost always localize your games

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screenshot from my game Rinse And Repeat, with a sexy shower hunk speaking in Russian subtitles This post is adapted from a talk I gave ...
Thursday, February 28, 2019

Panel for "Cruising Pavilion" at the Goethe-Institut in New York City, February 27 at 7 PM

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Some of my gay sex games are currently featured as part of the "Cruising Pavilion" at the Goethe-Institut's Ludlow 38 galle...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

WordHack, 7pm on Thursday, February 21 @ Babycastles, New York City

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WordHack is a monthly meetup / art thing hosted at Babycastles about the intersection of language and technology. "Code poetry, digi...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Notes on "Sparkling Dialogue", a great narrative design / game writing talk by Jon Ingold at AdventureX 2018

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My colleague Clara Fernandez-Vara pointed me towards this great game writing talk by Jon Ingold this year at AdventureX , an excellent ...
Friday, October 5, 2018

Queer Futures in Game Feel

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This post is adapted from a talk I gave at Queerness and Games Conference 2018 . Game feel is most known through indie game developer S...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

"Sex and Drugs and Video Games" at Nordic Game Jam 2018 - Friday, April 13th at 4:45pm

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This weekend I'll be in Copenhagen to speak during the opening program of the 2018 Nordic Game Jam on Friday, April 13th. The talk i...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

GDC 2018: How To Light A Level, slides and transcript

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This post is aimed at beginner / intermediate designers. It's a summary of the talk I gave at the GDC 2018 Level Design Workshop wi...
Thursday, January 25, 2018

Watch and/or Read "GDC 2015: Level Design Histories and Futures"

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GDC finally uploaded my talk from 2015 on level design history and futures ... and already, the conservative gamer-gestapo is whining abo...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

"Level Design Workshop: How to Light a Level" at GDC 2018

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Hey there. I'll be returning to GDC in 2018 with a talk called "How to Light a Level" ... Here's the blurb: Lighting is ...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

Call for submissions: Level Design In A Day at GDC 2018, due November 6th

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Steve Gaynor (before he changed his hair!!!) presenting on Gone Home at Level Design In A Day 2015. If you have something to say about l...
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Open world level design: spatial composition and flow in Breath of the Wild

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So, like much of game dev Twitter, I too saw Matt Walker's Twitter thread that summarized a CEDEC 2017 talk on how Nintendo built th...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

"Gay Science" at NYU Game Center, September 28, 2017 @ 7 PM

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if you look very closely, you'll notice Nietzsche's moustache / hair / ears are actually made of tiny gay people writhing around,...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

How To Tell A Story With A Video Game (even if you don't make or play games)

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This post is a summary of a talk I gave at Storycode NYC on August 22nd, 2017. All the slides are available here . It is a primer for story...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

StoryCode August 2017 Forum at Film Society, Lincoln Center, NYC

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Next week on August 22nd, I'll be giving a presentation for StoryCode , a local community group focused on immersive media and story...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Games exhibitions and talks in NYC and Vancouver, Oct 28 - Nov 2

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My new year's resolution for 2016 was to do fewer events and focus more on finishing my projects... so I guess that's why I'm do...