Presentations
Several presentations from speeches I've made.
Casual Connect, 2015
Natural Game Design: How to Birth Games Without Cloning. A video of my talk.
Casual Connect, 2013
Evil Game Design Challenge: Along with two other designers, I participated in the "evil game design challenge;" we were asked to retrofit Super Mario Brothers, one of the most beloved games in the world, as a free-to-play online game. After we each did so, the audience agreed that might version was indeed the most evil of the three.
Save the Whales: At the same conference, I have a talk in which I argued that the free-to-play industry's practice of shutting down games when they no longer are profitable enough to support a live team is short-sighted, and likely to lead players to cease paying for free-to-play game content in future.
Nordic Game Jam, 2011
Why Jam?: I was keynote speaker at the 2011 Nordic Game Jam; this was my presentation.
Digipen Lecture, 2010
Games are Uncertain: Argues that player uncertainty is core to the appeal of games, and analyzes several games for their sources of uncertainty.
GDC Austin, 2009
Randomness: Blight or Bane?: Analyzes how games use randomness in different ways, and argues that randomness is often useful in designing games, and should not always be eschewed.
92nd St Y Tribeca Games Program 2008
RPI Games Symposium 2008
Design for Serious Games: Why so many suck and how to design ones that don't.
SCAD Game Developers Exchange 2008
ACM Sandbox Videogame Symposium 2006
Designing Games for Process Intensity, or, Why Content Creation is Sucking Us Dry
Texas Indie Game Conference 2006
Austin Games Conference 2005
Fastaval 2005
Copenhagen ITU Lectures 2005
Learning Lab/Denmark 2005
Free Play Conference 2005
Austin Games Conference 2004
State of Play Conference 2004
Game Developers Conference 2002
Wireless Game Design: An overview of the strenghts and weaknesses of the medium.
Game Design Theory: A discussion of game design theory, referring but not limited to wireless games.
SMS Game Design: Designing games for SMS technology.
WAP Game Design: Designing games for WAP technology.
J2ME & BREW Game Design: Designing games for J2ME and BREW technology.
IIR London Online Games Conference, 2000
Wireless Games: Mass-market gaming through Internet-enabled mobile devices.
Online Games: The past through the future.
Making the Case: Business models for online games (with Jessica Mulligan).
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