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How to Write Games for the Internet without Embarrassing Yourself

Game Developers Conference
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In this 2018 GDC session, Game Grumps' Leighton Gray contextualizes the current cultural climate by deconstructing the art movements of the 20th century and break down the research and approaches used to make Dream Daddy a success. Register for GDC: https://ubm.io/2yWXW38 Join the GDC mailing list: http://www.gdconf.com/subscribe Follow GDC on Twitter:   / official_gdc   GDC talks cover a range of developmental topics including game design, programming, audio, visual arts, business management, production, online games, and much more. We post a fresh GDC video every day. Subscribe to the channel to stay on top of regular updates, and check out GDC Vault for thousands of more in-depth talks from our archives. ...more
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Art History

4:37

Post Modernism

5:31

Spread Ability

9:32

Meta Modernism

10:46

Shia Labeouf

13:03

Games That Are Postmodern

14:23

Post-Modernism

14:40

Sincerity Wrapped in Cynicism

16:35

Collapsing Distances

18:50

Writing Truthfully and Authentically

20:18

Character Introductions

21:25

Layered Identities

25:50

Radical Optimism

29:42

Mentalization Network

34:06

So You Kind Of Need To Be Tactful about It and Marketing Should Not Be Your Last Step It Should Be R First It Should Be an Ongoing Conversation throughout the Development Process Understand Who Your Game Is for What that Community Values and How Your Game Can Facilitate Subvert or Reinforce the Conversations People Are Already Having Going Back to this Slide I Want To Talk about Portability because I Think that's Arguably the Most Important Point on this List a Big Part of Getting an Idea To Travel on the Internet Is by Really Optimizing Its Portability this Often Boils Down to Nailing Your Elevator Pitch

38:13

What Were the Most Difficult Things To Research and How Did You Take some of the Things That You Mentioned You Talked like Couching Brain Fart Very Sincerity within Cynicism or within Silliness How Did that Inform Your Research like You To Go What Cynical Like Yeah Um I Think with Writing a Comedy Game the First Thing That We Figured Out and We Were Making the Big Flowcharts of like Here's How the Narrative Works and this Happens and this Happens like along with Figuring Out like Okay Here's the Basic Character Arc One of the First Things We Nailed Down for each Character Was like What Is the Emotional Core of this Story and Then Just Layering Lots and Lots of Jokes on It and Just Making Sure that like

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How to Write Games for the Internet without Embarrassing Yourself
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In this 2018 GDC session, Game Grumps' Leighton Gray contextualizes the current cultural climate by deconstructing the art movements of the 20th century and break down the research and approaches used to make Dream Daddy a success. Register for GDC: https://ubm.io/2yWXW38 Join the GDC mailing list: http://www.gdconf.com/subscribe Follow GDC on Twitter:   / official_gdc   GDC talks cover a range of developmental topics including game design, programming, audio, visual arts, business management, production, online games, and much more. We post a fresh GDC video every day. Subscribe to the channel to stay on top of regular updates, and check out GDC Vault for thousands of more in-depth talks from our archives.

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Game Developers Conference

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