41: Avoid Feature Creep with Zachary Berenger
Zachary Berenger has been making video games for over 12 years and also, he has been making tutorials on youtube for over five years to help us Game Devs learn how to make great games and get us motivated. His youtube name is RealTutsGML and his website is...38: Internalize Measurement Within the Game with Adrian Bauer
Adrian Bauer is one of the designers the for independent game company called D-Pad Studio. The company that made the critically acclaimed Owlboy. He helps with support, testing, setting up maps, and polishing up the game. He also writes about design on Gamasutra....34: You Don’t Need A Computer To Design Games with Stone Librande
Stone Librande is the lead designer for Riot Games, has worked in the game industry for over 15 years on games such as SimCity, Spore, and Diablo 3. He also teaches game design courses at Carnegie Mellon University’s ETC program which stands for Entertainment...33: How Games Contribute to Civic Life with Benjamin Stokes
Benjamin Stokes is a civic media scholar and game designer at American University. Previously, he co-founded Games for Change, the movement hub for advancing social change with games. He was also the program officer at MacArthur Foundation which launched a learning...31: Players Needs to Know Why They are Doing Things with Andy Ashcraft
Andy Ashcraft has been in the game industry for nearly 20 years and now currently works at his company called Gaintsdance Game Design. His goal is to help you make better games based on your ideas and intellectual properties. Each task a player do should have a...26: Player Empathy – Play from the User Perspective with Bob Bates
Bob Bates has written, designed, produced over 45 games, with over six million units sold. He has written the book Game Design: The Art of Business of Creating Games, IGDA honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010, and he was the Chief Creative Officer at...25: It All Comes Down to Communication with Jeff Howard
Jeff Howard Jeff Howard is an associate professor of Game Development and Design at Dakota State University, where he specializes in horror and occult themes and mechanics in games. He is the author of Game Magic: A Game Designer’s Guide to Constructing Magic System...24: Sometimes Taking A Big Risk Pays Off with Francisco Gonzalez
Francisco Gonzalez is a writer and designer at Grundislav Games focused primarily on adventure games. His work include “A Golden Wake” and “Shardlight.” He is an instructor at Playcrafting NYC, teaching courses on topics such as adventure game...13: Decide Your Pay Model As Soon As Possible with Catt Small
Catt Small is a product designer, game maker, and developer. She is one-third of Brooklyn Gamery, a Brooklyn-based game development studio that also organizes diversity-focused game jams and events. She also co-founded Code Liberation, a non-profit that teaches people...12 Ted Aronson: Games with Social Impact
Ted Aronson. Playing video games can be very beneficial. It can make learning fun, improve our mind and body, and create social impact. Ted gives us pointers on how to make games focused on health and education. YOU’LL LEARN Your content needs to make sense and...11 Dave Rohrl: Never Ever Release a Game You’re Not Proud Of
Dave Rohrl joins us today to give us incredible value about game design. Be proud of the work you do, play test early and often to learn those mistakes then quickly improve, and remember that every feature in the game should carry its own weight. Release your game...
