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Game Developer
APRIL 18, 2024
This updated 5th edition brings deeper coverage of playcentric design techniques, including setting emotion-focused experience goals and managing the design process to meet them. It includes a host of new diverse perspectives from top industry game designers.'
Game Developer
JULY 3, 2024
To fully integrate into a team and thrive, a game designer must develop soft skills and new skills that are not systematically offered in school training. This publication series aims to better prepare future game designers for their missions. I draw on my experience as a game designer, lead designer, and trainer.
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Game Developer
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
At GDCA 2024, Composer Yoko Shimomura will receive this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and game designer Fawzi Mesmar will receive the Ambassador Award.
Game Developer
AUGUST 15, 2023
Game Design Documents (GDD) have a long history and a different place in many designers' toolboxes. Here's how to write a useful, up-to-date GDD.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Mabel Addis will posthumously receive the Pioneer Award, which honors breakthrough business, tech, and game design milestones. The award-winning game designer, level designer, and programmer John Romero will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on iconic and genre-defining first-person shooters.
Game Developer
JULY 10, 2024
In the first part of this series of publications devoted to training game and level designers, I discussed the importance of soft skills, essential complements to know-how. I presented two skills that are essential to me. In this second part, I present two others to you.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
During her 30-year career in games, McWilliams worked on a number of games such as Gears of War 4, Free Realms, and Deal or No Deal.
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