PAX East 2012 – Admit It – You Play Social Games. Let’s Talk About Them
Social games are like the HPV of the video games industry: At least 50% of us are infected, even if we show no symptoms. Unlink that awful sexually transmitted disease, however, social games don't...
PAX East 2012 – If I Hear “Gamificiation” One More Time I’m Going to Scream
Love it or hate it, if you haven't heard the word "gamification" this past year you must be dead. Or a zombie. Heck, it was a short-listed to be added as Oxford dictionary's "Word of the Year"! So...
Presented by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Fans of the Gears of Wars franchise will have a chance to get personal with Epic Games Design Director, Cliff Belszinski and President,...
An interpretive dance extravaganza!!!…or maybe this will be the Extra Credits crew talking game design, development and what more we can do with games. I guess you'll just have to show up to find...
Balancing games is deceptively difficult. Even worse, there are subtle reasons why even if a game is perfectly, mathematically, demonstrably balanced, players will likely have even LESS fun. From...
Presented at PAX West 2017, this panel on rage quitting is about how gamers quit, why they quit, and what quitting really means in game design. The table gets flipped. The healer sits down in spawn...
