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Make Good Games Well

A month or so ago I gave a talk at the Montreal International Game Summit - it's the first public talk I've given in some time. Since it was a keynote, I stayed pretty high level, and didn't really give the usual hardcore top-to-bottom design talk. This talk - about the manufacture of chocolate, wine and a thermonuclear weapons - argues that we need to pay as much attention to the processes we use to make games as we do to the games themselves.

Slides and complete text of the presentation are here. As usual if you view the slides with notes on, you can follow the entire presentation beat-by-beat.

Sherbrooke

I had the pleasure of going out to Sherbrooke University yesterday to give a presentation there as part of their Série ExperTIse hiver 2006. Due to relatively short notice and the fact that I was preparing and practicing my GDC 2006 presentation in the same window, I gave the presentation that I had previously done for the Montreal Game Summit called 'Next - The Game Designers' Generation', which is linked to the right.

I think these kinds of industry-to-university presentations are increasingly important given the current explosive growth in the industry. Any opprotunity to open dialogue with those who will go on - not only to make games - but to study them as cultural artifacts - is invaluable.

Merci a professeur Denis Bélisle et son equip pour l'invitation, et merci egalement a chacun qui a ete la pour tolerer mon anglais. J'espere que si je suis invitee encore, je pourrai parler en francais.