Concept to Completion: Game Production Stories Creating games is an incredibly complicated process, and producers make it all run smoothly. How do you keep a team coordinated, especially when they might not share an office? How do you create and manage a schedule with...
Creating Effective and Efficient Art for XR Creating content for VR and AR (XR) is a challenge that is one part game logic, one part Hollywood movie magic. We’ll discuss our own history in developing XR assets as well as what pit falls and strategies we’ve...
Where's the parser? Interactive fiction in a voice only environment I love interactive fiction, and I was given an amazing opportunity to create one for the echo kids edition. I learned a ton and made a myriad of mistakes and from them gained a better understanding of...
Beyond the Tutorial: Improving Onboarding in Games with Scaffolding Learn the secrets of a student project out of Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center that revolutionizes onboarding for tabletop rpgs and discover how their scaffolding...
App-Integrated Board Games: Putting the "Tablet" in "Tabletop" While app-integrated board games push the boundaries of game design, they also come with their fair share of obstacles, both expected and unexpected. Join the designers that work on the app-integrated...