GDC Courses

Extra Lives - The World's First Audience RPG Live Experience

Immersive Audience RPG blends narration, visuals, and live music with audience choices, creating a nostalgic gaming experience with multiple storylines and endings.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

From Pitch to Pancakes - How Bear and Breakfast Blended Genres to Succeed

Explore the journey of 'Bear and Breakfast', a genre-blending game, from concept to launch. Learn how mixing management and adventure elements created a unique niche, overcoming challenges in development and marketing.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Finding Your Creative Voice Through Game Jams

Discover how game jams can help developers cultivate their creative voice and professional edge, essential for aspiring creative leads in game development. Learn strategies to overcome the "credibility trap" and advance your career.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Modernizing Rendering at Supercell

Explore Supercell's journey in implementing a new core rendering framework and adapting billion-dollar games like Clash of Clans to utilize the innovative system.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

A Moderation Guide for Successful Brand Livestreams and Digital Events

Comprehensive guide for brands on moderating livestreams and digital events, covering business case, safety issues, and practical implementation strategies for successful online engagement.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Growing an Internet Cult - Cult of the Lamb's Social Strategy

Explore how 'Cult of the Lamb' leveraged meme-able moments, iconic art, and social media analytics to build a culturally relevant gaming brand and grow an engaged community.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

You Have No Idea How Hard It Is To Run a Sweatshop

Explore game design's impact on society, intentionality in creation, and the power of games to convey messages. Delve into diverse topics while examining how to craft meaningful, purposeful gaming experiences.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Script Murders - The Form and Design of the Most Popular Tabletop Genre in China

Explore the evolution and design of script murder games in China, from their Western origins to diverse genres like joy, emotion, and horror, offering insights for game developers.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Gorillaz, Monkees, K/DA, and OFK - Creating Virtual Identity

Explore the evolution of virtual identity in media, from 1960s TV to modern VTubers. Learn design techniques and social priorities behind creating virtual bands and characters.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

How 'Fortnite' Designers Made Their Own Tools

Discover how Fortnite's quest team overcame challenges by empowering designers to create and edit their own tools using Blueprint-driven Editor Utility Widgets in Unreal Engine, enhancing efficiency and flexibility.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

To the Beat Y'all - What Designers Can Learn From Hip Hop

Explore hip hop's literary techniques and their application to game story structure and dialogue, focusing on economy of language, terminology, and language hierarchy in both music and game design.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Acquiring Game Design Skills Beyond Entertainment

Explore game design beyond entertainment, focusing on applications in medicine, education, and training. Learn key strategies for adapting skills to new challenges and evolving fields.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Dark Pictures - Season 1 - 4 Games in 4 Years - Audio Systems for Narrative Horror

Explore innovative audio systems for narrative horror games, including character sound, foley, interactive mixing, and spatial audio, as used in the Dark Pictures Anthology series.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Finding Harmony in Anime Style and Physically Based Rendering

Explore rendering techniques for creating physics-based anime-style worlds in games. Learn about deferred rendering, lighting, shadowing, and post-processing to blend modern graphics with toon shading.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Sunless Skies - A Narrative Postmortem

Explore the narrative development of 'Sunless Skies', from concept to execution. Learn strategies for crafting compelling stories, managing consultations, and overcoming challenges in game writing.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk