Conference Talks

GDC

Taking an Axe to God of War Gameplay

A gameplay design case study of God of War’s combat, camera, weapon, enemy, and companion systems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Unity

Game Architecture with Scriptable Objects

Use Unity ScriptableObjects to build modular, editable, and debuggable game systems with data-driven events and cross-scene communication.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Strange Loop Conference

Stop Writing Dead Programs

A critique of programming languages designed around punchcards, proposing live environments built for future problem-solving.

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

Strange Loop Conference

Game Development in Eight Bits

Explore how NES developers created sophisticated games within severe hardware limitations.

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

Strange Loop Conference

Performance Matters

Learn statistically sound performance evaluation and causal profiling techniques for optimizing modern, concurrent applications.

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

Strange Loop Conference

Uptime 15,364 Days - The Computers of Voyager

An inside look at the durable, adaptable computing systems that have kept Voyager’s probes operating and returning data for five decades.

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

Strange Loop Conference

Propositions as Types

Explores how propositions become types, linking formal logic, lambda calculus, functional programming, theorem proving, and programming-language design.

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

GDC

Three Steps to Becoming a Better Artist Immediately

Three actionable principles for becoming a better artist through visual design, expressive choices, and visual communication.

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

GDC

Crafting a Tiny Open World - A Short Hike Postmortem

A Short Hike’s postmortem on making a small open-world game through visual constraints, custom Unity shaders, terrain tools, and deliberate design shortcuts.

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

GDC

Exploring the Tech and Design of Noita

Technical insights into Noita’s falling-sand physics engine, continuous worlds, rigid-body simulation, and emergent gameplay.

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

GDC

Making Games That Stand Out and Survive

Strategies for making a game stand out, stay relevant, maintain player interest, and survive in a crowded market.

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

GDC

The Making of Divinity - Original Sin 2

A GDC talk on the strategies Larian Studios used to improve Divinity: Original Sin 2, from feedback loops and dialog to armor and release.

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

GDC

Into the Breach Design Postmortem

A postmortem of Into the Breach’s iterative design process, showing how constraints, cut content, and balancing shaped the final game.

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

awwwards.

Design Like a Scientist

Navin Iyengar explains how Netflix uses A/B testing to bring experimental thinking to design.

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

NDC Conferences

Goodbye Controllers, Hello Minimal APIs

See how .NET 6 Minimal APIs reduce boilerplate while supporting performance, structure, and testing for real-world API development.

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