Conference Talks

Devoxx

Evolutionary Architecture

Explores how to make software architecture decisions that support change while delivering value early, using fitness functions and practical techniques.

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

Devoxx

Code Review - How to Do It Better

A practical look at why code reviews lose value over time and how teams can improve readability, feedback, review size, and shared standards.

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

Devoxx

Testing Java Code Effectively

Explore practical ways to make Java tests more reliable, from parameterized cases and concurrency waits to isolated collaborators and simulated REST calls.

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

GDC

Benefits of Missing Out - What Cyberpunk 2077 Taught Us About Non-Linear Level Design

Learn how player reception of Cyberpunk 2077’s branching levels shaped techniques for making overlooked paths feel rewarding and production-friendly.

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

GDC

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

A look at whether games can make statements about the world, and how designers can shape them to say what they intend.

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

GDC

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

Trace how China’s jubensha grew from imported murder mysteries into tabletop scripts of joy, emotion, horror, and more.

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

GOTO Conferences

Plain Text

A tour of the hidden assumptions behind plain text, from teletypes and emoji to the bugs those assumptions can cause.

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

GOTO Conferences

Concurrency Oriented Programming in a Modern World

The talk examines how Erlang’s concurrency model and fault-tolerant design principles apply to modern cloud and distributed architectures.

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

GDC

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

A look at how virtual performers evolved across entertainment, and how Team OFK shaped the identities and social priorities behind its game and band.

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

GOTO Conferences

Lessons From Billions of Breached Records

A look at what billions of breached records reveal about how major data breaches happen and continue to affect people.

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

GDC

How 'Fortnite' Designers Made Their Own Tools

Fortnite quest designers built and iterated on their own Unreal Editor tools to speed up content production.

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

GOTO Conferences

I Learned Embedded Development with Rust and You Can Too

A web developer’s first steps into embedded work trace how a Rust program can make a microcontroller blink LEDs.

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

GDC

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

Explore how hip-hop’s literary techniques can shape game stories and dialogue, with examples of rhetoric, concise language, and terminology in games.

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

GOTO Conferences

Creating Local-First Collaboration Software with Automerge

Explores how local-first collaboration can keep shared documents usable offline and independent of a central cloud service, using Automerge to merge concurrent edits.

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

GOTO Conferences

Reliable Messaging in the World of Actors

A journey through repeated redesigns of delivery guarantees for reliable messaging in actor-based systems.

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