Top Ten Tweets Game Developers Conference Summary on Twitter Nicole Lazzaro, President XEODesign, Inc. GDC March 28, 2009 Nlazz@xeodesign.com XEODesign Putting Emotion into Play ® ™ Follow me on Twitter: @NicoleLazzaro Twitter: #gdc #gdc09

My Top Ten Tweets from GDC Trends that made the biggest impression on me a game researcher and designer Challenge: Summarize a 5 day conference in 10 Tweets. That’s 1,400 characters! My Top Ten Tweets from GDC posted including my favorite untweeted moment http://slideshare.net/NicoleLazzaro #gdc #gdc09

Trends that made the biggest impression on me a game researcher and designer

Challenge: Summarize a 5 day conference in 10 Tweets. That’s 1,400 characters!

#1 Small is Beautiful Game design back in hands of indie creators iPhone game demos everywhere Successful indie titles from the US not Japan. IMHO: Interesting how many innovative titles spill out of teams leaving larger companies. #Little Big Planet #gdc #gdc09

Game design back in hands of indie creators

iPhone game demos everywhere

Successful indie titles from the US not Japan.

#2 Making the Impossible Possible - Metal Gear Solid Hideo Kojima, Kojima Productions - Solid Game Design: Making the 'Impossible' Possible Game design uses constraints to accomplish the impossible Kojima: MGS grew out of the hardware limitations, add software, and game design is the ladder to get to the next level of games #gdc #gdc09

Hideo Kojima, Kojima Productions - Solid Game Design: Making the 'Impossible' Possible

Game design uses constraints to accomplish the impossible

#3 Games Hack the Real World Jane McGonigal, Institute for the Future / Avantgame - Learning to Make Your Own Reality: How to Develop Games that Re-invent Life As We Know It To make Wikipedia: takes 10M gamers x 16 hours a week = 5 days of World of Warcraft playing @ avantgame #gdc09

Jane McGonigal, Institute for the Future / Avantgame - Learning to Make Your Own Reality: How to Develop Games that Re-invent Life As We Know It

#4 Players Rule Alex Evans and Mark Healey - Media Molecule - 'Winging It' - Ups, Downs, Mistakes, Successes in the Making of LITTLEBIGPLANET Quality of user created content was at times intimidating. #Little Big Planet #gdc #gdc09

Alex Evans and Mark Healey - Media Molecule - 'Winging It' - Ups, Downs, Mistakes, Successes in the Making of LITTLEBIGPLANET

#5 Emotion Craft Jonathan Morin, Ubisoft - Player's Expression: The Level Design Structure Behind FAR CRY 2 and Beyond? Morin: Ask how the player feels in different stages of micro decisions and have them build up. Pique feeling power and curiosity. #gdc #gdc09

Jonathan Morin, Ubisoft - Player's Expression: The Level Design Structure Behind FAR CRY 2 and Beyond?

#6 Social Mechanics Alex Hutchins on - Making Friends is Hard: Social Mechanics in Contemporary Design Social emotions to build and distribute Massive Social Online games (MSOs) my talk Hutchinson: Player storytelling w/in a social system is a stronger motivator than progression #gdc #gdc09

Alex Hutchins on - Making Friends is Hard: Social Mechanics in Contemporary Design

Social emotions to build and distribute Massive Social Online games (MSOs) my talk

#7 We Wonder About Morals Rusel DeMaria, Peter Molyneux, Will Wright, Lorne Lanning, Bing Gordon and Ed Fries - Stretching Beyond Entertainment: The Role of Games in Personal and Social Change Will Wright: Games are cool because they are a renegade art form. Parents hate them. Games are the Rock and Roll of our age. #gdc #gdc09

Rusel DeMaria, Peter Molyneux, Will Wright, Lorne Lanning, Bing Gordon and Ed Fries - Stretching Beyond Entertainment: The Role of Games in Personal and Social Change

#8 Game Writing Bob Bates shared his expertise at Richard Dansky’s Game Writers' Round Table: Techniques, Tips, and Concerns. Game Writing: Character "Barks" (1-2 words) are most important: advance game state convey character and move story forward #gdc #gdc09

Bob Bates shared his expertise at Richard Dansky’s Game Writers' Round Table: Techniques, Tips, and Concerns.

#9 Game Design is Communication Gordon Walton, BioWare: 10 Things Great Designers Exhibit Working with team as important as design skills Walton: #1 Clear Communication. Design IS communication. To the team and to the audience. #gdc #gdc09

Gordon Walton, BioWare: 10 Things Great Designers Exhibit

Working with team as important as design skills

#10 Fun Game Interfaces Alex Evans and Mark Healey - Media Molecule: 'Winging It' - Ups, Downs, Mistakes, Successes in the Making of LITTLEBIGPLANET Design philosophy "Everything should be as easy as placing a sticker" #Little Big Planet #gdc #gdc09

Alex Evans and Mark Healey - Media Molecule: 'Winging It' - Ups, Downs, Mistakes, Successes in the Making of LITTLEBIGPLANET

Favorite Moment (untweeted) Very curious as to why… ;) Hmm… topic for GDC10 ? Used the “L” word in a question and half the audience jumped as if I had dropped a sack of live tarantulas. (The “L” word is "Love")

Very curious as to why… ;)

Hmm… topic for GDC10 ?

Thanks GDC!!! Amazing Presenters! Awesome Volunteers!! Props to all you Tweeters too!! You Rawk! Props to Adam Martin + Darius Kazemi (@tinysubversions) for “convincing” me to Tweet! Props to everyone at TSI for putting on such an amazing GDC!!! #gdc #gdc09

Amazing Presenters! Awesome Volunteers!!

Props to all you Tweeters too!! You Rawk!

Props to Adam Martin + Darius Kazemi (@tinysubversions) for “convincing” me to Tweet!

Live Blogging GDC Sessions With hundreds tweeting, live blogging, and posting many sessions got detailed coverage (see notes below for more) New Trend: More Blogs with GDC session coverage: http://t-machine.org/index.php/category/gdc-2009/ (@ or email me w/more)

With hundreds tweeting, live blogging, and posting many sessions got detailed coverage (see notes below for more)

Twitter Glossary Top Questions about Twitter: Answered RT: @susanmernit Getting started with twitter--and tips and tools for beginners http://ff.im/-1NAll

Top Questions about Twitter: Answered

More on Emotion Games and Social Media: New Books I’ve Written Chapters in: Beyond Game Design , Chris Bateman Game Usability , Katherine Isbister Free white papers and slides on emotion and games: xeodesign.com/whyweplaygames, Slideshare.com/NicoleLazzaro Follow me on Twitter: @NicoleLazzaro * [email_address] *think “puzzle player” 2z’s and 1r

New Books I’ve Written Chapters in:

Beyond Game Design , Chris Bateman

Game Usability , Katherine Isbister

Free white papers and slides on emotion and games: xeodesign.com/whyweplaygames, Slideshare.com/NicoleLazzaro