My Top Ten Tweets from GDC

1. 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

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

3. #1 Small is Beautiful <ul><li>Game design back in hands of indie creators </li></ul><ul><li>iPhone game demos everywhere </li></ul><ul><li>Successful indie titles from the US not Japan. </li></ul>IMHO: Interesting how many innovative titles spill out of teams leaving larger companies. #Little Big Planet #gdc #gdc09

4. #2 Making the Impossible Possible - Metal Gear Solid <ul><li>Hideo Kojima, Kojima Productions - Solid Game Design: Making the 'Impossible' Possible </li></ul><ul><li>Game design uses constraints to accomplish the impossible </li></ul>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

5. #3 Games Hack the Real World <ul><li>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 </li></ul>To make Wikipedia: takes 10M gamers x 16 hours a week = 5 days of World of Warcraft playing @ avantgame #gdc09

6. #4 Players Rule <ul><li>Alex Evans and Mark Healey - Media Molecule - 'Winging It' - Ups, Downs, Mistakes, Successes in the Making of LITTLEBIGPLANET </li></ul>Quality of user created content was at times intimidating. #Little Big Planet #gdc #gdc09

7. #5 Emotion Craft <ul><li>Jonathan Morin, Ubisoft - Player's Expression: The Level Design Structure Behind FAR CRY 2 and Beyond? </li></ul>Morin: Ask how the player feels in different stages of micro decisions and have them build up. Pique feeling power and curiosity. #gdc #gdc09

8. #6 Social Mechanics <ul><li>Alex Hutchins on - Making Friends is Hard: Social Mechanics in Contemporary Design </li></ul><ul><li>Social emotions to build and distribute Massive Social Online games (MSOs) my talk </li></ul>Hutchinson: Player storytelling w/in a social system is a stronger motivator than progression #gdc #gdc09

9. #7 We Wonder About Morals <ul><li>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 </li></ul>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

10. #8 Game Writing <ul><li>Bob Bates shared his expertise at Richard Dansky’s Game Writers' Round Table: Techniques, Tips, and Concerns. </li></ul>Game Writing: Character "Barks" (1-2 words) are most important: advance game state convey character and move story forward #gdc #gdc09

11. #9 Game Design is Communication <ul><li>Gordon Walton, BioWare: 10 Things Great Designers Exhibit </li></ul><ul><li>Working with team as important as design skills </li></ul>Walton: #1 Clear Communication. Design IS communication. To the team and to the audience. #gdc #gdc09

12. #10 Fun Game Interfaces <ul><li>Alex Evans and Mark Healey - Media Molecule: 'Winging It' - Ups, Downs, Mistakes, Successes in the Making of LITTLEBIGPLANET </li></ul>Design philosophy "Everything should be as easy as placing a sticker" #Little Big Planet #gdc #gdc09

13. Favorite Moment (untweeted) <ul><li>Very curious as to why… ;) </li></ul><ul><li>Hmm… topic for GDC10 ? </li></ul>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")

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

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

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

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