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A deep dive on the topic of Puzzle Dependency Graphs and how to use them in the design of all sorts of games. Starting with a practical answer to the question "What is a Puzzle?" and progressing through a fully worked example from the seminal adventure game "The Day of the Tentacle". The topic includes guidance on how to construct a Puzzle Dependency Graph using various common software packages and explores what analysis of these graphs can tell you about your game's puzzles, story structure and gameplay balance.

Joshua Weinberg | Director, The Website is Down
Location: Overlook 2, 2nd Floor, West Hall
Date: Thursday, March 17
Time: 12:45pm - 1:10pm
Format: Poster
Track: Design
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Main Conference Pass

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Making good VR is hard, but it can be done, if you know the secrets. Join Jesse Schell and design director Shawn Patton as they share lessons learned developing the award winning VR experience I Expect You to Die. Topics covered include: how to avoid motion sickness, things VR is good at (and bad at), and why immersion trumps gameplay. How did the team create more levels without screwing up the magic of the first one? How can you use hand trackers like the Oculus Touch to take your game to a higher level of immersion? The answers to these questions, and much more, will be revealed!

Shawn Patton | Senior Game Designer, Schell Games
Jesse Schell | CEO, Schell Games
Location: Room 2006, West Hall
Date: Monday, March 14
Time: 11:20am - 12:20pm
Format: Session
Track: Game VR/AR
Pass Type: All Access Pass, VRDC Pass, Summits, Tutorials & Bootcamps Pass

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Kotaku recently declared that pre-ordering games is a "Very Bad Idea", despite the fact that it's been a staple of the games industry for decades. Publishers relied on pre-orders to help set targets, and convince retailers to give games coveted floor space. Now, with ecommerce, and digital distribution both disrupting the old model, publishers are facing a very different marketing and sales landscape. With insights from major publishers, we discuss the past and future of pre-orders.

Everyone knows that 95% of players will leave your game within a month. Figuring out why seems so difficult that most of the problems go ignored. This talk is a deep dive into the solvable technology reasons that players abandon a game, sometimes even before they've started playing. Using up to date metrics derived from Akamai's intelligent platform, along with developer and player feedback the presentation will cover:

- The roadblocks to acquiring new users profitably across devices, from your marketing website, to trial, to install, to day one conversions.
- The never-ending challenge and high stakes of retaining players by keeping content fresh, and delivering fast, flawless game experiences every time.
- The daily risk of data theft and server downtime from an ever-expanding range of cyber attacks that can drive high player churn, and disrupt your revenue stream.

Nelson Rodriguez | Senior Games Industry Marketing Manager, Akamai
Location: Room 3022, West Hall
Date: Thursday, March 17
Time: 2:00pm - 2:30pm
Format: Sponsored Session
Track: Business, Marketing & Management
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Audio Track Pass, GDC Education Summit Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass, Main Conference Pass, Summits, Tutorials & Bootcamps Pass, VRDC Pass

Nelson Rodriguez | Senior Games Industry Marketing Manager, Akamai
Location: Room 2000, West Hall
Date: Thursday, March 17
Time: 3:00pm - 3:30pm
Format: Sponsored Session
Track: Business, Marketing & Management
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Audio Track Pass, GDC Education Summit Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass, Main Conference Pass, Summits, Tutorials & Bootcamps Pass, VRDC Pass

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Bloodborne is a 2015 horror-action RPG directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki (Demon's Soul and Dark Souls), developed by From Software (Japan) and published exclusively on PS4. The game music has received broad critical acclaim for its singular, intense Gothic horror sound performed by large orchestra, choir, soloists, percussion and utilizing extended orchestral techniques. This lecture will examine the musical style and orchestral approaches in the score. We will discuss the dissonant harmony, the horror-inspired melodic gestures, the "wall of sound" approaches and the blood-curdling action music. We will show how the challenging choral writing and the extended orchestral techniques evoked the desperate, disease-plagued City of Yharnam. We will also discuss how the orchestration helped unify the "sound" and aesthetics while working with a multi-cultural creative team (three Japanese staff composers at From Software, and three US guest composers). Additionally, the lecture will examine the communication and logistical challenges inherent with teams based across three continents, and strategies to promote successful musical productions.

Peter Scaturro | Sr. Music Producer, Sony Computer Entertainment Americas
Jim Fowler | Music Production Supervisor, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
Penka Kouneva | Lead Orchestrator, Kouneva Studios
Location: Room 3006, West Hall
Date: Friday, March 18
Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
Format: Session
Track: Audio, Production
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Audio Track Pass, Main Conference Pass

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What does the rest of the world know about engagement? Hear what influential disrupters in media know about the community engagement and formalize your understanding of community management at the same time. This presentation furthers funded research to understand how games can address the biggest problems in news media. Facilitated by the research fellows who spent 2015 working with the biggest names in news media, attendees get a chance to learn about their findings and provide feedback and insight. What happens when you bring adaptive, creative, high energy, game-fluent people to solve the biggest problems in community engagement? There's a jolt of new solutions to the problems plaguing the consumption and production of media. How does game design and marketing translate into practicable solutions? Join this talk to start answering all these questions and gain greater insight into the world of community engagement.

Lindsay Grace | Director, Creative Director, American University Game Lab
Joyce Rice | Fellow, American University Game Lab
Cherisse Datu | Fellow-Jolt Program, American University Game Lab
Kelli Dunlap | Fellow, American University Game Lab
Location: Room 3020, West Hall
Date: Monday, March 14
Time: 1:20pm - 1:50pm
Format: Session
Track: Community Management Summit
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits, Tutorials & Bootcamps Pass

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Games are great at creating spaces where players can explore identity. Sometimes, games help players explore their own identity by giving them tools to express themselves within the game's world and systems. Games can also ask players to perform as and better understand another identity. Designer Nina Freeman will explain how, in Star Maid Game's Cibele, she designed a system that asks players to embody a young woman falling in love with someone over the internet. Nina will speak about how players can understand a character in an honest and intimate way through mechanics that support embodiment and performance.

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Nina Freeman | Level Designer, Fullbright
Location: Room 2009, West Hall
Date: Monday, March 14
Time: 5:30pm - 6:00pm
Format: Session
Track: Independent Games Summit
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Are you interested in developing games for a huge upcoming audience of retirees? This session discusses the findings from a decade of academic research on the topic and has some surprising findings. Most importantly, it concludes that older gamers are much less interested in game design that is focused on brain training and physical exercise than popular media would have you believe. It introduces a series of design guidelines that are derived from many interviews, surveys, gameplay experiments and design workshops with older adults.

Bob De Schutter | C. Michael Armstrong Professor of Applied Game Design, Miami University
Location: Room 3020, West Hall
Date: Thursday, March 17
Time: 10:00am - 11:00am
Format: Session
Track: Advocacy, Design
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Main Conference Pass, VRDC Pass, Summits, Tutorials & Bootcamps Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass, GDC Education Summit Pass, Audio Track Pass, Expo Pass

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"Valve has been creating advanced prototype VR HMD's since mid-2013 that are more advanced than other developers currently have access to, and this head start has granted them a VR-specific rendering knowledge that they'd like to share with developers who are actively working on VR or plan to in the near future. Alex Vlachos begins with the base requirements of VR rendering, and progresses into advanced rendering topics focusing on both performance and visual quality.
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So they made you a lead, but now what? If you are like the majority of new team leads, then you might find it difficult to answer this question. Oliver certainly struggled to adjust to his new role at Double Fine Productions and after talking to many fellow developers it quickly became clear that most team leads are expected to simply pick up the necessary skillset themselves. In this talk Oliver will therefore share what he learned while settling into a leadership position in addition to providing lots of practical advice that will help new team leads to get started in their new role.

Oliver Franzke | Lead Programmer, Double Fine Productions
Location: Room 132, North Hall
Date: Thursday, March 17
Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Format: Session
Track: Production, Programming
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Main Conference Pass

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Non-linear storytelling is paramount for CD PROJEKT RED games and dialogues are one of the main means of its delivery. The dialogue system is one of the most advanced systems in Wild Hunt's game engine and this talk will cover all of its features, as well as provide deep insight into how these features work. Additionally, the session will demonstrate the pipeline, tools and editor.

The talk will also touch upon animation problems we encountered during production, as well as provide applicable solutions via a step-by-step lesson on how we created Witcher-style dialogues with our tech.

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Piotr Tomsinski | Animation Technical Director, CD PROJEKT RED
Location: Room 134, North Hall
Date: Friday, March 18
Time: 10:00am - 11:00am
Format: Session
Track: Programming, Visual Arts
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Audio teams are often frustrated by a lack of support and understanding from their dev teams. This talk hopes to present ways to turn that frustration into cooperation by presenting a series of easy (and fun) ways audio team memebers can engage with their larger development teams early to provide audio direction to the project and enjoy a cascading benefit of knowledge through education. Using anecdotes and examples of various useful engagement practices for audio teams, this talk aims to show how these practices can pay huge dividends in getting entire teams to think about and be excited about the audio of a project from pre-production onward.

Rev. Dr. Bradley D. Meyer | Audio Director, Sucker Punch Productions
Location: Room 3002, West Hall
Date: Friday, March 18
Time: 11:30am - 12:00pm
Format: Session
Track: Audio
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Audio Track Pass, Main Conference Pass

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When building any game, but especially a sequel to the beloved Diablo series, it's critical that you have a series of core pillars you can use as a guide to making decisions and defining what you want the final vision of the game to accomplish. In this post-mortem, Blizard game developer Jay Wilson explains Diablo III's design pillars, and how well he and his team accomplished them in this 2013 talk.
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