BETTER OFF TED

A curation of talks that go beyond the ten minute time slot in both length and depth.

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Darius Kazemi (yet again) gives a compelling talk (yet again) on the use of randomness in content generation.

This video is from the 2017 Roguelike Celebration: https://roguelike.club/event2017.html

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Darius Kazemi (Tiny Subversions) is well known as the king of the Twitter Bot. His imagination is often matched by his relentless rate of output. Keeping it simple is key here. This simplicity allows him to design and develop bots in a couple of hours or so.

Here he shares his advice on how to finish a project - something I often wrestle with.

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Dan Pinchbeck is the studio head (along with his wife) of The Chinese Room. Their most recent game - Everyone has Gone to the Rapture builds on the themes explored in their debut title Dear Esther. Specifically, the themes of storytelling over traditional game mechanics are central to much of the studios work. In this talk, Dan discusses his academic roots that led to the design of Dear Esther and the birth of The Chinese Room.

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Jeff Minter shares his 30 year history of developing games. From his humble beginnings developing for the Commodore Vic 20 through to his (then) current work on the Xbox 360 game Space Giraffe.

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Paul Ford has had a rich history with the web. As well as his extensive writing on the Proto-blog www.ftrain.com he is a prolific programmer. In this talk he gives an honest portrait of his relationship with technology, his eating habits and his aspirations.

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Dirty New Media - Jake Elliott (2008)

Jake Elliott is perhaps best known as part of Cardboard Computer - creators of Kentucky Router Zero. However, he is also an artist that plays through a range of mediums. In this talk, Jake provides us with a history and possible contexts for the dirty new media movement.

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While I’m not a massive fan of the Welcome to Nightvale podcast I do admire the intention and talent behind it. In this talk, Joseph Fink, one of the principle writers of the series gives us his rags to riches story in a curiously casual self derisive style.

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www.gdcvault.com/play/1020596/Scenography-of-Kentucky-Route

Great presentation showing how theatre design shaped and influenced KRZ visual aesthetic.

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Brandon Boyer - Say how you play

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Pippin Barr - The Game Designer is Present

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Charles Crook - Keynote at the Next Generation Learning Conference 2012

Professor Charles Crook from the LSRI, University of Nottingham holds his keynote speech at the Next Generation Learning Conference 2012, NGL 2012. The topic is The changing experience of learning for undergraduates.

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Bret Victor - Media for thinking the unthinkable

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Bret Victor - Stop drawing dead fish

Victors talks are always satisfying but this one goes beyond even his high standards. Here we see him demonstrate his ideas through a self designed animation tool that he uses to create a...well watch it and see.

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Jake Elliott - Designing for Mystery