#gdc vault

[jaydensmits]

Audience Identification

Figuring out who your target audience is, is invaluable. Learning what they like to play, how much time and disposable income they have is very important. After watching a talk in the GDC Vault I know feel I have a better handle on how this should be done. This talk was given by Jason VandenBerghe who is a designer at Ubisoft, he talked about many things but the best part was when he was showing his way of categorizing the gaming market. He created these.

Which you can track what type of person your target audience is. For example if your game is about exploring and is fantasy, you could say your audience would act a bit like Alice from Alice in Wonderland, and an example game they would play is Skyrim. 

[animationtidbits]

GDC: Killer Portfolio or Portfolio Killer 2018: Advice from Industry Artists

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[rogermontserrat]

100 videos de charlas y presentaciones de calidad sobre el desarrollo y la industria de videojuegos. A pesar de tener una gran parte para los visitantes registrados al evento, dispone de un buen volumen de contenidos totalmente públicos.

[pixelprospector]

Hundreds of gamedev talks from GDC can be watched for free on the GDC Vault website or on the related YouTube channel.

[billbillman-blog]

Game Worlds.

  The development of game worlds are such an essential part of our experience in video games, yet the difficulties involved are much greater than most people would believe. A Geographer’s Guide to Building Game Worlds by Kate Edwards on GDC Vault gives a excellent insight into building game worlds, whether they are trying to create a real world scenario or emulate our world in a fictional setting.

 Most people probably think that creating the world of a video game is easy, that you build the terrain and populated it with characters, buildings and items on the basis of a narrative that the game revolves around.

 However, Kate Edwards talk presents a much more detailed and complex system. At its most basic level, is the world built upon the concept of a real world or a fictional world? Both have their own difficulties. In a real world context, the primary issues revolve around history, faith and culture.

  Each change depending on what part of the world the game is developed or sold too, and something that might seem trivial in one region can be serious or offensive in another. In a fantasy world, believability and logical consistency are vital. Edwards uses the term Topology, basically the why and how things are related rather than the where, when and who. Without these connections, the world can look cobbled together and unrealistic which will be noticed by the observant community that is the gaming industry.

I never really read this much into the creation of game worlds, but it does prove fascinating that so much is necessary to create what many may consider the easiest part of game design. I always had my own interest in cartography within history as well as world design in gaming, seeing how it functions within the industry is valuable information to have for my future in game design.

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1023762/A-Geographer-s-Guide-to

[techskam]

Want to learn about making games from the devs themselves? Check out the GDC vault! All the game dev talks from the game developers conference archived for your convenience.  It is a whopping $500/year for access but the talks are industry quality and if you have the money to spare definitely worth your while. 

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another good gdc talk