SPEAKERS
Anna Hollinrake idle animations are like falling in love
Anna discusses with excessive romanticism the ways that 'useless' animations help us bond with the characters we play.
Tom Davison Homes as Emblematic Spaces
How the places our characters live could be used to become symbolic of their feelings and experiences.
Grant Howitt (via Elizabeth Simoens) Assassin's Creed and the Ubiquity of Takedown Moves
Featuring a short play about videogames.
Colm Seeley and Stuart Burnside for the BFI Does a Tree have a nationality?
While very little is more mundane than paperwork and tax returns, we'll see the work and weirder side of the day-to-day behind the scenes for the BFI.
Florencia Minuzzi and Dustin Connor Conversations in Games – no, not the life-changing, world-shattering kind.
Conversations in real life can be relaxed chats about T.V., confiding in a friend about your troubles or arguing with a sibling – as everyday as eating or sleeping. In games, conversations are being featured more often as stories are held in higher regard... Why is there such a disconnect between our everyday experience of conversations, and the ones we see in games?
Tom Battey Confessions of a Former Monster Hunter
Or: How I learned to stop stabbing dragons and find a semblance of peace.
Boring stuff:
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