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Here from Michigan State University Game Development Course!

This is very interesting. Actually, I'm also working on a project about optimizing teaching methods, but with a focus on higher-level classes and subjects of study.

Whenever I hear people say she’s known for life is strange and tiny, Tina I’m just glad most her fans aren’t like me and only know her as aloy if not she wouldn’t be Known as aloy. She’s forever aloy to me. 😍

Thank you Jon , You changed my life , And thank you MediaXstanford for the interview.

I can hear Chloe

Looking forward to this fartside shat

When he revealed that this doesnt replace writing, and that the one page designs were *extra* work ontop of the writing, I just gave up lol.

0:56 Lee intro 3:12 Lee's background 11:24 What does an Art Director do? 14:15 What is Art Direction? 16:28 Fidelity is not Art Direction 17:50 Why is Art Direction important? (Identity, Appeal, Readability, Theme) 20:21 - Appeal 21:33 - Readability 24:11 - Theme 26:05 The 4Fs framework (for describing visual style) 27:15 - Frame (when/where) 29:29 - Form (shape language, colours, proportion, art history time period, etc) 32:05 - Focus (the visual idea which makes your game stand out, and informs other choices in the game dev) 33:26 - Filter (the lens through which to view your game, relating to theme) 35:46 4F example: Fallout 3 37:45 4F example: Guacamelee! 39:56 Mid-way Q&A 47:12 Creating a visual style 48:04 - Ideas & Inspiration 48:51 - Reference / research 52:45 Concept art 1:00:24 Detail; do you need it? 1:02:30 Dynamics 1:04:00 Readability 1:06:34 Color 1:08:26 Tell the story 1:10:36 Visual target as a single image 1:13:43 Visual target as a video 1:16:48 Summary 1:17:40 Resources 1:18:24 Headlander Art Direction Document link: www.dropbox.com/s/h4sku7tr7of02j8/Headlander_ADD.pdf?dl=0

I like 58:10

What about a master's degree of education in media and technology ?

(0:17 - 6:18) A brief, succinct, and amazing presentation on the Data - Wisdom Hierarchy by Brian Pierce, Deputy Director of DARPA's Information Innovation Office. I keep coming back to this MediaX clip. I was in the audience in 2017 when it was presented and so happy it's available online. Thank you!

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I need a class or something in order to learn the software needed in order to learn how to make designs like this.

Does anyone have a link to the slides?

every Part of Tiny Tina Is Perfect! Everything done Right ! My Favourite Charaktere!

he actually went into orc oppression theory at the end that dude really needs to get a life

"Hours and hours and hours of people's lives". Man the new writers really don't have that philosophy lol

Unfortunately, Mr. Garcia is a little hasty in his conclusions. His approach would be interesting if he laid a more solid foundation in the first 30 minutes of his talk, instead trying to give a complete outline in too short a time and therefore missing out on his actual topic, which is why it comes up short. In the old days, you would have half-wittingly remarked that white, pimply teenagers, who like chain bikinis and sugary soft drinks, play D&D. Unfortunately, Mr. Garcia does not get beyond this remark. It would have been interesting if he hadn't counted pictures with women, but had described how D&D began as a hobby for a special group, and today it runs through different communities, with very colorful influences. These days, RPG can be gay, glitzy, dead serious, sleazy, nationalistic, outspoken, or stubborn. It can be anything you can imagine and want. Nice that he dedicates time to the topic. But like his lecture itself, some of the conclusions seem rushed. Overall, therefore, it is neither culturally nor scientifically recommendable. But maybe it's good enough to start a discussion on it.

I’ve been living the past 10 years with little or no autobiographical memory ability (SDAM), which doesn’t just impair my recollection of past experiences but continues to apparently limit encoding of current experiences. I have taken part in several memory studies and score better than average in identifying faces and decision making following a learned exercise. But in this talk Prof Wagner made little distinction between short and long term memory and the extent to which autonoetic consciousness might differ between these points along a memory timeline. In my (personal) experience they are very different, and while I appreciate that trials are more reproducible when measured over short time periods, it could be misleading to suggest their conclusions are meaningful until studies are taken out of the lab and applied to real lived experiences. I hope Professor Wagner’s research is able to reflect this perspective.

1 page GDD is a brilliant concept. I will make a video about this, it's glorious idea and concept! =) EDIT: concept, concept, concept; I forgot to add CONCEPT

The moment he made that statement about BR2 he lost me. How do you not catch the philosophical underpinnings of that movie?

John was my doctoral supervisor at the University of Calgary and I was his first PhD student. I knew then that he was headed for a stellar academic career and this has certainly proven true. What you don’t get in this clip is his dry sense of humour. Despite his formidable intellect, that will always be my vision of John. Oh, and that he was the best man at my wedding and a great lead guitarist 🎸More academics should be like him.

keep golbing that water while you are taking😤

Very interesting, thanks for sharing, is there more information about the tools for creating? Thanks 🙏🏻

You're both very deeply missed, BL3's story was a disaster....

I love her

I am proud to have worked with Martin on the original PEP project and later on the an earlier version of ACORN development.

this is the guy behind the new dnd after school kits, where he wants kids in grade 4 to, "try out different identities". yeah this isnt going to be used to transition kids without parental consent or knowledge. 🙄

Jon isn't doing art. He thinks he is doing art, but he isn't doing art. This methodology whereby he finds the germ of an idea through exploratory programming, then scraps everything to make it the foundation, then builds the right world around the idea to articulate all aspects of it perfectly and have the idea discover its own ramifications like growing a crystal isn't art... it's design. It is the same process as creating a corporate logo, like the one for Apple which is an apple with a bite taken out of it to represent the apple from the tree of knowledge in Genesis, to then convey the sense that Apple products are about providing knowledge to their customers. Now. Take that message and think up an alternative logo that doesn't use an apple. What can you come up with. Nothing as good I would suspect. You also have to think about the logo working on a letterhead in B&W and at billboard scale. When you get into other company logos based on the text of their name the choice of font is crucial, and sometimes specially designed to convey a certain status and personality to the brand. So, you should see from this short description an affinity does exist between graphic design and Jonathan Blow's _The Witness_ and _Braid._ Their narrative elements aren't design, and sit atop the core design as a form of cringe artwork, but few like the games for their audio logs and prose sections. In _The Witness_ Jon designs aesthetics that have a dynamical space of possibilities accessible by the very simple mechanics of invisible line tracing (not line drawing as everyone says it is as that would be more like the spell casting mechanic that he developed and then realised wasn't part of an RPG but enough to be the foundation of a tight design explored thoroughly), where one of these possibilities (occluded by the mystery of your own false assumptions as you have incorrectly inferred the rules of the puzzle, or where the puzzle can be, or how a puzzle's local state must be a constant and can't be subject to indirect change from some other mechanism within the global environment, none of which you have been told you can't do, as you have never been told how to do anything - past engaging with the first door as the line tracing is a mode, when the CONTROL key could have halted player movement when held down and acted as a Quasimode to avoid lock-in and be better designed mechanically, or be hold RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON, or be hold LEFT TRIGGER on a gamepad), is the solution and yields positive feedback and a sense of progression and an incremental recognition that assumes you have understood some underlying rule that can be relied on in similar puzzles later on (which isn't the case if you brute forced the solution or followed a walkthrough or speedrun played back in slow-mo because you mistakenly assume, again, that it is a puzzle game where the goal is about getting to the end, and there will be some satisfyingly revelatory pay off about the island the-re rather than what seems to many to be a pretentious troll as they had the wrong expectations that _The Witness_ was a puzzle game, and not actually about something else that required the island environment, as the panel puzzles they rushed through as they got too incrutable for them with the aid of a speedrun walkthrough just to get "their money's worth' by seeing the ending for themselves, or skipping all of THAT and finding a video of the ending cutscene, as people did with _No Man's Sky,_ leaves them frustrated and bitter as they haven't understood what the world of the island was created for, as the panel puzzles could have been hosted on a website and still been non-linearly accessed, including the sound puzzles), is intended to give rise to an "Epiphany" of understanding, to learn the real rules without being told anything beyond where to start tracing the line on the first locked door and highlighting the exits of the maze and flashing red the parts in error to help narrow the dynamical space of possibility to be more restrictive than every possible path traceable, followed by the major meta epiphany that the traces aren't limited to just the panels, not that you were told that was the only place you could interact with the world, which was then, for me followed by the meta-meta epiphany that the island and the objects that are in it avoid circles everywhere that is not the start of a trace and how unimaginably complicated it must have been to avoid these "null" cases, as everything that looks like an affordance becomes distracting clutter during interaction (i.e. you don't want to add buttons and switches and levers to a control panel that aren't connected to any functionality even if they aren't labelled, and you have to figure out their combined action on the system's state through trial and error as if messing about with the T.A.R.D.I.S.' octagonal console which was designed to be used by eight trained Gallifreyan pilots), with the best case of this anti-design being the wheels of the mine cart in the Town. Art elicits an emotional reponse by communicating a theme. So, the very fact that many don't get to the meta-level of _The Witness_ and just solve the panel puzzles, thinking that is all there is, represents an artistic failure. The audio logs are optional and avoidable. The stuff beyond the Hotel which interconnects with some philosophical ramblings that could have been strewn in the grass of _PUBG_ as audio logs to pick up and be just as ""existential"" about man's relationship to the world as an observer and there being no difference in a Berkelerian sense between living in a simulation and reality isn't profound and is undercut as anything to be seriously entertained or philosophically explored by it being immediately acknowledged that Blow is taking the piss, quite literally, obsessed with circular biscuits, and now unfit for society due to spending too much time in some ""Buddhist"" VR, which kinda completely misses the point about Maya. So, _The Witness_ doesn't even convey the philosophical depth of a short poem and at best comes across as an insincere time wasting limerick. His advice is frankly dangerous, as most games can be grown over time so that they are playable and fun and challenging and engaging at every stage in their elaboration. _Civilisation VI_ didn't need to have every feature finished before Sid Meier stepped back and thought to himself "Aha! Now I finally know what I needed to focus on all this time, and can now scrap all of this code I have written, and start from scratch and make something well designed that explores one idea thoroughly". There are a lot of systems underlying his game which probably don't even need to be there and don't contribute to what its players like about it, and could even detract from it, but they are so embedded that they are inextricably linked to code that would be too much work to change, and the whole point is to have a lot of code complexity because it can then be reflective of the complexity of geopolitical world history, technological innovations, economics and territorial invasions as a result of failed diplomacy. So, that's territorial expansion, resource acquisition, technological innovation, economic markets, governmental taxation, democracy and its alternatives, diplomatic relations with foreign nations, national defense or conquest leading to the management of military engagements in war... so that's eight interrelated things, not just one idea (line tracing) thoroughly explored in all possible forms it can take and then justified through some unifying quasi-narrative about observing the world, whatever the world is, which is in doubt, as it may be a simulation, even when you escape the island which is revealed to have been a simulation, and the bleed through those due to a form of temporary induced obsessive compulsive disorder leading to a cognitive sensitisation towards pareidolia. Then there is the less apparent "theme", so ineptly articulated and communicated to so few as to barely qualify as one, which is the observation not of the world outside of the observer, but of the world within, and the awareness of their own thought processes as they engage with puzzles and then consider whether their goal directed behaviour is itself an assumption that has been brought into _The Witness_ from other games, and actually _The Witness_ never claimed to be a game in the sense it would provide some reward for completion / recognition of THIS self-reflective Buddhist theme. Yet, this is at odds with it having Achievements and Trophies. You don't get to have a Platinum be a goal that can be acquired and then have the super subtle hidden message of your game be don't strive to achieve as you have all that you need within you already. Blow's advice blows.

I've been working on my game for thirty years and I don't know what the foundational idea is.

Very good and insightful analysis of markets and the current challenges!

5:18 🙂

Many formulas, but I struggled to find deep meaning and abandoned at minute 20.

Man, Tiny Tinas voice and the writer of bl2! I wish I could go to such a seminar

What game is this for? Borderlands?

Amazing job by the interviewer

All these woke weirdos killed this franchise

Whole speech went downhill from the moment he said "White"

Now we have tiny Tina’s wondwrlands!

This right here aged so well. Now tiny Tina has a stand alone game.

Tiny Tina is definitely the most beloved character in the borderlands franchise she has to be she's a fucking badass.

now i kinda want to play some borderlands again. thank you pretty lady!

i love tina, she is the best in all the games to me, i never got why people does not like her hehe

If only it was on steam sigh

I love Tina amd BL2 as a whole, but this is painful, listening to someone describe how afraid they were that they were being racist by having Tina speak the way she does. The people maling the accusations that it's racist are actually racist because the argument is "That's how black people talk." Is it? All and only black people talk like that?

I can't tell if she ever said "ummmm"

It's daddy master!

Dungeons and Daddies!!