GC Summit 2009

On February 12, 2009, members of the Bay Area Game community gathered at the San Francisco Zoo for the third annual Game Control Summit.

Music: "Mr. Fancy Pants" by Jonathan Coulton. Why? Because it was the right length.

Talks:

1. GC Transparency - Teresa Torres
2. An Analytic Framework for Estimating Puzzle Quality - Scott Blomquist
3. Being GC (Logistics) - DeeAnn Sole
4. Ghost Patrol Structure & Story - Greg deBeer & Brian Mendenhall
5. Run More Games - Red Byer

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GC Transparency

(16 min.) Orange Snood's Teresa Torres talks about blogging the GC process.

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An Analytic Framework for Estimating Puzzle Quality

(20 min.) Team SharkBait's Scott Blomquist talks about the theory behind designing puzzles.

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Being GC

(35 min.) Team Snout's DeeAnn Sole talks about logistics: planning, insurance, taxes, and other pitfalls.

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Ghost Patrol Double Feature

Structure (18 min.) Desert Taxi's Greg deBeer talks about the structure and design of Ghost Patrol.  View slides online  Download slides (2MB .PPT)

Story (24 min.) Lowkey's Brian Mendenhall talks about story and theme integration in Ghost Patrol.  View slides online  Download slides (624KB .PPT)

Q&A (15 min.) Discussion follows.

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Run More Games

Presentation (21 min.) Orange Snood's Red Byer talks about supply and demand in the Game community.  View slides online  Download slides (900KB .PDF)

Q&A (23 min.) Discussion follows.

Red's follow-up commentary
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Credits

Thanks to Shinteki for sponsoring the GC Summit!

Video production assistance provided by Team Snout and Larry Hosken.

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