Session Information
| Title | Truth in Game Design Applied: Behind the Development of Hero Generations |
| Presenter(s) | Scott Brodie |
| Time | Friday, October 17, 10:30a-11:30a |
| Location | Ballroom |
| Format | Speaker |
| Description | Independent Game Designer and Heart Shaped Games Founder Scott Brodie recounts his four year long journey designing and developing Hero Generations, a rogue-like/4x strategy/art-game. Hero Generations attempts to put theory about exploring universal human truths through gameplay into practice, allowing players to experience new perspectives on themes such as love, death, family, nature vs nurture, and legacy. Scott will discuss the evolution of his design process and the challenges of taking Hero Generations from unknown cult favorite to recent Kickstarter funding success.
This talk hopes to illustrate a concrete design approach to building games that both entertain and educate by giving players meaningful, transformative experiences they can relate to their own lives. Topics include: -The play experience as metaphor. -Abstraction of personal life experience to create broad appeal and understanding. -Education in games through concept exploration vs message delivery. -Concrete design approach for building games that in practice reveal truths about the human condition. -Challenges faced when this approach is applied in a commercial development context. |