Game Breaking Feature

Game Breaking Feature
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Each episode we discuss and explore popular video game mechanics with guests from all over the video games industry and take your comments and questions

  1. 11/02/2020

    Episode 54: Exposition

    Special Guest: Meagan Byrne is the founder of Achimostawinan Games and Digital Interactive Coordinator with ImagineNATIVE. She gives us the backstory on Exposition in Games. Can games tell stories in their own unique way? How can mechanics drive exposition? And: what’s that audio tape over there? Send your feedback to podcast@gbfeature.com or reach out @Gbfeature on […]

    1 h 30 min

  2. 27/11/2019

    Episode 53: Escort Missions

    Special Guest: Mike Bithell is the Director of John Wick Hex and in this episode he guides us through designing escort missions in games. What makes escort missions bearable? Are there games that get away with it more than others and what if I was the escort mission all along? Send your feedback to podcast@gbfeature.com […]

    1 h 5 min

  3. 05/11/2019

    Episode 52: RNG

    Special Guest: Jeff Larkin is a VFX Artist at Gunfire Games, the studio behind Remnant: From the Ashes. He spontaneously rolls his way into a discussion about random number generation in games. Why do we use so much RNG in game design? How fair to the player is RNG? What does randomness mean and is […]

    1 h 5 min

  4. 11/09/2019

    Episode 51: Dialogue Options

    Special Guest: Nina Freeman is a designer behind games like Cibele and Tacoma and she chose to talk with us about her philosophies on Dialogue Options in games. What sense of agency does this give the player? What are our expectations of consequences from our choices and how long before we start having full conversations […]

    1 h 22 min

  5. 15/08/2019

    Episode 50: Climbing & Parkour

    Special Guest: Xalavier Nelson Jr. is an IGF-nominated developer here to run with the topic of climbing and free-running in games. Is this mechanic a product of popular culture or is it here to stay forever? How does this dynamic traversal affect game design? And has Mario, in fact, been doing parkour this whole time? […]

    1 h 10 min

  6. 17/07/2019

    Episode 49: Minor Issues 2

    Steve and Jarrod tackle issues with some of video games’ minor mechanics such as, Ladders: How do they work? Metroidvania: Guess who’s back and Closets: What lives in yours? We also discuss the state of the show and exciting new possibilities for Gbfeature moving forward. Send your feedback to podcast@gbfeature.com or reach out @Gbfeature on […]

    1 h 5 min

  7. 11/06/2019

    Episode 48: Detective Vision

    Special Guest: Carolyn Petit is the Managing Editor at Feminist Frequency and on this episode we’re on the case of Detective Vision in games. Why have we seen so many recent games use this mechanic? Does it change the way a player perceives the world that they’re in? And how many episodes in a row […]

    4 h 5 min

  8. 29/05/2019

    Episode 47: Crafting

    Special Guest: Chandana Ekanayake is the creative director with Outerloop Games, the team behind the VR game Falcon Age. He soars his way over a discussion about Crafting systems in games. How does crafting tie into the rest of a game’s mechanics, what does it mean to create in order to destroy and why did video […]

    1 h 36 min
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Each episode we discuss and explore popular video game mechanics with guests from all over the video games industry and take your comments and questions

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  • Création
    Game Breaking Feature
  • Années d’activité
    2017 - 2020
  • Épisodes
    59
  • Classification
    Contenu explicite
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