Reaching out and fostering a positive relationship with a community of players has been made easier with the help of social media, but it can often feel impersonal. How can a community manager navigate online spaces to create a unique, working relationship with their community? Ubisoft’s\u00a0Gabe Graziani\u00a0recommends turning to the unconventional.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In this 2015 GDC session,\u00a0Graziani examines how traditionally counterintuitive practices can help developers define and nurture a passionate community.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0talk goes over the ways Graziani\u00a0initially interacted with fans during his time working on Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood<\/em>, like taking questions players posted to\u00a0Ubisoft’s social channels and answering them for a\u00a0Q&A video which was uploaded\u00a0to YouTube. “They key thing for these is that we were constantly refining our approach,” explains Graziani. “We wanted to know from our community how we could service them the best.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Community managers interested to see if these counterintuitive practices could work for their projects can now\u00a0watch the talk completely free via the official GDC YouTube channel!<\/a><\/p>\n In addition to this presentation, the\u00a0GDC Vault<\/a>\u00a0and its accompanying\u00a0YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent\u00a0Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC\u00a0already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via\u00a0a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the\u00a0GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>. Finally, current subscribers with access issues can\u00a0contact GDC Vault technical support<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gamasutra and GDC are sibling organizations under parent UBM Americas<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reaching out and fostering a positive relationship with a community of players has been made easier with the help of social media, but it can often feel impersonal. How can a community manager navigate online spaces to create a unique, working relationship with their community? Ubisoft’s\u00a0Gabe Graziani\u00a0recommends turning to the unconventional.\u00a0 In this 2015 GDC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}