What’s involved in the making of a charming, inclusive, and remarkably funny dating sim?<\/p>\n
Magic Notion\u00a0founder Richard Franke\u00a0explained just that at GDC 2015 when he took the stage to chart\u00a0the development of the company’s drag queen-hosted mobile dating sim Kitty Powers’ Matchmaker.<\/em><\/p>\n Matchmaker\u00a0<\/em>was his\u00a0first indie project\u00a0after almost 20 years making “big” console games, and in a very personal story, Franke\u00a0(a “close personal friend” of Kitty Powers herself!) covered\u00a0how he dealt with inclusiveness, making comedy work in a game, designing a compelling dating game, and how to keep your wig on when all around are losing theirs.<\/p>\n It was a fabulous talk that touched on subjects rarely covered in these sorts of postmortem presentations, so if you missed it back in 2015 don’t miss out on your chance to now\u00a0watch Franke’s talk\u00a0completely 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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What’s involved in the making of a charming, inclusive, and remarkably funny dating sim? Magic Notion\u00a0founder Richard Franke\u00a0explained just that at GDC 2015 when he took the stage to chart\u00a0the development of the company’s drag queen-hosted mobile dating sim Kitty Powers’ Matchmaker. Matchmaker\u00a0was his\u00a0first indie project\u00a0after almost 20 years making “big” console games, and in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12345","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\/12345","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=12345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}