When developing a game that has 13 different stories in it, each with its own unique art style and gameplay mechanic, a lot of time is spent working on (and throwing out) prototypes. So there were a lot of challenges when\u00a0creating <i>What Remains of Edith Finch<\/i> and turning it into one cohesive narrative.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In this GDC 2018 session, Giant Sparrow’s Ian Dallas talks about how he and his team approached prototyping What Remains of Edith Finch.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Dallas explains that\u00a0the goal was for each mechanic to be something players had never seen before,\u00a0but it had to be intuitive enough to grasp without tutorials.<\/p>\n It’s\u00a0an insightful talk that’s definitely worth watching, so developers\u00a0shouldn’t miss the\u00a0opportunity to do so now that it’s\u00a0freely available on 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 company Informa<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When developing a game that has 13 different stories in it, each with its own unique art style and gameplay mechanic, a lot of time is spent working on (and throwing out) prototypes. So there were a lot of challenges when\u00a0creating <i>What Remains of Edith Finch<\/i> and turning it into one cohesive narrative.\u00a0 In this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69676","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\/69676","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=69676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}