Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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What goes into your personal style of game development? Sometimes themes and methods of creating games are overt, worn on our sleeves, publicly announced. In other cases, there are less obvious motifs: recurring patterns, interests, and ideas that surface from unconscious artistry into experiences of play. Join us as Professor Shawn Pierre discusses examples and emerging taxonomies of the “secret north stars” of game development, that we often don’t even notice pulling us along as guiding lights until after we’re done.

This talk was streamed live at twitch.tv/NYUGameCenter on Thursday, April 7th, 2022

Splash music is Solace by Qix provided to us by Martin Nayeri qixx.bandcamp.com/releases