Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Every game designer wants to share a value with their players. We feel the power of love and loss in Ori and the Blind Forest and are transformed when we realize we’ll be dying many thousands of times in Celeste in order to succeed. In this talk, you’ll learn how to analyze a game from a value perspective, and explore what it means to apply the Value-At-Play (VAP) method (by the TiltFactor Laboratory) by following the journey of a small studio looking to instill more love, curiosity, and wonder into the world. Leave this talk with a sense of how to integrate the values you want to share.
Every game designer wants to share a value with their players. We feel the power of love and loss in Ori and the Blind Forest and are transformed when we realize we’ll be dying many thousands of times in Celeste in order to succeed. In this talk, you’ll learn how to analyze a game from a value perspective, and explore what it means to apply the Value-At-Play (VAP) method (by the TiltFactor Laboratory) by following the journey of a small studio looking to instill more love, curiosity, and wonder into the world. Leave this talk with a sense of how to integrate the values you want to share.
