My GDC 2024 speak Revisiting Fun: 20 Years of a Theory of Fun is now posted right here.
Once once more, I had a whole lot of enjoyable drawing cartoon heads of heaps of people that function within the speak.
The speak actually is a direct sequel to the one from a decade in the past, Ten Years Later. Unlike final time, there isn’t any up to date version simply but, although I used to be requested by a number of individuals if there was!
Since the unique guide got here out, it has gone from being controversial, to being dogma to insurgent towards, to being “obvious” in keeping with many. It’s obtainable in 9 languages, and continues to promote nearly in addition to it did when it first got here out.
The speak principally covers objections and considerations individuals have had with the unique guide, a dialogue of a few of the newer science and methods wherein is updates or makes out of date components of the unique, and a hefty part on learn how to apply the rules within the guide in a sensible approach. This latter one attracts closely on the current article on the NYT recreation Connections, but additionally on a number of different talks I’ve given within the final decade or so.
Someday, I’ll get round to the three sequels I’ve deliberate out in my head!
