GDC 2019 Talks Available on GDC Vault

[MDSVeritas]

The moment has arrived!

https://www.gdcvault.com/browse/gdc-19

For those somewhat unfamiliar with the setup for GDC: it's the Game Developer's Conference where a variety of talks about the behind-the-scenes elements of game development happen. Every year talks from the biggest and smallest games around the industry occur, and bring with them a variety of useful insights, discoveries, and interesting tidbits.

While some of these talks are only for members who have full Vault access (these are represented with a star next to the talk), others are simply free and you can give them a look! There's a ton of great info here, whether you're a developer looking to pick up some new tips and tricks, or just a fan curious about a look behind the curtain of some of your favorite games of the past year.

I'd love to take a thread to bring up your favorite talks and the info you find most interesting from this year's GDC! To start it off, here's three great and varied talks you can take a look at right now!

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025746/Making-of-ASTRO-BOT-Rescue

A look at how Astro Bot came together from its creative director!



https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025768/Raising-Atreus-for-Battle-in

Some awesome insight into the behavior of Atreus in God of War (this one is totally biased on my part but I hope you'll indulge me one shout out to my awesome coworker Hayato)



https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025723/Making-Tetris-Effect

A talk going over the development of last year's excellent Tetris Effect.


Feel free to shout out any talks you particularly like from this year!

 

[Okabe]

Been waiting for the DMC5 one

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025764/-Devil-May-Cry-5

 

[Platy]

It has a new Frank Cifaldi one for those who loves to despair about preservation

https://gdcvault.com/play/1025782/It-s-Still-Emulation-Saving

 

[SunBroDave]

of course all of the god of war vids are members only :/

Edit: nvm, not all of them! Cory's 'Reinventing GOW' talk:
https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025786/Reinventing-God-of-War

 

[mutantmagnet]

This is awesome. Going to look at how far back these archives go.

 

[wafflebrain]

Bummer can't find any of the Oculus talks from this year, maybe Facebook put an embargo on those due to potential NDA stuff around the Quest or S :shrugs

 

[dobahking91]

Yes finally :D

 

[DieH@rd]

of course all of the god of war vids are members only :/

Edit: nvm, not all of them! Cory's 'Reinventing GOW' talk:
https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025786/Reinventing-God-of-War

Click to shrink...

Thank you! I wanted to see that talk ever since they announced it.

 

[Windu]

browsing through it, these have caught my eye:

Brain-Computer Interfaces: One Possible Future for How We Play -Valve

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025791/Brain-Computer-Interfaces-One-Possible

Reinventing 'God of War' - Sony Santa Monica Studio

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025786/Reinventing-God-of-War

Subtitles Are Changing, Don't Be Left Behind

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025738/Subtitles-Are-Changing-Don-t

The Making of 'Divinity: Original Sin 2' - Larian Studios

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025734/The-Making-of-Divinity-Original

The Making of the Xbox Adaptive Controller - Microsoft

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1026494/The-Making-of-the-Xbox

The State & Future of AR Games: Rose-Colored Glasses - Niantic

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025779/The-State-Future-of-AR

 

[john titor]

thank you for posting! gonna dive into some of these soon.

 

[gitrektali]

Need to see all those GoW ones. What's the best to start with other than Cory's?

 

[LuigiBlood]

I second about It's Still Emulation. https://gdcvault.com/play/1025782/It-s-Still-Emulation-Saving
A must watch because it touches a lot of subjects about preservation and also what to do in terms of game rereleases, in ways you may have not thought about.

 

[renegade_sylens]

I second about It's Still Emulation. https://gdcvault.com/play/1025782/It-s-Still-Emulation-Saving
A must watch because it touches a lot of subjects about preservation and also what to do in terms of game rereleases, in ways you may have not thought about.

Click to shrink...

Especially timely as we move towards a more streaming feature where you don't own physical versions of the game and are dependent on the publishers for the games....

 

[Siggy]

I was very lucky to attend the Devil May Cry 5 talk. I recommend everyone watch it: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025764/-Devil-May-Cry-5

 

[Kage Maru]

Thank you OP! I'll be diving in when I get the time.

 

[Siggy]

I also went to the Into the Breach Design Post-Mortem which was very informative. The speaker was very open and honest about why they made which decisions and how they feel about them in hindsight: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025772/-Into-the-Breach-Design

There was another good one by Noah Sasso (Iron Galaxy) about fighting game approachability, but what I enjoyed most was the discussion afterwards which wasn't fully recorded, unfortuantely. Here's the talk, though: https://gdcvault.com/play/1025792/-09-to-19-A

 

[Shoozle]

Thanks for that, excited to watch Astro Bots presentation. What a surprise GOTY

 

[JaredTaco]

Was trying to find the Panzer Dragoon Post Mortem and didn't see it. Anyone know if that's available yet?

 

[koshiro]

Was trying to find the Panzer Dragoon Post Mortem and didn't see it. Anyone know if that's available yet?

Click to shrink...

I was just looking for that too. It's here: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025722/Classic-Game-Postmortem-Panzer-Dragoon

 

[Deleted member 2840]

browsing through it, these have caught my eye:

Brain-Computer Interfaces: One Possible Future for How We Play -Valve

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025791/Brain-Computer-Interfaces-One-Possible

Click to shrink...

Noice. Was waiting for this.

 

[Siggy]

I also recommend the Dead Cells Post-Mortem: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025788/-Dead-Cells-What-the

 

[gitrektali]

Oh shit, so that big-ass bird in GoW was a boss fight that they cut. Sad.

 

[KKRT]

Amazing talk from Chris Wilson (Path of Exile creator). I really recommend it.
https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025784/Designing-Path-of-Exile-to

 

[LuigiBlood]

I just watched the other talk that I really wanted to see, Classic Game Postmortem - Lemmings:
https://gdcvault.com/play/1025747/Classic-Game-Postmortem-Lemmings

Really nice talk :)

 

[Wollan]

DualShock 4 prototypes:

 

[Platy]

There was another good one by Noah Sasso (Iron Galaxy) about fighting game approachability, but what I enjoyed most was the discussion afterwards which wasn't fully recorded, unfortuantely. Here's the talk, though: https://gdcvault.com/play/1025792/-09-to-19-A

Click to shrink...

Care to give a tl:dr about the dicussion afterwards?
Like themes or ideas

edit: the video has the questions ... do you mean the "talk afterwards" part where they cut the mic?

 

[lowhighkang_LHK]

I was very lucky to attend the Devil May Cry 5 talk. I recommend everyone watch it: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025764/-Devil-May-Cry-5

Click to shrink...

The bit where Itsuno was talking about his 4 year old self getting super hyped at that 70s robot anime was hilarious.

 

[Shaundakahl]

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025768/Raising-Atreus-for-Battle-in

Some awesome insight into the behavior of Atreus in God of War (this one is totally biased on my part but I hope you'll indulge me one shout out to my awesome coworker Hayato)


Feel free to shout out any talks you particularly like from this year!

Click to shrink...

That whole video was great to see, and as I am currently playing through a new game+ from last year, I can see why the combat works as well as it does. Very insightful.

Thanks for posting the vault links.

 

[Green Yoshi]

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025746/Making-of-ASTRO-BOT-Rescue

A look at how Astro Bot came together from its creative director!

Click to shrink...

Thanks for the link. Really interesting video.

 

[Kaffeemann]

Why do I need to fill out a Free Content Form on some of the free content?

 

[azfaru]

lovely. i was watching a bunch of previous GDC talks while waiting for this year's to be online. what's you guys's favourite ones?

 

[johan]

Thanks for the heads up

 

[Mugy]

I'm saving this thread, really really like these type of talks and conferences. You always learn something interesting

 

[stryke]

Great talk on fashion in video games - full video is free

 

[Tyaren]

I can strongly recommend watching Cory Barlog's aka "Scory SBarlogssss", lol, GDC talk about reinventing GoW. Very interesting, informative, and Cory is quite the entertainer too.

 

[Hey Please]

So does this make us, the seekers of knowledge, Vault Hunters?

 

[thyy]

1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality
https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025766/1-500-Slot-Machines-Walk

Quality is overrated. Disheartened by all of the noise in the mobile ecosystem, speakers Alex Schwartz and Ziba Scott set out to determine the lowest bar for success on App Stores. They flooded the market with over 1,500 auto-generated slot machine games, got 1.6 million installs, made money (!!), received some very strange emails, made it big in Iran, and garnered a stupefying number of good reviews on Google Play. They even enlisted the talents of an honest-to-God MIT statistician.Take a fantastic tour of the weird, dark underbelly of the mobile app market. Marvel as the speakers share their experience with pushing the limits of automation as well as the rate limits of every public API under the sun. Silently judge the questionable ethics of their enterprise. By the end, you may be reconsidering your life choices as Alex and Ziba debate the merits of quantity over quality.

Click to shrink...

 

[KoolAid]

Why do I need to fill out a Free Content Form on some of the free content?

Click to shrink...

That's only for the sponsored ones... and most of the time the form doesn't work lol

 

[More_Badass]

of course all of the god of war vids are members only :/

Edit: nvm, not all of them! Cory's 'Reinventing GOW' talk:
https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025786/Reinventing-God-of-War

Click to shrink...

This one's fantastic, informative, and very candid.

 

[samred]

1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality
https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025766/1-500-Slot-Machines-Walk

Click to shrink...

This. I interviewed the duo about this for Ars, but now that the OC is up, I highly recommend y'all watch it.

 

[Hitoribhoshi]

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025723/Making-Tetris-Effect

A talk going over the development of last year's excellent Tetris Effect.

Click to shrink...

Started watching this yesterday, gf had to leave, wanted to pick this back up today, but it's asking me to log in, wth, so sad I missed this :'(

 

[famikon]

In this GDC 2019 talk, Capcom's Hideaki Itsuno, director of multiple titles in the 'Devil May Cry' series, partners with his colleagues Michiteru Okabe (senior producer) and Matt Walker (producer) to discuss the team's approach to making standout, impressive action games through the lens of Devil May Cry 5.

Click to shrink...

In this GDC 2019 talk, Westwood Studios co-founderLouis Castle, Erik Yeo, lead designer for C&C, Frank Klepacki, Composer for C&C, and, Wetherill, C&C's VP of product development, deliver a Classic Game Postmortem on the landmark real-time strategy game Command & Conquer.

Click to shrink...

 

[Dremorak]

All the animation ones require a subscription :(

 

[Nerun]

Loved the C&C one, straight from the beginning with the original EVA installation style, the live music and stuff sitting in front of a German poster of "Alarmstufe Rot" ;)

 

[Hadok]

The Life is Strange one is not available :(

 

[kanuuna]

Cory's talk on God of War was genuinely hilarious. Gonna have to check up on more of these.

 

[famikon]

In this 2019 GDC talk, Digital Eclipse producer Frank Cifaldi gives practical advice to those keeping old games in print, goes over the current state of video game preservation, and tells you how you can help to make sure video game history never disappears, no matter what your profession is.

Click to shrink...

 

[Yerffej]

Thank you! I wanted to see that talk ever since they announced it.

Click to shrink...

I watched it yesterday on YouTube. I assumed most of these talks end up there.

 

[crimilde]

Love listening to Cory. It turned from a talk into a stand-up comedy half-way through haha.
He's so entertaining.

 

[Wollan]

Cory's God of War 5 wink got the best laughs.