Anna Kipnis's guest appearances

Anna Kipnis

Kotaku Splitscreen

Script Lock

Downtime Podcast - Gaming & the Like

Going Analog Podcast

Tim Schafer

Ashly Burch

Matthew Burns

Meg Jayanth

Tanya X

Elizabeth Hargrave

Jeremy Howard

Evan Narcisse

Chris Avellone

Kim Swift

Frank Cifaldi

Aaryn Flynn

Tina Amini

Nathan Grayson

Nathan Fillion

OwlTail

Anna Kipnis (ex-Double Fine) joins us to discuss games with uniquely human interactions, while Nick shares his favorite modern pub games, Christina highlights games that reveal players’ personalities, Shoe muses on how working in video games has influenced our board game preferences. Games we discussed: Intro: Orleans Yokohama Scoville Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done Small World   Nick's Topic:   Skull Liar's Dice Kobayakawa Lie The Mind Illusion A Fake Artist Goes to New York Dead Last Just One A Game of Thrones: Hand of the King   Christina's Topic:  Pandemic Legacy Pandemic Ascension Lost Cities Werewolf Shadows Over Camelot Coup Battlestar Galactica Secret Hitler The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31   Anna's Topic:   Codenames Dead of Winter   Shoe's Topic:  Gloomhaven TIME Stories Puerto Rico   Round-Up: Hanabi Rising Sun Doro-Doko

Anna Kipnis (ex-Double Fine) joins us to discuss games with uniquely human interactions, while Nick shares his favorite modern pub games, Christina highlights games that reveal players’ personalities, Shoe muses on how working in video games has influenced our board game preferences. Games we discussed: Intro: Orleans Yokohama Scoville Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done Small World   Nick's Topic:   Skull Liar's Dice Kobayakawa Lie The Mind Illusion A Fake Artist Goes to New York Dead Last Just One A Game of Thrones: Hand of the King   Christina's Topic:  Pandemic Legacy Pandemic Ascension Lost Cities Werewolf Shadows Over Camelot Coup Battlestar Galactica Secret Hitler The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31   Anna's Topic:   Codenames Dead of Winter   Shoe's Topic:  Gloomhaven TIME Stories Puerto Rico   Round-Up: Hanabi Rising Sun Doro-Doko

17: Anna Kipnis (ex-Double Fine) discusses games with uniquely human interactions, plus modern pub games, games that reveal players’ personalities, and how working in video games has influenced our board game preferences

Kirk and Jason are back at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco with a new trio of special guests.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Kirk and Jason are back at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco with a new trio of special guests. See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

GDC 2017, Day 2: Chris Avellone, Anna Kipnis, Meg Jayanth

Ian Gil

Ian (Design Director at E-Line Media and has worked on Gamestar Mechanic, Gamestar Mechanic Jr, and Never Alone) and Anna (Senior Gameplay Programmer at Double Fine and has worked on such games as Psychonauts, Brütal Legend, Broken Age, and Headlander, and was the lead on Dear Leader during Amnesia Fortnight 2014) join us to discuss falling into the industry, the benefits of an education that doesn't just focus on programming/computer science, the work involved with implementing dialogue,  planning for localization, Never Alone's development, cultural expression in games, dialogue systems, why text to speech isn't the future (for now), the costs of voiced dynamic dialogue, authored vs simulationist vs player-centric approaches to story in games, and a couple of other rad topics! Our Guests on the Internet Ian's Twitter. Anna's Twitter. Stuff We Talked About Never Alone Amnesia Fortnight 2014 Dialogue Systems in Double Fine Games Molyjam: How Twitter Jokes Can Save Video Games Making the World of Firewatch Netrunner Crusader Kings 2 Dwarf Fortress' Creator on How He's 42% Towards Simulating Existence Practice 2015: Anna Kipnis The Novelist by Kent Hudson 7 Grand Steps Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges Viriconium by M. John Harrison The Yawhg by Emily Carroll &amp; Damian Sommer Our theme music was composed by 2Mello, and our logo was created by Lily Nishita.

Ian (Design Director at E-Line Media and has worked on Gamestar Mechanic, Gamestar Mechanic Jr, and Never Alone) and Anna (Senior Gameplay Programmer at Double Fine and has worked on such games as Psychonauts, Brütal Legend, Broken Age, and Headlander, and was the lead on Dear Leader during Amnesia Fortnight 2014) join us to discuss falling into the industry, the benefits of an education that doesn't just focus on programming/computer science, the work involved with implementing dialogue, planning for localization, Never Alone's development, cultural expression in games, dialogue systems, why text to speech isn't the future (for now), the costs of voiced dynamic dialogue, authored vs simulationist vs player-centric approaches to story in games, and a couple of other rad topics! Our Guests on the Internet Ian's <a href="https://twitter.com/iangil" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. Anna's <a href="https://twitter.com/doubleanna" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. Stuff We Talked About <a href="http://neveralonegame.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Never Alone</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIhLvue17Sd7Y5qXNqV1wDPtdNPjZ-tw0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amnesia Fortnight 2014</a> <a href="http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1021930/Dialog-Systems-in-Double-Fine" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dialogue Systems in Double Fine Games</a> <a href="http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1018001/Molyjam-How-Twitter-Jokes-Can" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Molyjam: How Twitter Jokes Can Save Video Games</a> <a href="http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1023191/Making-the-World-of" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Making the World of Firewatch</a> <a href="https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/android-netrunner-the-card-game/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Netrunner</a> <a href="http://www.crusaderkings.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crusader Kings 2</a> <a href="http://www.pcgamer.com/dwarf-fortress-creator-on-how-hes-42-towards-simulating-existence/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dwarf Fortress' Creator on How He's 42% Towards Simulating Existence</a> <a href="https://vimeo.com/149287018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Practice 2015: Anna Kipnis</a> <a href="http://www.thenovelistgame.com/author/adminkent/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Novelist by Kent Hudson</a> <a href="http://mousechief.com/7GS/by_Mousechief.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">7 Grand Steps</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Codex-Seraphinianus-Luigi-Serafini/dp/0847842134" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ficciones-Jorge-Luis-Borges/dp/0802130305" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Viriconium-M-John-Harrison/dp/0553383159" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Viriconium by M. John Harrison</a> <a href="http://www.theyawhg.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Yawhg by Emily Carroll &amp; Damian Sommer</a> Our theme music was composed by <a href="http://2mello.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2Mello</a>, and our logo was created by <a href="https://lilynishita.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lily Nishita</a>.

Ian Gil & Anna Kipnis