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GDC Programming Keynote: John Carmack

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Deferred Shading on DX9 Class Hardware and the Xbox

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Common C++ Performance Mistakes in Games

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Game Design Challenge: The Love Story

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Real-Time Global Illumination

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Practical Implementation of High Dynamic Range Rendering

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From Visual Anti-Establishment to Ubiquity and Back

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Destruction on a Diet

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The Making of the Official Counter-Strike Bot

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Game Design Challenge: The Love Story

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Adventures in Character Design

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Behavioral Game Design

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Requirements for a Next Generation Massively Multiplaye...

Stephenson, Peter

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Seven Years of Max Payne

Peltier, Thomas

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Common C++ Performance Mistakes in Games

Peltier, Justin

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Developing Wireless Location-Based Games

Peltier, Justin

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Fast Yet Realistic Deformation and Fracture

Peltier, Thomas

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Game Mobility Requires Code Portability

Peltier, Justin

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Audio Director to the Rescue

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Designing an Interactive Music System

Stephenson, Peter

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Practical Shadows: Out of the Demo and Into the Engine

Peltier, Thomas

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Procedural Shaders: A Feature Animation Perspective

Peltier, Justin

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Real World Multi-Threading in PC Games

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Reusing Shading for Interactive Global Illumination

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Revisiting the Standard Joint Hierarchy: Improving Real...

Peltier, Justin

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The Collection and Applications of Metrics in an MMP Ga...

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The Physics-Sound System of Deus Ex: Invisible War <...

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The Emotional Heart of Art Direction

Peltier, Justin

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Beyond Fun: Setting Aesthetic Goals and Sticking to Them

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Cross Platform User Interface Development

Peltier, Justin

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Designing Games for Coin-Op and Internet Gambling

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The Civilization Series: How to Maintain a Success...

Stephenson, Peter

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Entering the World: Cognitive Dissonance and Immersion in...

Stephenson, Peter

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Island Thunder and Raven Shield: Creating...

Peltier, Justin

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SciFi MMPs: Lessons from Star Wars Galaxies and

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Storytelling in Earth & Beyond

Stephenson, Peter

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Why We Play Games: The Four Keys to Player Experience

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Minefields in Videogame Intellectual Property Protection

Stephenson, Peter

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Mobile Games: Lessons from Online Games

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Pitching an Original IP: Notes from the Field

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Spare No Expense: Starbucks and Aeron Chairs for Everyone

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The End Game: How Top Developers Sold Their Studios

Peltier, Thomas

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The I-Spy Book of Developer Contract Law

Peltier, Thomas

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The Negotiation

Peltier, Justin

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The Well-Fed Freelancer: A Survival Guide in 24 Easy Le...

Peltier, Justin

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Music Licensing for Videogames: How Popular Music and Ar...

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Understanding the Elements of Employee Compensation

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The Philosophical Roots of Computer Game Design

Peltier, Thomas

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Mixing and Mastering Music and Sound for Games

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Audio Asset Management for Large Projects

Peltier, Justin

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The Virtual and Mixed Media Orchestra for Game Music

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A Road Map for Peace: Redefining the Publisher- Develop...

Peltier, Justin

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Building Value in Your Company: One Small Studio's Appr...

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Doing Business with Europe: A Survivor's Guide

Dhiman, Sanjeev Kumar

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Everything You Need to Know to Make Money in Coin-Op

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Follow The Money: Understanding Console Publishers

Lightbown, David

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10 Tricks from Psychology for Making Better Characters

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14 Ways of Drawing Players in with an Opening Cinematic

Bradley, Gordon

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Building Big Licensed Games with Big Teams

Lefebvre, Bernard

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Character Rigger's Cookbook

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Jak's Makeover for JakII: Why the Dramatic New L...

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What to Do When it All Goes to Hell: Lessons Learned Sh...

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The State of the Web and Downloadable Games Industry: A 2...

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How to Get More Coverage for Your Company and Titles

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Realistic and Fast Cloud Rendering in Computer Games

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Automation Recipes: Automation Ideas to Save Project Ti...

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Growing a Dedicated Tools Programming Team: From Bal...

Glassenberg, Sam

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Artist Management in a Small Games Company

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Winning the Race Against Pirates And Crackers: Next Gen...

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Using Verlet Integration and Constraints in a Six Degree ...

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From Script to Joystick: World-Building 101

Ruckman, Sharon

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Great Games in 50k: Three Addictive Mobile Phone Titles

Peltier, Thomas

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Would the Real Emergent Gameplay Please Stand Up?

Fitzgerald, Todd

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Triangulation: A Schizophrenic Approach to Game Design

Halpern, Pamela

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Experimental Gameplay Workshop

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Advanced Real-Time Reflectance

Peltier, Thomas

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Immigration for Foreign Games Professionals in the Age ...

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The State of Non-Linear Audio for Interactive Media

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Starting a New Studio

Broome, Richard E.

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Port is a Four-Letter Word: The Challenges of Redesign...

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Zoological Gardens: The Science of Creature Design

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Creating the Right Mix of Static Versus Dynamic Content...

Anderson, Scott

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How to Budget Audio: 'What Am I Forgetting?'

Tafoya, William

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Audio for Mobile Panel

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Sound Design: Strategies for Success

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Creating a Monster RPG: The Light and the Dark Side of De...

Murray, William

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Managing the Hydra: Successfully Running Multiple Proje...

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Producing Motion Capture and Animation

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Beyond Finite State Machines: Managing Complex, Intermi...

III, Joseph W. Popinski

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Music Publishing: A Primer for Game Developers and Comp...

Conorich, Douglas

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Accurate Prediction and Other Organizational Myths

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The Full Spectrum Warrior Camera System

Peltier, Thomas

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Producing Orchestral Scores for Games

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Producing Programmers: Strategies for Managing Technica...

REFALO, Pierre-Luc

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Real-Time Global Illumination

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Motion Synthesis

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Artificial Potential Fields for the Control of Navigation...

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Open Spaces and How to Find Them in New Game Ideas

Peltier, Thomas

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High Dynamic Range Lighting

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The Sound Design Methodology of Medal of Honor

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Game Development Modeling with 3ds Max

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Game Prototyping with 3ds Max

Strickland, Zoe

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Anatomy of a 2D Side-Scroller

Rasmussen, Michael

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Building a Million Particle System

Jackson, Cheryl

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Real-Time Translucent Animated Objects

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Wallace and Gromit in Project Zoo: A Postmortem o...

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The Interface: How to Create an Effective Audio Schedule

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Master Your Game's Domain: Data-Driven Asset Management

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The Impact of Middleware Technologies on Your Game Develo...

Peltier, Thomas

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Entertainment Experience First, Videogame Second: The Mak...

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Production Through Collaboration: Escalating Demands on t...

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Motion Capture-driven Simulation for Characters

Schlosser, Lisa

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Adventures in Character Design

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Game Design: Risk and Return

Grillo, Christopher

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Game Soundtracks: Structuring Your Deal Like the Movies

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Digital Painting, and The Narrowing Gap between Games and...

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The Secret of Pac-Man's Success: Making Fun First

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Practical Implementation of High Dynamic Range Rendering

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State of the Art: Anatomy of 3D Level Design

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SOCOM II: Creating a Compelling Online Console Game

Murphy, Richard

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ArtModJam

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Creating Water and Fluid Effects For Video Games

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The Easy Route To Console Online

Peltier, Thomas

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User-testing in a Hostile Environment: Overcoming Apathy ...

Stackpole, William

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Interfacing With Hollywood: Challenges and Opportunities

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Four at a Time: Techniques for Maximizing Enemy and Objec...

McFadden, Chuck

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Republic: Lessons Learned

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Using External Contractors Effectively

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Deferred Shading on DX9 Class Hardware and the Xbox

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Adding Spherical Harmonic Lighting to the Sushi Engine

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Cross-Platform Audio Using Interactive XMF

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A Peek Behind the Shoji: Japan's Videogame Market Today

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Light Scattering: Oh, that Looks Cool! Can we Have it in ...

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The History of Animation

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True Crime: Streets of L.A.-Bringing Crime to the City of...

Bhattacharya, Rishi

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The Interesting Thing About Bishops: Simulation Boundarie...

Bhattacharya, Rishi

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Practical Physics for Articulated Characters

Bhattacharya, Rishi

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Industry & Government: Working Together

Bhattacharya, Rishi

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Integrating Physics into a Modern Game Engine

Bhattacharya, Rishi

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AI and Design: How AI Enables Designers

Bhattacharya, Rishi

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Outdoor Jungle Vegetation: Battlefield Vietnam

Bhattacharya, Rishi

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Programming the PlayStation Portable (PSP)

Fletcher, Bryan

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Game Design Methods of ICO

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The Evolution of a Franchise: The Legend of Zelda

Michaelson, Jay

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From Visual Anti-Establishmentarianism To Ubiquity and Back

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Game Narrative: What Would Aristotle Do?

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What Lies Ahead in the Ever-evolving Interactive Entertai...

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HR in the Studio

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Re-awakening a Classic: Prince of Persia: A Case S...

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Producing the Characters and Creatures of Ultima X Odyssey

Brathwaite, Brenda

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Acting for Animators

Conorich, Douglas

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What Got Left out of Battlefield 1942

Brixius, Dennis

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Maya for Games - Tools & Pipelines in Maya

Luallen, Matthew

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Hi Res Modeling for Consoles in Maya

Rafferty, Wendi

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Lemke's Algorithm, The Hammer In Your Math Toolbox?

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Visualizing Sly Cooper

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AI: Gameplay & Design: A Marriage of Heaven or Hell?

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Storytellers vs. Puzzle-Makers: New Traits of Successful ...

Tipton, W. Hord

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Developing and Mastering 36 Different Sku's of One Title ...

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Workflow Convergence: How Motion Picture Pipelines Are Me...

Jr, Robert J. Thornberry

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A Candid Look at the Issues and Rewards of Bleeding Edge ...

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Encouraging Innovation in Game Development

Herold, Rebecca

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Tips and Tricks for 3ds max 6 in Games

Hallam-Baker, Phillip

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The Hobbit: A Case Study

Michael, Christopher

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Prepping for the Transition: Will You Be Ready?

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IGDA Quality of Life White Paper Unveiling

Abrenio, Gregory

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Make Better Criticism: A Mature Form of Cultural Analysis

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Towards Relevant Research: Collaboration 101

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ESRB Explained: Behind the Ratings

Richardson, Robert

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Learning by Design: Games as Learning Machines