GDC Presentation Reviews
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Reviewing GDC programming presentations based on my own arbitrary criteria, in roughly chronological order. Not affiliated with GDC. A score of > 5 roughly means I’d recommend watching/listening. < 5 roughly means I wouldn’t. I review the presentation in the context of today, not in the context of which they were presented. The purpose of this account is to recommend talks people can watch nowadays. (Q&A portions of presentations are not reviewed - just the main talks only.)
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They’re generating more planets than they could possibly test, so how do they know if they’re doing a good job at generating them?
There were artists working on the game; what artistic control were they given? Did they just paint textures in photoshop all day, or did they get into the guts of the stochastic algorithms?
Review: 6/10 I liked how they broke down the world generation into tractable passes, but I was still left wanting at the end for a discussion about creative control.
