Slides

• Don’t Blow It: Successful Franchises [video] (GDC, 2004)
• Play Early, Play Often: Prototyping Civ 4 [video] (GDC, 2006)
• A Work in Progress (AIIDE, 2007)
• Playing to Lose: AI and Civilization [video] (GDC, 2008)
• Can Games Matter? (Stanford, 2009)
• Theme is Not Meaning [video] (GDC, 2010)
• Strategy Games! [video] (PRACTICE, 2013)
• A Study in Transparency: How Board Games Matter [video] (GDC, 2014)
• Offworld Trading Company: An RTS Without Guns [video] (GDC, 2017)
• Know Your Inheritance [video] (GDC, 2018)
• My Elephant in the Room: An Old World Design Postmortem [video] (GDC, 2022)
• You Have No Idea How Hard It Is To Run A Sweatshop (GDC, 2023)