GCAP 2021
2021-10-04..2021-10-06
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GCAP ·
[GCAP 2016, GCAP 2017, GCAP 2019, GCAP 2020, GCAP 2021, GCAP 2022, GCAP 2022: Ambition, GCAP 2023: Empower, GCAP 2024, GCAP 2025]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Falafel, Hummus and Baba Ghanoush: A Middle Eastern Perspective on Cultural Engagement Through Games | Meena Shamaly | 45m |
How do you represent cultural elements in your game from a culture that isn’t yours? Who is in the room with you when you're trying to?
Composer, performer… | ||
| The Player and the Pentacle: Folkloric Motifs for Narrative Design | Nick Jones | 41m |
Argues for a concrete narrative framework called the pentacle model that maps five design axes—law, deep lore, narrative, plot, play—to keep story and gameplay… | ||
| Deserts, Desserts & Deserted Islands- Design Deepdive into Evolving “The Sims” Mobile Title Features | Penelope Davison, Jack Sinclair | 43m |
Studio teams turn player feedback into concrete features: a baking contest (Sweet Treat Showdown) adds cutscenes and seasonal kitchen props; live events… | ||
| Giving Life to a Dead Language - A Unique Approach to Worldbuilding | alex butterfield | 45m |
Phantom Abyss ships with carved symbols and 27 story panels; players build translation tools and a website and crack the system in weeks, posting over 10,000… | ||
| Polish in Prototype | luke lewich | 41m |
Argues that targeted polish measurably reduces prototype risk: a quick procedural mesh workaround exposes a second UV channel in Unreal instead of months of… | ||
| From Mod to Metacritic Hit: 10 Lessons I Learned Making The Forgotten City | Nick Pearce | 38m |
The Forgotten City moves from a 3.7 million‑download mod to a standalone game with a core team of three, four and a half years of development and about $100k… | ||
| Queerbaiting: Once Bitten, Twice as Shy | Samara-Jade Sendek | 37m |
Defines three concrete failure modes — executive meddling, botched localization or symbolism, and accidental/unexamined queer cues — and gives specific game… | ||
| nothing matches | ||