3rd Annual Game Developers Choice Online Awards

Special Event  

A Theory of Fun 10 Years Later
by Raph Koster (Playdom, San Diego)
Design  

Age of Empires Online: Radical Transparency Clearly Works
by Kevin Perry (Microsoft)
Customer Experience  

Behind the Curtain: Using MMO Game Systems to Tell Bioware Stories
by Damion Schubert (Bioware Austin)
Design  

Beyond the Leaderboard, an Enterprise View
by Alan O'Connor (salesforce.com)
Gamification Day  

Bootstrapping 101: How College Kids Built a Thriving Game Company in Und...
by Justin Beck (PerBlue)
Business and Marketing  

Building a Successful Online Customer Support Program From Scratch
by Jason Livingston (Independent)
Customer Experience  

Building the Scalable Platform for SWTOR [Available For Free Thanks To G...
by Dave Moore (BioWare)
Production  

Building Transmedia Worlds in Halo 4
by Armando Troisi (343 Industries)
Game Narrative Summit  

Castleville Postmortem: What Went Right and Wrong
by Bruce Shelley (Zynga)
Design  

Classic Game Postmortem: Meridian 59
by Damion Schubert (Bioware Austin)
Design  

Classic Game Postmortem: Meridian 59
by Damion Schubert (Bioware Austin)
Design  

Classic Game Postmortem: Ultima Online
by Rich Vogel (Independent)
Design  

Classic Game Postmortem: Ultima Online
by Rich Vogel (Independent)
Design  

Compiling C++ and C# Games for the Web
by Kevin Gadd (Squared Interactive)
Programming  

Concept to Reality: Creating and Growing PopCap's Solitaire Blitz
by Jared Neuss (PopCap Games)
Business and Marketing  

Cramming an Epic Gaming Universe into a Portable Phone
by Alexander Seropian (Industrial Toys)
Game Narrative Summit  

Creatively Bypassing the Limitations of HTML5 as a Gaming Platform (Avai...
by Kevin Moot (The Nerdery)
Programming  

Devops: Bringing Development and Operations Together for Better Everything
by Bryant Durrell (Independent)
Production  

Ear to the Ground - MMO Community Feedback & Metrics for Decision Making
by Petur Oskarsson (CCP)
Customer Experience  

Environmental Storytelling: Indices and the Art of Leaving Traces
by Clara Fernandez Vara (MIT)
Game Narrative Summit  

Everything I Needed To Know About Community Management, I Learned From G...
by Linda Carlson (Sony Online Entertainment)
Customer Experience  

FarmVille's Golden Goose
by Abhinav Agrawal (Zynga)
Production  

Faster, Cheaper, Better: Deeply Integrated Game Mechanics
by Shannon Perkins (Wired.com)
Gamification Day  

For Women, by... Men?
by Jill Schneiderman (SGN)
Design  

Free-to-Play: Driving the Future of MMOs
by John Smedley (Sony Online Entertainment)
Business and Marketing  

Game Design is Business Design
by Ethan Levy (FamousAspect)
Design  

Getting Storefront Placement for Discoverability
by Jason Ing (Microsoft)
Business and Marketing  

Greetings, Troubleshooter: Living in a Gameful World
by Sebastian Deterding (Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research, Hamburg University)
Gamification Day  

Guild Wars 2: Finding Our Voice
by Bobby Stein (ArenaNet)
Game Narrative Summit  

Guild Wars 2: Programming the Next Generation Online World
by Cameron Dunn (ArenaNet)
Programming  

How to Build a Company to Weather Any Storm
by Gary Gattis (Spacetime Studios)
Business and Marketing  

Indiana Jones Adventure World: Narrative for Social Games
by Jonathon Myers (Zynga)
Game Narrative Summit  

It's Not Your Game, It's Me: How a Woman's Taste in Games May Change As ...
by Terry Redfield (Real Life Plus)
Design  

Lag Sucks: Making Online Gaming Faster with NoSQL, and without Breaking ...
by Robert Greene (Versant Corporation)
Programming  

Management as Game Design: People are Players Not Pieces
by Joshua Howard (Microsoft Studios)
Production  

Managing Multi-site Development Teams
by Bill McGehee (GameSim Technologies)
Production  

Marketing Casual and Social Games on iOS
by William Volk (PlayScreen, LLC)
Smartphone and Tablet Games Summit  

Monetizing Economy Based Free-to-Play Games
by Teut Weidemann (Ubisoft Blue Byte)
Design  

Moving a Games Company from Gut Feeling to Metrics
by Lars Janssen (Travian Games GmbH)
Business and Marketing  

Objects of Desire- Improving Engagement, Monetization, and Virality Thro...
by Emmanuel Valdez (Appy Entertainment Inc.)
Design  

Occult Game Design: An Initiation into Secrets and Mysteries
by Jeff Howard (Dakota State University)
Game Narrative Summit  

Playdom's Blackwood & Bell Mysteries: The Nutshell Narrative Case
by Martha Sapeta (Playdom)
Game Narrative Summit  

Public Relations 101: Make Your Own Media Magic
by Valerie Massey (CLARA)
Business and Marketing  

Short Attention Span Theatre - Writing for Child Gamers
by Elizabeth McLaren (1st Playable Productions)
Game Narrative Summit  

Simultaneous iOS and Android Development with Unity3D
by Ralph Barbagallo (FLARB LLC)
Programming  

Social Media Legal Landmines
by Ryan Garcia (Dell Inc.)
Customer Experience  

Start Playing the Mobile Distribution Game on YouTube
by Jarek Wilkiewicz (YouTube)
Business and Marketing  

The Challenges (and Promise!) of Multiplatform Production
by Adam Gutterman (Unity Technologies)
Production  

The Lessons I Learned from Making FarmVille and CityVille
by Mark Skaggs (Zynga)
Design  

The Other White Meat: Design Architecture for Sandbox Games
by Matthew Woodward (CCP Games)
Design  

Turkish Delight - Monetizing a Free2Play MMO in an Emerging Market
by Rahul Sandil (GamersFirst)
Business and Marketing  

Ultima Forever: Reimagining a Classic
by Paul Barnett (BioWare-Mythic)
Design  

Understanding Player Motivation: Applying Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory t...
by Armin Ronacher (Fireteam)
Customer Experience  

Why Erlang?
by Henning Diedrich (Eonblast Corporation)
Programming  

Writing the Romance-able NPC: ICING the Content Cake
by Heidi McDonald (Schell Games)
Game Narrative Summit  

Writing The Unsung Experiences: Gender In Game Storytelling
by Jenn Frank (Infinite Lives)
Game Narrative Summit