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Session Name: You're Not Broken: Finding Your Creative Way Through Difficult Times
Speaker(s): Laralyn McWilliams
Company Name(s): Skydance Interactive
Track / Format: Advocacy

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Overview: During times of turmoil, change and grief, it's easy to blame yourself for creative failures. Everyone reacts differently to these sorts of stress but there's one thing everyone has in common: it makes creativity almost impossible. If you're fundamentally broken, your creative work is fundamentally broken too. Making great games means making ourselves whole again. This talk comes from personal experience, going through multiple rounds of cancer now deemed incurable. It provides tools to recognize when you're deep in the well of darkness, and methods to help reclaim your creativity. Whether you're able to make the arduous climb out of the well or you must find beauty in a journey spent largely in darkness, you can move forward. You can create again. But first comes forgiveness.

GDC 2018

Laralyn McWilliams

Skydance Interactive

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