| Session Name: | Don't Starve: Creating Community Around an Antisocial Game |
| Speaker(s): | Kevin Forbes |
| Company Name(s): | Klei Entertainment |
| Track / Format: | Design |
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| Overview: | In early 2011, Klei Entertainment started development on a new IP game called Don't Starve. Having worked successfully with traditional publishers for our previous console titles, we decided to experiment with a different approach. Don't Starve is an uncompromising survival game, whereby players are thrown into the wilderness and left to fend for themselves, without any instruction. Through a rapid development process that was tightly bound to community building, Don't Starve went from a 16-hour game jam to a million-unit success. This talk recounts the game's development, from its concept to eventual success, describing its unlikely rise, and sharing both learnings and data around community engagement. |
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