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GCAP 2021 will run online from Monday the 4th of October, to Wednesday the 6th.

The theme for Games Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP) 2021 is Raising the Bar.

The Australian game development industry is poised to go beyond their established limits. United, we can raise our potential, reach for success and smash expectations both professionally and personally.

We are ready to ‘Raise the Bar’ – to grow, mature, move forward and build on our reputation as both a highly creative and skilled sector, as well as a thriving community.

Please join IGEA at GCAP 2021 as we connect and support the Australian games industry. We will share knowledge, education, and best practice, plus facilitate connection and communication as we all aim high and Raise the Bar.
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Wednesday, October 6 • 12:00pm - 12:50pm
Lessons Learned while Building The Friendly Dialogue System

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We’ve been building Yarn Spinner, the open source dialogue tool used in BAFTA and IGF winning games, for over half of our studio’s existence. In fact, it’s turned into the main thing that our studio does, which is a little surprising, considering we give the whole thing away for free.

In this talk, we’ll share the lessons we’ve learned about building high-quality tools, operating an open-source project, and supporting a huge number of game development teams. We’ll look at hard-earned info that’s relevant to tools developers at studios at every scale, as well as more specialised takeaways, and while our main example is a dialogue tool, just about everything we’re talking about applies to every field of game development.

We’ll look at the problem of building great tools from a variety of perspectives: from the technical side, from the community management side, and from the business side. Finally, we’ll talk about how to apply all of this to the kinds of challenges you’re facing on your project and in your studio.
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Jon Manning

Secret Lab
Jon Manning is the cofounder of independent game development studio Secret Lab. He's working on the critically acclaimed award-winning adventure game Night in the Woods, which includes his interactive dialogue system Yarn Spinner. He's written a whole bunch of books for O'Reilly about... Read More →

Wednesday October 6, 2021 12:00pm - 12:50pm AEDT
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