GDC 15: Advancing the genre of comedy games with Zoe Quinn
hile the concept of a video game striving to be funny is far from groundbreaking, titles that veer more towards everything humorous has yet to be recognized as its own genre, and some developers are aiming to change that.
Zoe Quinn took to the stage as she campaigned that the science of comedy can be adapted into the format of interactive media like video games successfully if given the right attention to the details that compose the humor.
While the irony of an independent developer who’s primarily known for releasing a title simulates depression wasn’t lost on her, she muses that the struggle of her emotional conditions have helped her to appreciate the nuance of comedy, and she presses forward with some ideas that can help this budding design of gameplay flourish in today’s market of indie games.
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