Social Depth of Location Based Play in The Walking Dead: Our World

In this 2019 GDC Mobile Summit session, Next Games Markus Montola and Sulka Haro detail how they added layers of decisionmaking depth into the simple core loop of The Walking Dead: Our World, encouraging players to balance opportunities and risk to optimize their gameplay. Register for GDC 2022, inperson in San Francisco, March 2125, 2022: Join the GDC mailing list: Follow GDC on Twitter: GDC talks cover a range of developmental topics including game design, programming, audio, visual arts, business management, production, online games, and much more. We post a fresh GDC video every day. Subscribe to the channel to stay on top of regular updates, and check out GDC Vault for thousands of more indepth talks from our archives.