GDC 2018: Designing Games for Twitch, with Ian Milham

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🗓️ 25 March 2018

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Jason and Kirk are still posting pods from their time at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. This time they sat down with S.O.S. creative director (and former Dead Space developer) Ian Milham to talk about how he's building social dynamics into an online survival game. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	We are here at GDC with Ian Millam, who is the creative director of SOS at Outpost Games here in San Francisco,
0:11.3	previously of Vicerol and LucasArts and Crystal Dynamics, a longtime veteran in the video game industry.
0:18.9	People probably know you best from your time on the Dead Space franchise, where you were
0:23.0	heavily involved in all of those games.
0:24.6	Hello, Ian.
0:25.4	Hello, everybody.
0:26.4	Hi, Jason, Hey, Kirk.
0:27.4	Good to be here.
0:28.1	Thank you for coming on the show.
0:30.5	I know you guys are busy getting SOS together.
0:33.6	Yeah, man, running a live game is a 24-7 gig.
0:37.1	Yeah. Yeah, man, running a live game is a 24-7 gig. You're always, you know, people want the newness all the time.
0:40.5	It's thirsty.
0:41.5	I'm excited to sort of take a break off for a day and come to GDC.
0:45.3	Yes, it is quite an experience.
0:46.9	So, SOS, it came out in early access in January.
0:51.0	For people who might not know what it is, can you give us a brief description of what the game actually is? Sure. Our idea with SOS is sort of twofold. Well, so okay, let's talk about
1:00.4	just sort of base mechanics. People understand what's going on. You could call it Battle Royale,
1:05.5	but it's not really about that. It is 16 people spawn on to an island. Three of them can get off. You have to get one of
1:14.2	the relics to get off. And it's a game really based around the idea of audience and the biggest
1:24.6	deal, I think, is sort of temporary alliances. It's not a game where everybody just sort of kills each other immediately
1:29.9	because resources are difficult to find and important
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