GDC Founder Chris Crawford's Dragon Speech

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Chris Crawford, founder of the Game Developers Conference, gives his famous Dragon Speech at GDC. It is an impassioned address on the future of games and interactive storytelling.

HN people treat it as the most famous moment in GDC history and rewatch it to think about what games could have been.

“It is probably the most famous moment of any GDC.”
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@throwaway712712024 · in “Player-Driven Emergence in LLM-Driven Game Narrative”
Finally we can have interesting games with real meaningful choices that actually change the narrative of the game. Modern MMORPGs are barely better than the Choose Your Own Adventure books. Every time I watch Chris Crawford's Dragon Speech: ▶ this video I think about what could've been, and what games actually turn out to be. Honestly, if the next The War Within (next World of Warcraft expansion) makes me do 10 daily quests per day again, I will cancel my subscription for the first time since 2005.
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@RKoutnik2017 · in “Chris Crawford's Dragon Speech”
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@morelisp2021 · in “I Really Blew It (2020)”
It is probably the most famous moment of any GDC. ▶ this video
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