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Game Career Seminar: STR, DEX and INT: A Genre-Spanning Way to Think About Gameplay

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Join Joe Shely as he presents a simple framework for classifying games based on the way players interact with them. This framework uses the well-known RPG shorthand for character attributes Strength, Dexterity, and Intellect to describe gameplay more specifically than genre labels such as Action Adventure, Metroidvania, or ARPG. The talk also explains how to use the framework as a lens to evaluate your game and your audience, whether to add particular features, and to think about what kind of gameplay your players expect.

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  • Game Developers Conference 2025
  • Joseph Shely
  • Blizzard Entertainment
  • free content
  • Game Career Seminar
  • Game Career / Education