A Long Dark Road: Blending Player and Authored Story in a Sandbox Survival Game

In this 2018 GDC session, Hinterland Games’ Raphael van Lierop shares hard-won lessons about the community-informed development of The Long Dark, the principles that define a successful sandbox gameplay experience, and the challenges of wrapping a story mode around the core of a popular survival sandbox game. Register for GDC: Join the GDC mailing list: Follow GDC on Twitter: GDC talks cover a range of developmental