Chatbot Game Manifesto: Golden Rules for Making a New Kind of Game

In this 2018 GDC session, Emmanuel Corno defines the golden rules of chatbot games using his own experience with IGF-nominated Event[0].

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[JosephCatrambone]

I had the pleasure of meeting with Emmanuel just after this talk. I was actually working on a chatbot game when he released Event[0]. It was such a good game and was particularly impressive, given they came about before Transformer architectures.

[carsonskjerdal]

I was really shocked the views were so low, just realized this came out today. ha ha good talk

[ryanb]

I had never heard of this genre before, this is super interesting

[NegraLi]

Yeah, from 24:00 onwards he inadvertently explains why chatbot games are very rare. A text based type of game that is almost impossible to localize and needs major design workarounds to port it to consoles...that's harsh

[sidbell]

"Do you have any questions?"
"Why?" :-)

[zelbekon]

Rule #1: don't, you will fail anyway

[Pikopati]

Golden Rule of Presenting: If your thinking what to say next, don't fill the silence with Silence is as much as important as word themself to deliver a message.