NEWS
The Upshot: The Best GDC Talk Was About Empathy In order to create empathy in players, writers need to get personal Developers Want to Put More Kindness Into Video Games Heidi McDonald Has Been Promoted to Senior Creative Director of iThrive Games Schell Games’ Heidi McDonald Honored at GDC Teachers finding games give a leg up on learning BOARD GAMES AND SCRATCH W/ HEIDI MCDONALD @ SATURDAY CRAFTERNOONS Future Developers Explore Prosocial Gaming at Empathy Game Jam VR and Empathy: Tread Carefully The Future of Romance in Games #GDC16 Greatly Approved of the Romance & Sexuality Roundtable We’re only beginning to make games more accessible Once More, With Feeling: The Ongoing Quest for Emotional Games Where the wild gamers live
INTERVIEWS
Game Changer: Q&A with Swissvale Video Game Designer Heidi McDonald
PODCASTS
Humans of Gaming Podcast Episode 134 Creative Writing Career Podcast Episode 11 Interview with Heidi McDonald – Creative Director for iThrive Games – Pittsburgh, PA