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GDC Next Day 2 session highlights

Missing out on <a href="http://www.gdcnext.com">GDC Next</a> this week? Read Gamasutra's recap of session highlights from the second day of the show.

November 7, 2013

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Missing out on GDC Next in Los Angeles this week? Read Gamasutra's recap of session highlights from the second day of the show.

"I know what everyone's thinking: what part of your soul are we interested in the most?"

Square Enix community lead Phil Elliott jokes about their newly-announced Collective publishing program, which he described as "not a normal publishing project."

"The basic concept is for the player to have empathy for the characters...That's how easy we want it to be. We don't want to tire the player out."

Hidetaka "SWERY" Suehiro discussed the design philosophy behind D4's new Kinect controls.

"There is a simple trick to finding examples of awesome women: you type anything into Google and then add 'women' after it."

Jill Murray offered concrete suggestions for diversifying women character archetypes in video games.

"Before we had single-player video games we didn't know that they were a thing that could exist... This is a fundamentally different thing that has largely created our industry."

Ouya's Tadhg Kelly speaking on video games' upcoming "multiplayer singularity".You can keep tabs on Gamasutra's continuing GDC Next coverage here, and watch GameSpot's videos of selected sessions here.

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