Dyspraxia in Game Design

Dyspraxia in Game Design

Published on 2019.
Filed under speaking .

A talk I gave in 2019 for Feral Vector and Game Devs of Color Expo (and then in 2023 for GA Conf) about how my relatively late diagnosis and personal experiences with Developmental Coordination Disorder (aka Dyspraxia) have influenced my games and approach to game design. In my early career, I made several small games that explored the idea of evoking how it feels to be Dyspraxic. I wanted to give a talk which offered an alternative approach to expressing personal experiences through games; there had been talks that address this from the angle of storytelling and narrative design, but not as many out there that talked about designing game systems and mechanics that are expressive in the same way.