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Chris Crawford Dragon Speech "I Had a Dream"

Chris Crawford

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Game developmentHistory and cultureGame designHistory of computing

Chris Crawford delivers his famous Dragon Speech at the 1992 Game Developers Conference, advocating for game design as an expressive art form.

Peter Mishara applied his expertise to cleaning up the video and sound in the old video, and here is the new, improved version.

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1 person recommends this, 1 disputes it

What people say. Recommended as a legendary and dramatic historical talk on the artistic potential of game design.

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