GDC 2025 Session Viewer
Design Strategies to Support Nurturers
Nina Kim (Senior Game Designer, Rare Ltd.)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass - Get your pass now!
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Vault Recording: TBD
Audience Level: Intermediate
Cozy and wholesome games are a growing genre that allow players to enjoy a warm-hearted style of gameplay. These games open opportunities for nurturing players to live out a fantasy of care taking and kind actions. As more games aspire to include these sorts of experiences, we find ourselves searching to expand on these nurturing systems within a wider variety of games. In the current games market, the nurturing population of players is often underserved or overlooked. In this talk, Nina highlights some strategies that can help deepen and create more mature forms of care taking and nurturing, while avoiding reliance on a base of a simplistic, saccharine world.
Takeaway
Attendees can expect to learn strategies that help deepen nurturing gameplay, and methods to support players who enjoy care taking as a skill.
Intended Audience
For designers working on games focused on nurturing mechanics and wholesome interactions
