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GDC Pitch is a special event designed to help select participants practice their game-pitching skills. Ten studios (over the course of two days) will solicit their games in front of a live audience—followed by questions, advice, and feedback. Then, the judges will declare the day's "Best Pitch" and award two free GDC 2024 All-Access passes.
We're thrilled to welcome our Diamond Partners for GDC 2023: Amazon Web Services, Epic Games - Unreal Engine, Gala Games, Google, Meta, Microsoft, PICO, Polygon Labs, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Unity Technologies, Wemade, Xsolla, and Yahaha Studios.
In our Educators Summits track, discover the most innovative and exciting ideas in game education. For Students, explore new ways to learn and grow, while getting ready to jumpstart your career in your chosen field.
In our Independent Games track, hear from the best and brightest indie game creators. Attend lectures, postmortems, microtalks, and panels representing diverse voices, experiences, and perspectives, including many former and current Independent Games Festival finalists and winners.
Mabel Addis will posthumously receive the Pioneer Award, which honors breakthrough business, tech, and game design milestones. The award-winning game designer, level designer, and programmer John Romero will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on iconic and genre-defining first-person shooters.
In our Game Narrative track, learn about interactive narrative in all forms, including AAA blockbusters, indie games, mobile, and social projects from fundamentals of story development theory to practical case studies.
GDC 2023 will offer five in-person Speed Networking sessions at this year's event. In addition to our General session, we will hold four specialty sessions that are more tailored for our attendees' networking needs.
It's time to start picking and choosing which exciting sessions, talks, and events you can check out on which dates—making it easy to plan your week in an intuitive, easy-to-navigate fashion.
In our Production and Team Leadership track, learn tactics for managing game production, no matter the size or scope of your game. From AAA console games to emerging platforms with new challenges, producers need to keep teams and projects on track and increase efficiency along the way to ship games on time.
The Game Developers Conference is pleased to announce that Leslee Sullivant will be serving as host for GDCA 2023, taking place at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco (with a live broadcast on Twitch).
For 2023, the Experimental Game Workshop has expanded its focus beyond interactivity and mechanics alone—what it means to be an "experimental game" also includes gameplay, subject, storytelling, and representation of cultural perspectives and values.
In our Audio track, join the game industry's top audio professionals to share knowledge and experience from the real world addressing, audio's unique aesthetic, technical, business, and logistical problems.
In our Visual Arts track, be inspired by leading artists' work from stellar concept art to post-production and learn about the process behind the work. Learn methods to create quality art and animations for all kinds of games under tight deadlines; from stellar concept art techniques to post-production best practices and everything in between.
In our Advocacy track, address topics ranging from diversity to censorship to quality of life within the realm of social advocacy in the game industry—topics include diversity, equity, and inclusion, sustainability, accessibility, and achieving a healthy workplace.
Participating students choose a game title and conduct a detailed and structured analysis of its narrative elements, and a select number are given passes to GDC 2023 and invited to present poster sessions of their work at the Game Narrative Summit.
