Submissions Are Now Open for the 25th Independent Games Festival Awards
The Independent Games Festival is celebrating 25 years of incredible indie games at GDC 2023—and yours could be included!
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The Independent Games Festival is celebrating 25 years of incredible indie games at GDC 2023—and yours could be included!
'Building Excellent Teams and Culture in Game QA' from Anthony Price will help developers, studios, and organizations have a standout QA team.
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The call for submissions is happening now through Friday, October 7 at 11:59pm PT. This includes everything for the GDC Summits, which run on the Monday and Tuesday of the event, as well as Friday's Game Career Seminar.
GDC 2023 is also getting ready to accept submissions to present lectures and panels for the Summits portion of the event, which runs on Monday and Tuesday of the conference.
Chris Totten has developed a great training tool for level designers of all skill types—as well as game designers, instructors, and students looking to grow their portfolio.
GDC 2023 is getting ready to accept submissions to present lectures and panels for the Summits portion of the event, which runs on Monday and Tuesday of the conference.
The Board Game Design Summit returns for GDC 2023 as the Tabletop Summit, which will encompass everything related to board games, tabletop roleplaying games (RPGs), miniatures games, card games, dice games, and more.
Clinton Keith returns to GDC Masterclass with three Certified Agile Leadership for Game Development courses for leaders at all levels of a studio or game company. Each of these courses provides Certified Agile Leadership certification from the Scrum Alliance.
Learn the latest tools and concepts to become a leader in your field (from the comfort of your home or office), discover networking opportunities with fellow attendees, and gain access to unique course materials to continue your education and training.