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The 2016 Game Developers Conference is coming up quick, and today organizers reveal two more great talks from expert speakers that are taking place at the conference in March.
Both talks tackle some familiar topics from intriguing angles: one addresses the unique demands of composing music for fast-paced multiplayer shooters, while the other aims to share learnings from one F2P game makers' charge onto consoles.
Game Developers Conference organizers are proud to debut the first pair of announced talks for the inaugural Virtual Reality Developers Conference, a sister conference that will take place alongside GDC 2016 in San Francisco next March.
Much like the eight focused Summits at GDC, the VRDC jumpstarts the week with two full days of lectures, panels, postmortems, and more to foster community-building and knowledge-sharing within the nascent VR/AR development industry.
Game Developers Conference organizers are working hard to program a great lineup of talks at GDC 2016 next March, and today they're excited to debut another pair of great talks from game industry experts that will take place during the show.
These sessions revolve around the technical challenges of game development, and span the Audio, Visual Arts and Production tracks of talks at GDC 2016. If you make art and music for games, you'll want to keep these talks on your radar.
As we prepare to close the book on 2015, Game Developers Conference 2016 officials are working with the best and brightest in the industry to organize a great show next year. Today we're excited to announce two more talks for the March conference that showcase the diverse variety of sessions available in even a single GDC track of talks.
Both of these talks are part of the popular Design track at GDC 2016, and one will rip into the design tenets and history of an unorthodox game genre to see what comes out while the other explores what two developers have learned in a decade of chasing their dream of building the perfect platformer.
Game Developers Conference organizers are proud to debut another pair of Summit sessions in which experienced indie game makers will share their hard-won knowledge at GDC 2016 next March.
The eight focused Summits at GDC fill the first two days of the conference with lectures, panels, postmortems, and more to foster community-building within specific sectors of the game industry. Both of the talks announced today will be part of the perennially popular Indie Games Summit at GDC 2016.
Organizers of the 2016 Game Developers Conference are happy to announce that for the fourth year in a row, 30 GDC Indie Games Summit tickets will be donated to the 2016 Indie Giving venture in partnership with the Indie Giving charity effort.
The goal of the agreement with Indie Giving, which is run by FGL chief and indie community veteran Chris Hughes, is to give generous indie game makers an opportunity to attend GDC at an affordable rate, and give back to people in need at the same time.
GDC officials have reserved 30 of the sold-out IGS Summit passes for purchase through the Indie Giving package program. To purchase these $295 packages, you must agree to give back to the local community by volunteering on an onsite project before GDC 2016.
Organizers of the Game Developers Conference have once again donated a number of complimentary GDC 2016 passes to a variety of organizations through the GDC Scholarship Program, and the deadline to apply for some these scholarships is coming up quick.
Game Developers Conference 2016 organizers would like to cheerfully remind the game development community that the call for submissions to ALT.CTRL.GDC --the on-site special exhibit focusing on unique control methods for playing games -- will end next Monday, December 7th.
Those interested in participating in ALT.CTRL.GDC should fill out this online form in its entirety before the December 7th deadline. Any questions about the form or the exhibit should be directed to ALT.CTRL.GDC's organizer, John Polson.
As always, teams for each chosen submission will be asked to showcase their games to GDC attendees at the ALT.CTRL.GDC exhibit area on the expo show floor. They'll also receive a pair of All-Access Passes and a pair of Expo Passes, for a total of four free passes to GDC 2016.
Game Developers Conference 2016 officials are working hard to organize a great show next year, and today they're happy to reveal two new talks for the March conference that explore what it takes to survive and thrive in the contemporary game industry.
Speakers Bob Bates and Paul Tozour are longstanding members of the game development community who have accumulated a wealth of practical experience, and each of them will share their learnings in talks that span multiple tracks of GDC 2016 talks.
As the 2016 Game Developers Conference approaches, organizers are excited to announce two new sessions for the big show that will challenge your expectations about the art and design of video games.
From new rules of game design to the practical realities of art direction in contemporary games, these two talks demonstrate the breadth of experiences available to GDC attendees.
In "Rules of the Game: Five More Techniques from Quite Inventive Designers," a panel of designers that includes Richard Rouse III (Paranoid Productions), Michael de Plater (Monolith Productions), Emily Short (Independent), Liz England (Insomniac Games), Lee Perry (Independent) and Jason VandenBerghe (Ubisoft) will take the stage to share their own unique, personal pieces of game design wisdom.
Expect to hear very specific, practical and unique game design rules from veterans of the industry, rules you can then take home and apply to your own work.
Game Developers Conference organizers are working hard to program a great lineup of talks at GDC 2016 next March, and today they're excited to debut another pair of great Summit sessions for the show.
The eight focused Summits at GDC fill the first two days of the event with lectures, panels, postmortems, and more to foster community-building within specific sectors of the game industry.
As part of the cutting-edge AI Summit Tom Clancy's The Division developers Philip Dunstan and Drew Rechner deliver an in-depth talk on "Creating the NPCs of Tom Clancy's The Division."
NPC designer Rechner and AI programmer Dunstan will show, from design through to implementation, how the NPC AI handles the combination of open-world gameplay and designer-scripted encounters that exist in The Division. Particular focus will be placed on the ways in which level designers can influence the NPC systemic behavior, both before and during combat, to create interesting combat encounters.
Don't miss designer and consultant Ian Hamilton's return to GDC 2016 to discuss "Mobile Devices and Disabled Gamers" as part of the conference's popular Smartphone & Tablet Game Summit.
Game Developers Conference organizers are working hard to program a great lineup of talks at GDC 2016 next March, and today they're excited to debut two more standout sessions from expert speakers.
It's basically race day today, as both of these fresh talks deal directly with the nuts and bolts of how some of the world's leading racing game developers do what they do best.
How do you capture the roar of an engine and make it feel authentic to someone sitting on a couch, with a gamepad in their hand? The audio lead and audio creative director of Turn 10 Studios, Chase Combs and Nick Wiswell, will walk you through the process in their GDC 2016 talk "Simulating the Race Day Experience: Mixing Forza Motorsport 6."
As the 2016 Game Developers Conference draws nigh, organizers reveal two more expert sessions aimed at advancing both our understanding and our appreciation for the art of game development.
Both of these talks dig into the nitty-gritty details of good graphical design, though one focuses more on practical tricks to using mixed resolution rendering to best effect while the other revolves around how developers can use severely limited color palettes to create entrancing, memorable games.
Game Developers Conference organizers are working hard to program a great lineup of talks at GDC 2016 next March, and today they're excited to debut another pair of great Summit sessions for the show.
The eight focused Summits at GDC fill the first two days of the event with lectures, panels, postmortems, and more to foster community-building within specific sectors of the game industry.
At the ever-popular AI Summit Daniel Brewer, lead AI programmer at Digital Extremes, will share practical advice on crafting great boss AI gleaned from his experience on popular free-to-play online shooter Warframe.
With Game Developers Conference 2016 on the horizon, organizers are pleased to announce a fresh pair of talks for the March conference that showcase the diverse variety of expert sessions available at this year's show.
Both of these tallks have a foothold in the Business, Marketing and Management track at GDC 2016, with one branching out into the Advocacy track to talk about how cognitive biases shape teams and studios while the other touches on the Production track by digging into common mistakes made during free-to-play game development.
