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With the 2016 Game Developers Conference on the horizon, event organizers are excited to debut another pair of intriguing sessions that should shed light on the art of developing games.

Both of these talks appear on the Programming track of talks at GDC 2016, with one focusing on the practical challenges of creating gorgeous environmental art for mobile games while the other digs into the fun challenges of porting modern games to MS-DOS (and the joys of programming in general.)

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 the first of what promises to be many standout Summit sessions.

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 popular Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit, Prettygreat cofounder Luke Muscat (known for designing games like Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride while at Halfbrick) will showcase how he and the Prettygreat team designed and fine-tuned the intuitive touch controls of the studio's debut game Land Sliders (pictured.)

As the year winds to a close, Game Developers Conference 2016 officials are excited to announce that a game industry veteran is coming to the show next March to deliver his postmortem of a classic game with a remarkable story.

Steve Golson, the experienced designer and engineer best known in the game industry for designing arcade game enhancement kits at General Computer of Cambridge, will be delivering a Classic Postmortem of his influential '80s arcade game Ms. Pac-Man at GDC 2016!

Game Developers Conference 2016 officials are working with the best and brightest in the industry to organize a great show next year, and today we're pleased to announce a pair of 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 appear on the Business, Marketing and Management track at GDC 2016, with one focusing on the business of supporting and nurturing your game when it becomes a successful eSport and the other focusing on how to manage your team while implementing an effective testing program for free-to-play games.

Good news, game dev parents: Game Developers Conference officials are excited to continue their partnership with leading childcare provider KiddieCorp to offer GDC 2016 attendees access to an on-site children's program.

Back by popular demand, the KiddieCorp team at GDC will engage your children with activities they want to attend, providing you with that critical peace of mind so you can attend your sessions and events worry-free.

The children's program is for children ages 6 months through 12 years old and will be located within the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. The KiddieCorp team charges an affordable hourly rate for their services and snacks and beverages will be provided, but meals do need to be supplied by parents each day.

Want to help the 2016 Game Developers Conference go off without a hitch, and get free entry to boot? Apply now to be a volunteer Conference Associate (CA), and you can earn the equivalent of an All-Access Pass by putting in roughly 25 hours of on-site work.

GDC 2016 runs from Monday, March 14th through Friday, March 18th, 2016. Applicants who are chosen to be Conference Associates have pre-conference assignments and a required orientation dinner on Sunday, March 15th. This is a paid position, so you must be eligible to work in the United States.

If you are accepted into the program, you are expected to be on-site during conference hours from the start of your pre-conference assignments through the end of the conference on the evening of Friday, March 18th.