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Game Developers Conference officials are excited to announce that the creative impresarios behind iam8bit will make a triumphant return to GDC 2015 this year, with a whimsical interactive exhibit that will be available for all GDC passholders (from Expo to All-Access) to play at various points during the week of the conference.

In previous years iam8bit has hosted photo booths and game shows on the GDC show floor, but this time around they're celebrating five years of GDC collaboration by asking conference attendees to step up and test their nerd cred by playing one of four unique games at the Wheel of Whimsy.

Every hour, one lucky attendee will have an opportunity to spin and select what video game-themed extravaganza they'll play to distract them from their important meetings - Cheat Code, Pixlatr, Bingo or Karaoke.

The Independent Games Festival is pleased to announce the winners for the ninth annual Student Showcase, which celebrates the brightest and most innovative creations to come out of universities and games programs from around the world in the past year, in advance of the 17th annual presentation of its prestigious awards.

This year's showcase of top student talent include the fast-paced "five minutes or less" real-time strategy game Interloper from Dutch student development team Monogon Games, the stark, fast-paced falling action game Downwell from a student developer at Tokyo's University of the Arts, and strikingly topical arcade-style experience Rooftop Cop, a game from NYU Tisch School of the Arts student Stephen Lawrence Clark, which challenges people to play through a collection of five vignettes about a police force that has forgotten who they are meant to police -- and why.

Developers, this is it -- early registration for Game Developers Conference 2015 ends today, January 21 at 11:59 PM Pacific, and conference organizers are encouraging anyone interested in attending to register now at the discounted rate.

When you register you'll be securing your access to a wide variety of game development talks, roundtable discussions, postmortems and workshops from the best and brightest our industry has to offer.

GDC 2015 organizers have already revealed numerous notable sessions as part of the show's Main Conference, which features tracks on Business Marketing & Management, Game Design, Production, Programming and Visual Arts, Audio and Advocacy. More will be announced in the weeks to come, and we thought we'd take a moment to highlight some of the Design talks you mustn't miss when the conference kicks off at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center in March.

With just over a day left until early registration for Game Developers Conference 2015 ends January 21 at 11:59 PM Pacific, conference organizers are encouraging anyone interested in attending to register now at a discounted rate.

When you register you'll be securing access to a wide variety of game development talks, roundtable discussions, postmortems and workshops. All passholders also have access to the GDC Expo Floor, located within the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, which serves as a showcase for cutting-edge technology from some of the industry's biggest and most influential companies.

Designing great games is tricky business, and as a developer there's no better way (other than hands-on experience) to sharpen your design skills than swapping stories and techniques with your peers. 

With that in mind, Game Developers Conference 2015 officials are excited to highlight another great set of sessions incorporated into the perennially popular Design track of talks that you'll want to keep on your radar.

While you're at GDC, join Fantasia: Music Evolved (pictured) lead designer Jonathan Mintz for a look at how the game turns players into creators. During his talk, "Insipring Player Creativity in Fantasia: Music Evolved," You'll see methods for getting players into a creative mindset, how the interactions in the game are set up to give players confidence, and how the game celebrates players' creations to keep them engaged.

Big venture capital windfalls and crowdfunding successes make the headlines, but the majority of game developers are still self-reliant when it comes to funding development, according to a recent Game Developers Conference developer survey.

Survey officials polled more than 2,000 North American game developers who attended GDC 2014 to compose the third annual State of the Industry Survey, which seeks to provide a snapshot of the games industry and illustrate industry trends ahead of GDC 2015 in March.

Survey results suggest that, among other trends, console development is on the rise (though PC and mobile still remain the most popular platforms by a wide margin) while digital and microtransaction sales are dominating profits.