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The GDC Next team continues to work with the best and brightest in the game industry to organize a great session lineup for GDC Next 2014 featuring ADC this November.
Today, they're excited to share two more excellent talks that will take place at this year's conference - The Workshop's industry veterans will share knowledge about the virtues of failing fast, while developer Adam Orth will tell the origin story of his dream game Adr1ft.
GDC Next and ADC, which aim to highlight practical ways for developers to increase the creative and financial success of their projects, are taking place simultaneously on November 3rd-4th, 2014 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

In order to get a better understanding of the European sector of game development right before GDC Europe, the Game Developers Conference has surveyed over 400 European games industry professionals who have attended GDC shows, read Gamasutra.com, or plan to attend GDC Europe 2014 in August.
The resulting GDC Europe State of the Industry report offers some interesting insight into which European country is perceived to be premier development hub, as well as how European developers are adapting to emerging trends like crowdfunding and regional tax incentives for game development.
Now, a deeper dive into the data reveals several fascinating trends about the hardware that European developers are making games for, as well as their fervor for emerging platforms like VR, Steam Boxes and Android microconsoles.

European developers, take note: after last week's announcement that senior talent from both Epic Games and Wooga will be delivering talks at GDC Europe 2014, we're excited to reveal two more notable sessions for the major European game conference, which is being held in Germany this August.
The event covers topics spanning AAA through mobile gaming and indie, both technical and business-focused. The pair of talks we're announcing today are focused on the evolving landscape of both narrative and VR game development, and they should include learnings for the entire community.

Game industry veteran Anna Kipnis serves as a senior gameplay programmer at Double Fine Productions, where she's worked on everything from Psychonauts to Brutal Legend to The Cave.
Like pretty much everyone at Double Fine, she tackles a wide variety of tasks at the studio -- including leading her own game development project as part of Double Fine's most recent Amnesia Fortnight internal game jam -- and has experience with the design and implementation of the dialog systems that give voice to some of Double Fine's most iconic characters.
In her work as a programmer she's been in charge of implementing dynamic dialog systems as gameplay mechanics, but she's also had the opportunity to work closely with writers, artists, animators, casting directors, and pretty much everyone involved with the process of bringing a line of dialog out of someone's imagination and getting it into a finished game.
This August she's bringing her experience to bear by delivering an hour-long talk at GDC Europe 2014, "Dialog Systems in Double Fine Games", a much-expanded version of a lesson she's already given to an audience of developers at NYU. Given Kipnis' work as a Molyjam organizer, a GDC speaker and a Double Fine programmer, we caught up with her on Skype to learn more about why she felt driven to pitch a GDC Europe talk about the art and import of designing robust dialog systems.

Game Developers Conference Europe 2014 organizers have revealed the lineup of games that will be featured in the first-ever European Innovative Games Showcase during the 2014 Independent Games Summit at the Cologne show this August, which itself includes a variety of talks from industry luminaries on the art and business of independent game development.
Games featured in the showcase were selected from a wide variety of applicants by Showcase MC - game designer Jonatan Van Hove - alongside a previously-announced panel of judges from across the video game industry.

Last week we announced that Fortnite and Fez were among the featured talks at GDC Europe 2014, and this week we're happy to reveal another pair of exciting sessions for the major European game conference, which is being held in Germany this August.
The conference covers game industry topics from AAA to indie, with equal focus on the art, business and technical challenges of game development. The pair of talks we're announcing today share a common focus on game design, and they should include learnings for the entire community.