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The Game Developers Conference and Unity Technologies have partnered to curate and host a 3D art contest for games using Unity, with the winners to be displayed at a co-organized showcase during GDC 2018!

The contest is free to enter, and you can do so via the Unity 3D Game Art Challenge website. The deadline to enter is December 31st, and the 12 winners will be notified in late January.

Organizers of the Unity 3D Game Art Challenge are looking for the most beautiful and skillfully created 3D game environments produced in the Unity engine.

Judges will be rating the submitted games - which can be created for any game platform - based on the modeling, animation, and special effects of the 3D environments displayed in the videos, screenshots, and playable demos submitted.

Laralyn McWilliams is Chief Creative Officer at Skydance Interactive and will be at GDC 2018 to present the talk You’re Not Broken: Finding Your Creative Way Through Difficult Times.

Her Vision Track talk will discuss ways to recognize when your creativity is affected by stress, loss or other derailing emotions; methods for connection and communication with other creatives; emotional and practical tools to begin to reclaim your creativity. Here, McWilliams gives us information about herself and what she does.

Don't miss out! The Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next March is going to be full of interesting and informative sessions like Laralyn's. For more visit the show’s official website.

When you attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next March, you'll have access to a smorgsbord of fascinating, cutting-edge talks -- including one about how some devs are working with the Food & Drug Administration to get their work approved for medicinal use.

In his GDC 2018 Business & Marketing track talk on "Games as Medicine: FDA Approval Methods", game industry veteran Noah Falstein will speak to the specific challenges of FDA approval as well as more general issues for studios, individuals, and patients in creating the latest generation of games for health.

You want to be there, because you'll learn specifics of three companies that have applied to get their games reviewed in FDA trials, hear the business, technical, creative, and scientific challenges involved in creating and testing this sort of game, and other opportunities for games as medicine that are opening in the near future.

Remi Quenin is a game engine architect at Ubisoft Montreal and will be at GDC 2018 to present The Asset Build System of FarCry 5.

His Programming Track talk will discuss the architecture of Ubisoft Montreal’s data pipeline, from edition to optimized runtime asset, with a main focus on the part performing the transformation: the asset build system. Here, Quenin gives us information about himself and what he does.

Don't miss out! The Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next March is going to be full of interesting and informative sessions like Remi's. For more visit the show’s official website.

As the year winds down around us, the 2018 Independent Games Festival is entering its jurying phase -- the period in which discipline-specific experts play, evaluate and discuss the highlights of the nearly 600 games entered in the 2018 Festival Competition, which together continue to push the boundaries of video game development and design.

Of course, an excellent group of game development notables are evaluating IGF 2018's most promising entries. After first-round IGF judging from hundreds of evaluators, these expert juries will ultimately determine the finalists and winners of the various IGF 2018 awards at the 2018 Game Developers Conference.

In recognition of their service, today we'd like to celebrate those who have volunteered their time and talent to take part in judging the Excellence in Design Award, the Excellence in Audio Award, and the Excellence in Narrative Award.

Organizers of the 2018 Game Developers Conference are excited to host a diverse array of experienced game designers sharing their tips and tricks in the Design track talk "Rules of the Game: Five Further Techniques from Rather Clever Designers."

This session promises to be great, because it features five accomplished game makers (moderated by fellow accomplished game maker Richard Rouse III) who will each spend ten minutes detailing a specific design technique or rule they use to craft compelling experiences.

Erin Hoffman-John (CEO/Designer, Sense of Wonder), Soren Johnson (CEO/Design Director, Mohawk Games), Raph Koster (Designer, Independent), Josh Sawyer (Director, Obsidian Entertainment), and Stone Librande (Lead Designer, Riot Games) will each dive into their technique and provide detailed examples about how they have used the rule in past projects, honestly sharing the pluses and minuses -- including where their rule works well and where it may be less applicable.

As Quantic Dream prepares to release its neo-noir thriller Quantic Dream next year, some of the game's dev team are laying plans to speak at the 2018 Game Developers Conference about how the game's remarkable tech works.

Both Quantic Dream lead engine programmer Ronan Marchalot and graphics programmer Guillaume Caurant will be giving GDC 2018 Programming track talks, the former on the game's rendering tech and the latter on its lighting engine.

In "Cluster Forward Rendering and Anti-Aliasing at Quantic Dream" Marchalot will give an overview of Quantic's rendering technology, how the engine is integrated in Maya and how artists produce materials.

He'll cover the switch from deferred lighting to cluster forward lighting, what the benefits are and how his team addressed the issues they met. He'll also take a look into how they implemented temporal anti-aliasing, and how they used it to improve some features such as SSR, SSAO, PCF shadows, skin subsurface scattering and volumetric lighting.