The Game Developers Conference is a yearly event in San Francisco where game developers and industry professionals from all over the world meet to talk about games and attend lectures given by the best and the brightest stars in the industry. This year, the conference is scheduled for March 9-13 and the first wave of sessions just got announced. Below are some of the speakers you can check out if you are lucky enough to attend.
A Method to Our Madness: An In-Depth Look at Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Cinematic Production ProcessSpeakers: Josh Scherr & Amy Hennig (Naughty Dog)
Modeling Individual Personalities in The Sims 3Speaker: Richard Evans (Maxis)
Rock Show VFX - The Effects That Bring Brutal Legend to LifeSpeakers: Peter Demoreuille & Drew Skillman (Double Fine Productions)Why Owning Your Own IP is a Bad Idea: Giving Up Your Rights for Fun and ProfitSpeaker: Chris Charla (Foundation 9 Entertainment)Little Hands, Foul Moods, Runny Noses 3: Research for Developing Kid-Friendly Social Gaming ExperiencesSpeaker: Carla Engelbrecht Fisher (Columbia University)Scoring Hell: How We Created the Score for EA's Dante's Inferno from Inception to Final ImplementationSpeakers: Garry Schyman (GSP), Paul Gorman (Electronic Arts)
Research for kid-friendly gaming, and right below it is scoring hell..
@Jonathan
Haha! I saw that too and I was a tad confused.
sounds..........interesting
I'm interested in the Uncharted 2 one and Scoring hell. Hope there is much more than this though..
Id like to hear the uncharted guy
It would be tight to visit this...as long as you avoid Castro haha
So thats all the speaker there is I though if it would be important to have more guests...
what will be new about those games??
sounds boring
they said first sessions
not the whole thing
It's too bad it's not more affordable to go to the GDC. The student pass is $75, but that's for one day, and doesn't include most of the stuff available. It would be a nice option for students wanting to get a more in-depth feel of the inner workings of the video game industry.
intersted in the musical score but I'd rather see GOW 3's musical score
So, can anyone attend?
If you can afford to attend then I believe that you can go for all of the days and even look around and talk to the speakers. It is hard to talk to the speakers from what I've heard, My friend from Blizzard went to the last two and loved them. He said it will cost some dough though.
The ones that look the most interesting are the Uncharted 2 one and Dante's Inferno one. Looks like a good conference.
Wow. Quite an array of speakers and topics to choose from.
Chris Carla sounds like a real sell out to me, her lecture should be called "The joys of being a puppet!"