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Why wait until the game is deep in production before you think of its first trailer? Thinking about what a trailer for your game will look like when you’re at the prototyping phase can be an effective lens through which you can assess the appeal and viability of a game idea and show it to […]

Yoko Shimomura honored at GDC concert with live performance of “Dearly Beloved” from Kingdom Hearts. GDC returns to San … source

Video games are now a significant part of life for those aged 50 years and older, with over 50-million players. This talk features Northeastern University and AARP discussing the AARP research on 50-plus players, their needs, and the market opportunity. GDC returns to San Francisco in March 2025! For more information, be sure to visit […]

Formed over 4 years of designing Fallout: Wasteland Warfare and all of its expansions, campaigns, AI and RPG (plus 20+ years of game design experience), this 2024 Tabletop Summit talk examines how Bethesda’s award-winning Fallout videogame series was converted to the tabletop game of Fallout: Wasteland Warfare. GDC returns to San Francisco in March 2025! […]

At GDC 2024, developers of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom discuss structuring an expanded Hyrule around physics-based gameplay and evolved sound design! Join the game’s Technical Director Takuhiro Dohta, Lead Physics Programmer Takahiro Takayama, and Lead Sound Engineer Junya Osada as they explore challenges their teams faced when approaching this sequel. GDC […]

Video game trailers are unique in the entertainment landscape in terms of production, content, and especially presentation. In this GDC 2024 session, Adrien Marie, Brand Manager at Dotemu, shares through multiple examples his insights on game trailers, their structures, formats, goals and how the way they are presented can and must change your way to […]

The GDC 2024 talk is a dive into the world-building aspect of The Dark Place of Alan Wake II. Nazareno Urbano explains how … source

In this 2024 Independent Games Summit talk, Jonathan Smårs shares insight into the Valheim development journey so far through a patch-by-patch breakdown and managing player expectations spanning multiple years of development during early access and lessons learned along the way, both internal and external challenges that have emerged, and oh – and they bought a […]

Melissa Phillips, Director of the Games Leadership Network, has spent the last year working with over 80 current and emerging Games Industry Leaders from over 50 studios worldwide to better understand the challenges facing our studios in the Games Leadership space. In this GDC 2024 talk, Melissa addresses topics like: What trends are we seeing […]

No plan survives development. Join the cinematic director of Larian Studios, Jason Latino, for an account of how the realities of … source