In just under a month, more than 22,000 people directly associated with the video games and electronic entertainment industry will descend upon San Francisco's Moscone Center for the 2013 Game Developers Conference (GDC).
A professionals-only event in its 27th year, GCD is a forum for learning, inspiration, and networking those who create game software for computer, console, handheld, smartphone, tablet, mobile, and online games. In short, it's a big deal.
The NASSCOM Game Developer Conference (NGDC) is in it’s 5th year, having grown to over a 1000 attendees and the iLLGaming team is here to cover all the action in Pune. The significance of the event is that it puts the spotlight firmly on the Indian Game Development scene, which is growing by the day as evidenced by the rise in participation. Beginning this year, the NASSCOM Game Forum (NGF) awards are to become another feature of the NGDC with categories for Game of the Year (GOTY), Student GOTY and Indie GOTY. Following are a few highlights from the day. Expect more in-depth coverage next week.
In advance of GDC Next, which runs in Los Angeles on November 5-7, GDC director of online community Patrick Miller asked Storyteller creator Daniel Benmergui about how he grew his narrative-puzzle game Storyteller from a two-day experiment into an IGF 2012 Nuovo Award winner.
Organized by UBM Tech Game Network, GDC China, now in its sixth year, will move up to September this year, running the 15th to the 17th at the Shanghai International Convention Centre in Shanghai, China.
Only 5% of folks in attendance developing for the Wii U? Does that reflect more on the Wii U or on GDC?