Nearly 30,000 attendees are expected at the Game Developers Conference as it is held without COVID restrictions this year
After four years, the Game Developers Conference is closer to normal. Officials said they expect nearly 30,000 attendees in downtown San Francisco and exhibitors are on track to return. The gathering arrives at a time when publishers have announced layoffs and the tech industry is facing several changes.
The move also highlights the importance game preservation. Hawkins said even titles from 2010 have been lost over time. GDC itself has preserved hours of talks and documents from its decades of conferences. She said the vault of information is some of their most popular assets with burgeoning developers.
When it comes to big GDC talks, “Prince of Persia” creator Jordan Mechner will detail the creation of his classic game “Karateka” in a post-mortem discussion. The conference will also address artificial intelligence, and it’s implications to games, including sessions about ethics and business challenges.
That remote work and collaboration is something that the industry went through during the pandemic, and it has influenced several projects and studios, including the recently announced developersThat’s another reason why the conference is focused on examining the past, said Ashley Corrigan, senior conference producer. There are tidbits of knowledge or ideas ahead of their time that didn’t catch on but suddenly do. For example, she pointed to the QR code.
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