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Sharpen your game dev toolset with tips from Ubisoft at GDC 2015
Ubisoft's David Lightbown believes the tools we use to make games could stand to be honed, and he's coming to GDC 2015 in March to show us how it's done.
Nov. 19, 2014
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See how top F2P spenders are shaping our industry at GDC 2015
Kongregate cofounder and CEO Emily Greer returns to the Game Developers Conference in March to share insight into the personalities, play patterns and spending habits of top F2P game spenders.
Nov. 14, 2014
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See how Storm8 cooks up a successful mobile sim game at GDC 2015
Storm8 game design chief Dan Scheidegger is coming to GDC 2015 to run down exactly what worked -- and what didn't -- during development of Restaurant Story 2.
Nov. 12, 2014
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How did Ubisoft take Assassin's Creed co-op? Find out at GDC 2015
Assassin's Creed Unity launches this week, and one of its most unique features is a four-player cooperative multiplayer mode. Find out how it was made from a Ubisoft programmer at GDC 2015.
Nov. 11, 2014
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GDC's Experimental Gameplay Workshop needs your crazy prototypes
The perennially popular Experimental Gameplay Workshop returns to GDC in 2015, and the event's organizers have issued a call for submissions of new "experimental" video games and prototypes.
Nov. 7, 2014
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Learn how thatgamecompany recruits top talent at GDC 2015
Thatgamecompany's Sunni Pavlovic has a truckload of experience finding and retaining top game dev talent, and she's coming to GDC 2015 to explain how she does it -- and how you can do it too.
Nov. 7, 2014
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How do young people think about games? Find out at GDC 2015
Well-known educator and author Rosalind Wiseman is teaming up with game industry personality Ashly Burch to tackle a challenging topic at GDC 2015: How do young people feel about modern video games?
Nov. 5, 2014
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See how third-party developers can make your game better at GDC
No matter how good your game is, CCP Games technical designer Blok-Andersen is betting it could probably be improved if you opened it up to third-party developers. At GDC 2015, he'll show you how.
Nov. 4, 2014
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No More Excuses: Why quality game audio is easier than ever
Veteran sound designer Damian Kastbauer believes audio production these days is a breeze -- and that means you have no excuses not to make your game sound great.
Nov. 4, 2014
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How Playful is mapping the frontier of VR game development
The field of VR game development is growing fast, and Lucky's Tale developer Playful Corp seems to be one of its foremost pioneers. They revealed some of what they've learned today at GDC Next.
Nov. 4, 2014
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Charting Adrift's journey from concept art to publishing deal
Adam Orth and the rest of the core Adrift development team share what they learned while taking their game from concept art to a polished prototype that netted them a publishing deal.
Nov. 4, 2014
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ALT.CTRL.GDC needs your one-of-a-kind alternative controller games!
The much-lauded ALT.CTRL.GDC is returning for GDC 2015, and seeking submissions until Dec. 23rd for one-of-a-kind game peripherals, contraptions and novelties which enhance game experiences.
Nov. 3, 2014