GDC Vault: great games development resources online!

Game Developers Conference 2010 organizers have revealed plans for the GDC Vault, including free videos featuring Zynga, Ernest Adams and more, and regular free updates planned throughout the year.   The newly launched GDC Vault website is designed to hold free speaker slides from all GDC events, as well as specially synchronized video recordings of Game Developers Conference lectures and historical audio recordings.   The GDC Vault video technology... Read More

GDC 2010: Virtual Economy Talk by Sulka Haro, the acting Lead Concept Designer of Habbo

by {www.sulka.net} “Right, it’s been around a week since GDC 2010 and I’m running out of excuses to not post about anything about it, so here’s the easiest bit – slides from my virtual economy talk. Get them here.” Join for free here {Habbo}  Read More

Please Finish Your Game!

“My rant at the 2010 Game Developers Conference was entitled Please Finish Your Game! At the start, we present Heather Chaplin with the Duct Tape Award for her awesome 2009 rant. She couldn’t make it to the GDC this year, so she sent me a video of her acceptance speech.  My rant is about how I’m worried about the fixation on development time these days, both in the indie community, and in corporate games. On the corporate side,... Read More

Slide from GDC: Convergence of Flash Portals and Social Gaming

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GDC: From student game to success!

Believe it or not, many of the best games start out as student development projects. The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, flOw and even Portal all began life as student projects. Speaking at a GDC panel, the developers of the games listed above gave their advice on how budding student game designers can see their own projects become a success. The panel included Kim Swift, designer of Portal and currently of Airtight Games, Matt Korba and Paul... Read More