Beginning next week, the Mod DB team plans on adsorbing a ton of information from indies right through to the veterans presenting at this years GDC. Our schedule is jam packed, but if you are there or if you just live nearby and you want to catch up for a chat, shoot us a message.
Monday
- 2D Boy: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Going Indie But Were Afraid to Ask
- 2008 IGF Finalist Overview
- Independent Games & Sales: Stats 101
- Indie Games: From Buzz To Business
- 2008 AI Postmortems: SPORE, GEARS OF WAR 2, and BIOSHOCK
- CRAYON PHYSICS DELUXE Postmortem
- Embracing Constraints
- Stardock On The PC Hardcore Scene As Indie
- Am I dead yet?
Tuesday
- The Indie Advantage? A View From Both Sides
- The Art of Independent Game Promotion
- The Indie Businessman
- The Indie Game Maker Rant
- How Do You Manage Small Indie Teams?
- Indies: Beyond Single-Player
- Hothead Games: Episodic Content and The Evolving Indie Landscape
- Making Web Games: The Indie Experience
- How to Finish a Game Project You... Hate?
Wednesday
- Discovering New Development Opportunities
- From Bungie to Bootstrapping — Starting an Independent Developer Studio
- The Art of BRAID
Thursday
- My Lessons Learned from Flagship Studios
- From COUNTER-STRIKE to LEFT 4 DEAD: Creating Replayable Cooperative Experiences
- Unlikely Beginnings: FALLOUT 3's Lead Designer on his Path into the Game Industry
- Economic Downturn, Gaming Upturn?
I was even planning on going to this, shame my schedule is much too busy.
I could really use a vacation.
I'm so ****** I get to miss GDC this year, I'm still working on my RPG Engine to present at the GDC one year.
I love the indie scene and I want to get into it so bad! Unfortunately I missed the boat this year, but hopefully next year I will plan ahead.
I just hope someone at GDC asks at the Halo Wars panel, "At what point did you figure it would be a good idea to ever release an RTS on the console? Especially one without hot keys."
I won't be there this year, maybe next time.
If you volunteer as a CA the whole thing is Free.
CA? whats that?
Calcium 8)
I'll be there as part of my GDC Student Scholarship. I'm super excited :)
Wolfire will be there
I wish I could go... I could really use a vacation...