Game Developers Conference 2024
2024 Gaming Trends: Studio Roundtable (Presented by Unity)
by Anahit Fernandez (Navegante)
Business & Marketing  

Game Developers Conference 2024
25 Games Signed Without a Pitch Deck
by Snow Rui (Hooded Horse)
Business & Marketing  

Game Developers Conference 2024
All Game Trailers are Not Created Equal
by Adrien Marie (Dotemu)
Business & Marketing  

Game Developers Conference 2024
All Good Things: Sunsetting Your Game the Right Way
by Josh Harrison (Velan Studios)
Business & Marketing  

Showcase 2023
GameDeveloper.com Live Podcast Interview: Chris Zukowski
by Danielle Riendeau (Game Developer)
Business & Marketing  

Showcase 2023
GameDeveloper.com Live Podcast Interview: Rod Humble & King Choi
by Danielle Riendeau (Game Developer)
Business & Marketing  

Game Developers Conference 2023
'Wordle': One Year Later
by Zoe Bell (New York Times)
Business & Marketing  

Game Developers Conference 2023
'Wordscapes': How Design and Analytics Keep a Blockbuster Game Growing
by Theodore McCormick (PeopleFun)
Business & Marketing  

Game Developers Conference 2023
10 Live-Service Lessons: Launch Day Is Only the Beginning
by Jordan Power (Phoenix Labs)
Business & Marketing  

Game Developers Conference 2023
200-Million Players Can't Be Wrong: Lessons Learned From 10 Years of 'Be...
by Matt Small (Vector Unit)
Business & Marketing  

GD Talks
Constructing IMMORTALITY: A Fireside Chat with Sam Barlow
by Sam Barlow (Half Mermaid)
Business & Marketing  

GD Talks
GDTalks State of the Game Industry 2023
by Dana Ware (The VOID)
Business & Marketing  

GD Talks
GDTalks: GDC 101
by Brandon Sheffield (Necrosoft Games)
Business & Marketing  

GD Talks
The Publisher's Guide to Not Needing a Publisher
by Mike Rose (No More Robots)
Business & Marketing  

Game Developers Conference 2022
A 'Chicory' Marketing and PR Postmortem
by Rebekah Saltsman (Finji)
Business & Marketing  

Game Developers Conference 2022
All about Analytics: Understanding the Data You Need to Inform Decision-...
by Aimee Meehan (ironSource)
Business & Marketing  

Game Developers Conference 2022
All Roads Lead to Rome: Churn Analysis Applying Methods from Different D...
by Zixiao Kang (Netease)
Business & Marketing  

Game Developers Conference 2022
App Monetization Priorities for 2022 and Beyond (Presented by Meta)
by Scott Willoughby (Brainium)
Business & Marketing  

Game Developers Conference 2021
2021 Player Engagement Trends in Mobile (Presented by Vungle)
by Kalle Heikkinen (GameRefinery by Vungle)
Business & Marketing  

Game Developers Conference 2021
30 Minute Steam Page Makeovers
by Chris Zukowski (Return To Adventure Mountain LLC)
Business & Marketing  

Game Developers Conference 2021
Are You Venture Investible: Non-Obvious Roadblocks and Red Flags When Pi...
by Jason Della Rocca (Execution Labs)
Business & Marketing  

Game Developers Conference 2021
Breaking Down International Borders: Confidently Managing Global Gaming ...
by Chris Smith (BIG Esports)
Business & Marketing  

Showcase 2021
Billions of Gamers. Thousands of Needs. Millions of Opportunities. (Pres...
by Roger Chandler (Intel Corporation)
Business and Marketing  

Showcase 2021
Fandom-Ready: Creating Fiction in the Age of Fan Consumption
by Julian Quijano (Beautiful Glitch)
Business and Marketing  

Showcase 2021
From the Burden of Waterfalls to the Benefits of Bidding (Presented by F...
by Mary Kim (Game Hive)
Business and Marketing  

Showcase 2021
GDC Podcast Live! Hosted by Gamasutra feat. Game Marketing Pro Chris Zuk...
by Chris Zukowski (Return To Adventure Mountain LLC)
Business and Marketing  

Summer 2020
Ask Me Anything: Funding & Investment Q&A with David Gardner
by David Gardner (LVP)
Business & Marketing  

Summer 2020
California's New Privacy Law: Five Steps for Updating Your Privacy Pract...
by Will Bucher (Debevoise & Plimpton)
Business & Marketing  

Summer 2020
David & Goliath: How a Newbie Solo Developer Landed on Xbox Game Pass
by Davionne Gooden (Studio Zevere)
Business & Marketing  

Summer 2020
Game Devs WFH Microtalk: State of the Industry: Work from Home Edition A...
by Dom Tait (Omdia)
Business & Marketing  

GDC 2020
'Dead by Daylight': When Creative and Business Minds Are Cooking with GAAS
by Isabelle Mocquard (Behaviour Interactive)
Business & Marketing  

GDC 2020
'Forza' Monthly: Live Streaming a Franchise
by Shay Goldenberg (Turn 10 Studios / Microsoft)
Business & Marketing  

GDC 2020
Aesthetic Driven Development: Choosing Your Art Before Making a Game
by Vladimir Slav (Coldwild Games)
Business & Marketing  

GDC 2020
Making Your Game Influencer Ready: A Marketing Wishlist for Developers
by David Ortiz Lapaz (ICO Partners)
Business & Marketing  

2019
"Monetization Strategies that Drive Revenue" & "A Publisher's Journey to...
by Anala Prabhu (Facebook)
Business & Marketing  

2019
'Reigns: Game of Thrones': A Song of Fire and License
by Nigel Lowrie (Devolver Digital)
Business & Marketing  

2019
'Tetris' World Championship: Building Explosive Esports on 8-bit Nintendo
by Chris Tang (Hitsparks Games)
Business & Marketing  

2019
1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality
by Alex Schwartz ([unnamed next venture])
Business & Marketing  

GDC 2018
$0 to $1 Million: The Raw Numbers Behind Indie Success
by Tanya X. Short (Kitfox Games)
Business & Marketing  

GDC 2018
'Fortnite': An Unconventional Launch
by Ed Zobrist (Epic Games)
Business & Marketing  

GDC 2018
'Good Pizza, Great Pizza': Game Design, Iteration, and Business Lessons ...
by Anthony Lai (TapBlaze)
Business & Marketing  

GDC 2018
10 Lessons Learned Working on Rewarded Videos
by Nebojsa Duric (Nordeus)
Business & Marketing  

GDC 2017
'ARK: Survival Evolved': Lessons from the Trenches of Early Access
by Jeremy Stieglitz (Studio Wildcard)
Business & Marketing  

GDC 2017
'Job Simulator' Postmortem: VR Design, Tech, and Business Lessons Learned
by Devin Reimer (Owlchemy Labs)
Business & Marketing  

GDC 2017
Advanced Entrepreneurship: Avoiding Total Studio Disaster
by Jason Della Rocca (Execution Labs)
Business & Marketing  

GDC 2017
All Systems No: Learning from the Doomed Launch of 'Brigador'
by Hugh Monahan (Stellar Jockeys)
Business & Marketing  

GDC Europe 2016
'HITMAN' Season 1: From Executive Producer to Showrunner
by Hannes Seifert (Io-Interactive)
Business, Marketing and Management  

GDC Europe 2016
8 Keys to a Long Career in Games
by Don Daglow (4th Ring, Inc.)
Business, Marketing and Management  

GDC Europe 2016
All the Insights, Data, and Trends
by Joost van Dreunen (SuperData Research)
Business, Marketing and Management  

GDC Europe 2016
Data and Insights in the VR Market
by Patrick Walker (EEDAR)
Business, Marketing and Management  

GDC 2016
'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt' Theory and Practice of Gamer-Centric Brand De...
by Marcin Iwinski (CD Projekt RED)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
'World of Tanks': Disrupting the Console Space with F2P
by TJ Wagner (Wargaming)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
5 Mistakes by Good Teams That Produce Bad Free to Play Games
by Don Daglow (4thRing Inc.)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
8 Keys to a Long Career in Games
by Don Daglow (4thRing Inc.)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC Europe 2015
4.5 Million Players in 100 Days: Lessons from Dying Light
by Pawel Rohleder (Techland)
Business, Marketing and Management  

GDC Europe 2015
5 Ways to Boost Your Agility
by Nathalie Goh-Livorness (Microsoft)
Business, Marketing and Management  

GDC Europe 2015
7 Years, 1 Game - Success Through Community - Lessons from the Trenches
by Greg Balajewicz (BDA Entertainment Inc)
Business, Marketing and Management  

GDC Europe 2015
Advanced Game Analytics
by Dmitri Williams (Ninja Metrics)
Business, Marketing and Management  

GDC 2015
6 Years, 1 Game - THEY Must Like Us! Lessons from the Trenches
by Greg Balajewicz (BDA Entertainment Inc)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
9 Mobile Game Monetization Questions to Gain a Competitive Edge (And the...
by Maria Alegre (Chartboost)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
A Thousand Voices: Open Game Development
by Chris Avellone (Obsidian Entertainment)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Accelerating Your Success in the Complex Chinese Mobile Gaming Market (P...
by Ibrahim Dai (TalkingData Ltd.)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC Next 2014
A User-Centric Approach to Mobile Game Measurement (Presented by Google)
by Russell Ketchum (Google Inc)
Business & Marketing  

GDC Next 2014
Find the Right Users, Find Success (Presented by Google)
by Alex Valle (Google Inc)
Business & Marketing  

GDC Next 2014
Finding Life for Game Monetization Beyond the Megahit
by Lisa Marino (Rock You)
Business & Marketing  

GDC Next 2014
Go It Alone? Finding a Partner for Your Mobile Game
by Josh Burns (Independent)
Business & Marketing  

GDC China 2014
7 steps to Mastering Native Advertising on Mobile
by Stephen Chung (AppLift Inc.)
Business & Marketing - Chinese

GDC China 2014
Awesome Video Game Data
by Geoffrey Zatkin (EEDAR)
Business & Marketing - Chinese

GDC China 2014
Simple Skills to Rapidly Improve the Business Value of Mobile Game Products
by Shiying Wang (Linekong Enteractive Co., Ltd.)
Business & Marketing - Chinese

GDC China 2014
Success of CP: Learning from Products of 10 Million Monthly Income
by Tony Ni (FL Mobile)
Business & Marketing - Chinese

GDC Europe 2014
A Candid Interview with Star Citizen's Chris Roberts
by Mike Rose (Gamasutra)
Business, Marketing and Management  

GDC Europe 2014
A Great Disturbance in Development: The Dark Side of Early Access
by James Crowe (Bohemia Interactive)
Business, Marketing and Management  

GDC Europe 2014
Achieving International Success with Mobile Port and Publish
by Pascal Zuta (Aeria Games)
Business, Marketing and Management  

GDC Europe 2014
Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag Multiplayer: Crafting Good Monetization o...
by Quentin De Beukelaer (Ubisoft)
Business, Marketing and Management  

GDC 2014
A/B Testing for Game Design Iteration: A Bayesian Approach
by Steven Collins (Swrve)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2014
A/B Testing with Air Patriots (Presented by Amazon)
by Paul Cutsinger (Amazon)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2014
Amazon AppStream - New Gaming Experiences Using the Clouds for Game Stre...
by Collin Davis (Amazon)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2014
Amazon Developer Day (Presented by Amazon)
by Paul Cutsinger (Amazon)
Business, Marketing & Management  

ADC 2013
App Pricing Conundrum: Freemium vs Paid
by Donny Makower (RED Interactive Agency)
Brand Marketing Apps  

ADC 2013
Appium: Mobile Automation Made Awesome
by Jonathan Lipps (Sauce Labs)
Enterprise Apps  

ADC 2013
Apps and the Business & Marketing of Transmedia in Fiction
by Andrew Merkin (Mirada Studios)
Brand Marketing Apps  

ADC 2013
Beautiful Gestures
by Nate de Jager (Universal Mind)
Enterprise Apps  

GDC Next 2013
Beta Testing: Succeed or Die
by Jori Pearsall (GREE International)
Free to Play & New Game Business Models  

GDC Next 2013
Finding the Fun: Playtesting Your Way to Success
by Stephen Jarrett (Arkadium)
Free to Play & New Game Business Models  

GDC Next 2013
Free-to-Play Market: Data & Trends 2013
by Joost van Dreunen (SuperData Research)
Free to Play & New Game Business Models  

GDC Next 2013
How to Avoid Pay-to-Win with F2P
by Jack Emmert (Cryptic Studios)
Free to Play & New Game Business Models  

GDC Europe 2013
5 Key Best Practices in Free-to-Play Gaming
by Christopher Williams (Big Fish)
Free to Play Design & Business Summit  

GDC Europe 2013
A Perfect Storm - Managing Community Through Sea Change
by Linda Carlson (SOE)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC Europe 2013
Adaptation and Antifragility: Life of an Independent Studio
by Ilari Kuittinen (Housemarque)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC Europe 2013
Authentic Virality: You Share if You Care
by Jussi Laakkonen (Applifier)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2013
Awesome Video Game Data 2013
by Geoffrey Zatkin (EEDAR)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2013
Bootstrapping Your Way from 0 to 10M DAU: A First Time CEO's Guide to Gr...
by Perry Tam (Storm8, Inc.)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2013
Building a Great Studio Culture on a Budget
by Chris Charla (XBLA at Microsoft Game Studio)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2013
Building your Gaming Strategy for BlackBerry 10 (Presented by BlackBerry)
by Anders Jeppsson (BlackBerry)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC Online 2012
7 Learnings from Making AION Europe Free-to-Play
by Carsten van Husen (Gameforge 4D)
Business and Marketing  

GDC Online 2012
Age of Empires Online: Radical Transparency Clearly Works
by Kevin Perry (Microsoft)
Customer Experience  

GDC Online 2012
Bet on IP and Platform
by Kristian Segerstrale (Electronic Arts)
Business and Marketing  

GDC Online 2012
Bootstrapping 101: How College Kids Built a Thriving Game Company in Und...
by Justin Beck (PerBlue)
Business and Marketing  

GDC Europe 2012
Ask the Publishers - Adapting and Succeeding in a Changing Games Industry
by Matias Myllyrinne (Remedy Games)
Business, Marketing and Management  

GDC Europe 2012
Bootstrapping 101: How College Kids Built a Thriving Game Company in Und...
by Justin Beck (PerBlue)
Business, Marketing and Management  

GDC Europe 2012
Bubble Wars: A Case Study and Key Learnings from GameDuell
by Michael Kalkowski (GameDuell)
Business, Marketing and Management  

GDC Europe 2012
DEFCON: A Basic Guide to Public Relations Crisis Management
by Valerie Massey (CLARA)
Business, Marketing and Management  

GDC 2012
Awesome Video Game Data
by Geoffrey Zatkin (EEDAR)
Business and Marketing and Management  

GDC 2012
Back to the Garage: The Return of Indie Development (From Those Who Wer...
by Markus Persson (Mojang)
Business and Marketing and Management  

GDC 2012
Big Games in Small Packages: Lessons Learned In Bringing a Long-running ...
by John Bergman (Guild Software, Inc.)
Business and Marketing and Management  

GDC 2012
Bootstrapping 101: How College Kids Built a Thriving Game Company in Und...
by Justin Beck (PerBlue)
Business and Marketing and Management  

GDC China 2012
Core Games, Real Numbers: Comparative Stats on Asian and Western Games
by Emily Greer (Kongregate)
Business & Marketing  

GDC China 2012
Core Games, Real Numbers: Comparative Stats on Asian and Western Games
by Emily Greer (Kongregate)
Business & Marketing - Chinese

GDC China 2012
Data Analysis in game design: What is a good BI system, at what stage of...
by Harry Liu (Kabam)
Business & Marketing  

GDC China 2012
Data Analysis in game design: What is a good BI system, at what stage of...
by Harry Liu (Kabam)
Business & Marketing - Chinese

GDC China 2011
5MM Users in MyTown: Key Learnings from the #1 Geo-Location Game
by Keith Lee (Booyah)
Business & Marketing - Chinese

GDC China 2011
5MM Users in MyTown: Key Learnings from the #1 Geo-Location Game
by Keith Lee (Booyah)
Business & Marketing  

GDC China 2011
Building a Multithreaded Web Based Game Engine Using HTML5, CSS3 and Ja...
by Corey Clark, PhD (DeVry University)
Business & Marketing  

GDC China 2011
Building a Multithreaded Web Based Game Engine Using HTML5, CSS3 and Ja...
by Corey Clark, PhD (DeVry University)
Business & Marketing  

GDC Online 2011
150 Million Penguins Can't Be Wrong: Managing the Virtual World of Disne...
by Nicole Thompson (Disney's Club Penguin)
Customer Experience  

GDC Online 2011
Chaos in Motion: Transmedia as a Living Community Experience
by David Calvo (Ankama)
Customer Experience  

GDC Online 2011
Cloud Gaming: Present and Future
by Brandon Beck (Riot Games)
Business and Marketing  

GDC Online 2011
Community Management Best Practices from the Console Side
by Kellie Parker (SEGA of America)
Customer Experience  

GDC Europe 2011
Ask the Decision Makers: Find Out What Publishers Want and How to Get Wh...
by Martin de Ronde (Vanguard Games)
Business & Marketing  

GDC Europe 2011
Browser, Client or Both? How Should I Make My Game
by Frank Cartwright (K2 Network / GamersFirst)
Business & Marketing  

GDC Europe 2011
Building Premium Online Games for the New Games Era
by David Reid (Trion Worlds)
Business & Marketing  

GDC Europe 2011
Developer + Publisher = Partnership
by Fredrik Wester (Paradox Interactive)
Business & Marketing  

GDC 2011
1-Hour Video Game MBA
by Charlie Cleveland (Unknown Worlds Entertainment)
Business and Management  

GDC 2011
10 Lessons from 20 Years as an Entrepreneur: A Post-Mortem
by Don Daglow  
Business and Management  

GDC 2011
Alternative Business Models with Downloadable Games (DLG) and Downloadab...
by Geoffrey (GZ) Zatkin (Electronic Entertainment Design and Research)
Business and Management  

GDC 2011
Cash Flow for Keflings
by Lane Kiriyama (Wahoo Studios, Inc.)
Business and Management  

GDC Online 2010
Europe: The Next Big Thing in Gaming
by Heiko Hubertz (Bigpoint GmbH)
Business & Marketing  

GDC Online 2010
From Subscription to Microtransaction: Bringing HEROES KINGDOMS to the East
by Samson Mow (Ubisoft)
Business & Marketing  

GDC Online 2010
Game Developers Choice Online Awards
by N/A  
Business & Marketing  

GDC Online 2010
Gamification: Why Every Brand Wants to Be Zynga, and How You Can Help
by Gabe Zichermann (Independent)
Business & Marketing  

GDC Europe 2010
Achievement Design: Lessons From an Xbox Live Community Study
by Mikael Jakobsson (Malmoe University)
Business & Management  

GDC Europe 2010
All These Platforms and Business Models: How do I Target My Game?
by Don Daglow (Don Daglow Interactive Entertainment)
Business & Management  

GDC Europe 2010
Bottled Storm: Game Development Guerrilla Style
by Hermen Hulst (Guerrilla Games)
Business & Management  

GDC Europe 2010
Branded Apps in the App Store Games
by Michael Schade (FISHLABS Entertainment GmbH)
Business & Management  

GDC 2010
A Mysterious Adventure in Social Games
by Daniel James (Three Rings)
Business and Management  

GDC 2010
Agile: No Silver Bullet
by Rich Vogel (BioWare)
Business and Management  

GDC 2010
Are Women the New Hardcore Gamers?
by Wanda Meloni (M2 Research)
Business and Management  

GDC 2010
Building Global Bridges: the Benefits of Cross-Border Agile Game Develop...
by Adalsteinn (Alli) Ottarsson (CCP)
Business and Management  

GDC Austin/Online 2009
Developing Licensed Games: Do It Successfully In These Tough Economic Times
by Feargus Urquhart (Obsidian Entertainment, Inc.)
Business & Marketing  

GDC Austin/Online 2009
Emerging Trends in Gameplay: The Blurring Lines Between Casual And Hardcore
by Jon Radoff (GamerDNA, Inc.)
Business & Marketing  

GDC Austin/Online 2009
EULA's and Tax Incentives: Two More Things You Can't Avoid
by Sean Kane (Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP)
Business & Marketing  

GDC Austin/Online 2009
Facebook: Is the Cake a Lie?
by Blake Commagere (Independent Game Developer)
Business & Marketing  

GDC Europe 2009
Ask the Decision Makers: Find Out What Publishers Want And How To Get Wh...
by Sebastien Motte (Microsoft Game Studios)
Business & Management  

GDC Europe 2009
CCP: Winning the War
by Hilmar Veigar Petursson (CCP)
Business & Management  

GDC Europe 2009
From Max Payne to Alan Wake: Creating Intellectual Properties the Remedy...
by Matias Myllyrinne (Remedy Entertainment)
Business & Management  

GDC 2009
Bend Microsoft Project To Your Will - Again
by Mike McShaffry (Red Fly Studio)
Business and Management  

GDC 2009
Cheats for Marketers: Fresh Demographics on Teen (and Adult) Gaming & Ho...
by Amanda Lenhart (Pew Internet & American Life Project)
Business and Management  

GDC 2009
Creating, Maintaining and Realizing Value for a Videogame Business
by Mitch Lasky (Benchmark Capital)
Business and Management  

GDC 2009
From Bungie to Bootstrapping ' Starting an Independent Developer Studio
by Max Hoberman (Certain Affinity, Inc.)
Business and Management  

GDC 2008
(303) Casual Games Summit
by John Welch (Making Fun)
Business and Management  

GDC 2008
(305) Serious Games Summit
by Roger Smith (US Army Simulation and Training)
Business and Management  

GDC 2008
(307) Independent Games Summit
by Noel Llopis (Snappy Touch)
Business and Management  

GDC 1999
Conference Keynote: Shigeru Miyamoto
by Shigeru Miyamoto (Nintendo Co. Ltd.)
Business & Marketing  

GDC 1999
The Future of Interactive Entertainment
by Phil Harrison (Sony Computer Entertainment)
Business & Marketing  

GDC 1999
The Quake 3 Arena Rendering Architecture
by Brian Hook (Oculus)
Business & Marketing  

GDC 1998
Messiah: What You May or May Not Believe
by Dave Perry  
Business & Marketing  

GDC 1997
Surviving the Bloodbath - Perspectives on our Industry's Cycles
by Mike Dornbrook (Boffo Games)
Business & Marketing  

GDC 1997
The Secret of Eternal Product Life: Lessons from J.R.R. Tolkien and John...
by Jacob Stephens  
Business & Marketing