Game Developers Conference 2025
"Database-Oriented Design": Why We Built Our MMORPG Inside a Database (P...
by Tyler Cloutier (Clockwork Labs)
Programming  

Game Developers Conference 2025
'Apex Legends': Preventing Exploits and Shipping Risky Features Using......
by Ian Holstead (Respawn Entertainment)
Programming  

Game Developers Conference 2025
'Delta Force': Performant High-Quality Terrain and Biome Technology for ...
by Hang Jiao (Tencent Games)
Programming  

Game Developers Conference 2025
'Delta Force': Performant High-Quality Terrain and Biome Technology for ...
by Hang Jiao (Tencent Games)
Programming  

Game Developers Conference 2024
'Creed: Rise To Glory' Postmortem: Navigating the Six-Year Evolution of VR
by Sylvie Sherman (Survios)
Programming  

Game Developers Conference 2024
'Crystal of Atlan': Cross-Server Architecture Design and Optimization (P...
by Shuangxing Gao (ByteDance)
Programming  

Game Developers Conference 2024
'Destiny 2': Weaving Music Between Activities and the Open World
by Pete Kugler (Bungie)
Programming  

Game Developers Conference 2024
'Minecraft' Players at the Center of the Universe of Big Data (Presented...
by Francisco Rius  
Programming  

Showcase 2023
GoSkinning: An Innovative and Efficient Skinning Tool
by Zijiao Zeng (Tencent Games)
Programming  

Showcase 2023
User Interface in 'Cyberpunk 2077': Challenges and Optimizations
by Arkadiusz Antonik (CD Projekt RED)
Programming  

Showcase 2023
User Interface in 'Cyberpunk 2077': Challenges and Optimizations
by Arkadiusz Antonik (CD Projekt RED)
Programming  

Game Developers Conference 2023
'God of War Ragnarok's' Visual Scripting Solution
by Sam Sternklar (Santa Monica Studio)
Programming  

Game Developers Conference 2023
'God of War Ragnarok's' Visual Scripting Solution
by Sam Sternklar (Santa Monica Studio)
Programming  

Game Developers Conference 2023
'Us vs. Them' and the LaserDisc Debacle of 1984
by Warren Davis (Independent)
Programming  

Game Developers Conference 2023
Achieving High-Quality 90fps Realism in a Mobile Game, Technically and V...
by Zhi Liang (Netease)
Programming  

Game Developers Conference 2022
'Knockout City's' Parallel, Deterministic, and Rewindable Entity System
by Chris McEvoy (Velan Studios)
Programming  

Game Developers Conference 2022
'Knockout City's' Parallel, Deterministic, and Rewindable Entity System
by Chris McEvoy (Velan Studios)
Programming  

Game Developers Conference 2022
A Good Guerilla Is a Hidden Guerilla: Improving Stealth in 'Far Cry 6'
by Rich Welsh (Ubisoft Toronto)
Programming  

Game Developers Conference 2022
A Guided Tour of Blackreef: Rendering Technologies in Deathloop (Present...
by Gilles Marion (Arkane Lyon)
Programming  

Game Developers Conference 2021
'Final Fantasy VII' Remake: Automating Quality Assurance and the Tools f...
by Fabien Gravot (SQUARE-ENIX)
Programming  

Game Developers Conference 2021
'Final Fantasy VII' Remake: Automating Quality Assurance and the Tools f...
by Fabien Gravot (SQUARE-ENIX)
Programming  

Game Developers Conference 2021
'Genshin Impact': Building a Scalable AI System
by Shuo Xu (miHoYo)
Programming  

Game Developers Conference 2021
'Genshin Impact': Building a Scalable AI System
by Shuo Xu (miHoYo)
Programming  

Showcase 2021
Ask Me Anything: Q&A with Yacht Club Games' David D'Angelo
by David D'Angelo (Yacht Club Games)
Programming  

Showcase 2021
Quad Mesh Simplification in Frostbite
by Ashton Mason (Electronic Arts)
Programming  

Showcase 2021
Replicating Chaos: Vehicle Replication in 'Watch Dogs 2'
by Matt Delbosc (Ubisoft Toronto)
Programming  

Showcase 2021
The Casual (but Regal) Swipe: Creating Game Mechanics in 'Reigns'
by Francois Alliot (Nerial)
Programming  

Summer 2020
Ask Me Anything: Game Programming Q&A with Squirrel Eiserloh
by Squirrel Eiserloh (SMU Guildhall)
Programming  

Summer 2020
Handling Network Latency Variation in 'Modern Warfare'
by Mitchell Sanborn (Infinity Ward)
Programming  

Summer 2020
Handling Network Latency Variation in 'Modern Warfare'
by Mitchell Sanborn (Infinity Ward)
Programming  

Summer 2020
How to Dissect an Exploding Spaceship in 'Hardspace: Shipbreaker'
by Richard Harrison (Blackbird Interactive)
Programming  

GDC 2020
'Witcher 3' on the Nintendo Switch: CPU & Memory Optimization (Presented...
by Roman Lebedev (Saber Interactive Inc.)
Programming  

GDC 2020
Applying Reinforcement Learning to Develop Game AI in Netease Games
by Renjie Li (Netease)
Programming  

GDC 2020
Arm Mobile Studio: Providing Insights Into Graphics Performance Issues (...
by Ramnath Swamy (Arm)
Programming  

GDC 2020
Bleeding-Edge Effects on Mobile
by Andy Saia (Level Ex)
Programming  

2019
"Alexa, Give Your Game a Voice" (Presented by Amazon)
by Chris Morrow (Alexa Games)
Programming  

2019
"Shadows" of the Tomb Raider: Ray Tracing Deep Dive (Presented by NVIDIA)
by Jon Story (NVIDIA)
Programming  

2019
'Marvel's Spider-Man': A Technical Postmortem
by Elan Ruskin (Insomniac Games)
Programming  

2019
A Dark Mind: The AI of "The Dark" in 'BELOW'
by Robin Vierich (Capy Games)
Programming  

GDC 2018
"Advances in Real-Time Voxel-Based GI" & "Temporal Super-Resolution" (Pr...
by Alexey Panteleev (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2018
'Middle-earth: Shadow of War': Asset Pipeline Growing Pains
by Doug Heimer (Monolith Productions)
Programming  

GDC 2018
8 Frames in 16ms: Rollback Networking in 'Mortal Kombat' and 'Injustice 2'
by Michael Stallone (Netherrealm Games)
Programming  

GDC 2018
8 Frames in 16ms: Rollback Networking in 'Mortal Kombat' and 'Injustice 2'
by Michael Stallone (Netherrealm Games)
Programming  

GDC 2017
'Destiny' Shader Pipeline
by Natalya Tatarchuk (Bungie)
Programming  

GDC 2017
'Gears of War 4', Project Triton: Pre-Computed Environmental Wave Acoustics
by Nikunj Raghuvanshi (Microsoft Research)
Programming  

GDC 2017
'Gears of War 4', Project Triton: Pre-Computed Environmental Wave Acoustics
by Nikunj Raghuvanshi (Microsoft Research)
Programming  

GDC 2017
'Ghost Recon Wildlands': Terrain Tools and Technology
by Guillaume Werle (Ubisoft)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2016
4K Rendering Breakthrough: The Filtered and Culled Visibility Buffer
by Wolfgang Engel (Confetti)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2016
4K Rendering Breakthrough: The Filtered and Culled Visibility Buffer
by Wolfgang Engel (Confetti)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2016
Automatically Scaling Backend Architecture with Microservices
by Kevin Daniel Setiono (OnlineFussballManager GmbH)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2016
Create a 20 Times Faster Database Engine Optimized to MMOGs
by Shuichi Kurabayashi (Cygames, Inc.)
Programming  

GDC 2016
'Adventure Capitalist' Postmortem or: How Hyper Hippo Learned To Stop Wo...
by James Gwertzman (PlayFab, Inc.)
Programming  

GDC 2016
'Adventure Capitalist' Postmortem or: How Hyper Hippo Learned To Stop Wo...
by James Gwertzman (PlayFab, Inc.)
Programming  

GDC 2016
'Assassin's Creed Syndicate: London' Wasn't Built in a Day
by Damien Bastian (Ubisoft)
Programming  

GDC 2016
'Borderlands': The Pre-Sequel on Android - AAA Porting with NVIDIA CodeW...
by Jeffrey Kiel (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC China 2015
Bake a World in Seconds
by Wenyao Li (Netease Games)
Programming  

GDC China 2015
Bake a World in Seconds
by Wenyao Li (Netease Games)
Programming - Chinese

GDC China 2015
Rendering performance optimization of MOONLIGHT BLADE
by weibo xie (Tencent Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.)
Programming  

GDC China 2015
Rendering performance optimization of MOONLIGHT BLADE
by weibo xie (Tencent Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.)
Programming - Chinese

GDC Europe 2015
Adaptive Clothing System in Kingdom Come: Deliverance
by Tomas Barak (Warhorse Studios)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2015
Adaptive Clothing System in Kingdom Come: Deliverance
by Tomas Barak (Warhorse Studios)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2015
DX12 & Vulkan: Dawn of a New Generation of Graphics APIs
by Stephan Hodes (AMD)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2015
DX12 & Vulkan: Dawn of a New Generation of Graphics APIs
by Stephan Hodes (AMD)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Adaptive Virtual Texture Rendering in Far Cry 4
by Ka Chen (Ubisoft)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Adaptive Virtual Texture Rendering in Far Cry 4
by Ka Chen (Ubisoft)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Advanced Visual Effects With DirectX 11 & 12: Advancements in Tile-based...
by Gareth Thomas (AMD)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Advanced Visual Effects With DirectX 11 & 12: Advancements in Tile-based...
by Gareth Thomas (AMD)
Programming  

GDC China 2014
Advanced Real-time Path Find in Dynamic Environment in Supernauts
by Harri Hatinen (Grand Cru)
Programming - Chinese

GDC China 2014
Advanced Real-time Path Find in Dynamic Environment in Supernauts
by Harri Hatinen (Grand Cru)
Programming  

GDC China 2014
Advanced Real-time Path Find in Dynamic Environment in Supernauts
by Harri Hatinen (Grand Cru)
Programming - Chinese

GDC China 2014
AI Positioning and Spatial Evaluation: A Primer
by Dam'n Isla (The Molasses Flood)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2014
Advanced Linux Game Programming
by Leszek Godlewski (Nordic Games)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2014
Advanced Linux Game Programming
by Leszek Godlewski (Nordic Games)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2014
Developing Virtual Reality Experiences with the Oculus Rift
by Tom Forsyth (Oculus VR)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2014
Developing Virtual Reality Experiences with the Oculus Rift
by Tom Forsyth (Oculus VR)
Programming  

GDC 2014
50 Camera Mistakes
by John Nesky (thatgamecompany)
Programming  

GDC 2014
A Context-Aware Character Dialog System
by Jason Gregory (Naughty Dog)
Programming  

GDC 2014
A/B Testing for Game Design Iteration: A Bayesian Approach
by Steven Collins (Swrve)
Programming  

GDC 2014
A/B Testing for Game Design Iteration: A Bayesian Approach
by Steven Collins (Swrve)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2013
C++ in the Browser: A Tale from the Trenches
by Andre Weissflog (Bigpoint GmbH)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2013
Creating the AI for the Living, Breathing World of Hitman: Absolution
by Mika Vehkala (IO Interactive A/S)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2013
Game Analytics and Data Literacy
by Christoph Safferling (Ubisoft Blue Byte)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2013
OpenGL ES 3.0 - Challenges and Opportunities
by Marc Hehmeyer (FISHLABS Entertainment GmbH)
Programming  

GDC 2013
100,000 Counters, Every Ten Seconds: UNIX Throughput in Reality
by Jon Watte (IMVU, Inc.)
Programming  

GDC 2013
100,000 Counters, Every Ten Seconds: UNIX Throughput in Reality
by Jon Watte (IMVU, Inc.)
Programming  

GDC 2013
Accelerate Your Mobile Apps and Games for Android on ARM (Presented by ARM)
by Matthew Du Puy (ARM)
Programming  

GDC 2013
Advanced Visual Effects with DirectX 11: D3D11 Deferred Contexts
by Bryan Dudash (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC Online 2012
Bootstrapping the Infrastructure of ChefVille and Farmville 2
by Hao Chen (Zynga)
Programming  

GDC Online 2012
CityVille: Lessons Learned & Tools Used to Run a Large Social Game
by Kartik Ayyar (Zynga)
Programming  

GDC Online 2012
Compiling C++ and C# Games for the Web
by Alon Zakai (Mozilla)
Programming  

GDC Online 2012
Compiling C++ and C# Games for the Web
by Alon Zakai (Mozilla)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2012
Applying Retro Techniques to HTML5 Development
by Russell Kay (YoYo Games Ltd)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2012
Bringing AAA Graphics to Mobile Platforms
by Niklas Smedberg (Epic Games)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2012
Bringing Dead Trigger into Life
by Marek Rabas (Madfinger Games)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2012
Bringing Dead Trigger into Life
by Marek Rabas (Madfinger Games)
Programming  

GDC 2012
A Different Approach for Continuous Physics
by Vincent Robert (Ubisoft)
Programming  

GDC 2012
A Different Approach for Continuous Physics
by Vincent Robert (Ubisoft)
Programming  

GDC 2012
A Practical Guide to Building Browser Based Games Using HTML5
by Marc O'Morain (Swrve)
Programming  

GDC 2012
A Practical Guide to Building Browser Based Games Using HTML5
by Marc O'Morain (Swrve)
Programming  

GDC China 2012
Cutting the Pipe: Achieving Sub-Second Iteration Times
by Niklas Frykholm (BitSquid AB)
Programming - Chinese

GDC China 2012
Cutting the Pipe: Achieving Sub-Second Iteration Times
by Niklas Frykholm (BitSquid AB)
Programming  

GDC China 2012
Cutting the Pipe: Achieving Sub-Second Iteration Times
by Niklas Frykholm (BitSquid AB)
Programming - Chinese

GDC China 2012
Cutting the Pipe: Achieving Sub-Second Iteration Times
by Niklas Frykholm (BitSquid AB)
Programming  

GDC China 2011
Brewing your Own Game Engine - the Pros and Cons of Using Open Source So...
by Yo Feng (Coconut Island Studio)
Programming  

GDC China 2011
Brewing your Own Game Engine - the Pros and Cons of Using Open Source So...
by Yo Feng (Coconut Island Studio)
Programming - Chinese

GDC China 2011
Brewing your Own Game Engine - the Pros and Cons of Using Open Source So...
by Yo Feng (Coconut Island Studio)
Programming - Chinese

GDC China 2011
Brewing your Own Game Engine - the Pros and Cons of Using Open Source So...
by Yo Feng (Coconut Island Studio)
Programming  

GDC Online 2011
Building a Multithreaded Web Based Game Engine Using HTML5, CSS3 and Jav...
by Corey Clark, PhD (DeVry University)
Programming  

GDC Online 2011
Building a Multithreaded Web Based Game Engine Using HTML5, CSS3 and Jav...
by Corey Clark, PhD (DeVry University)
Programming  

GDC Online 2011
Building the Chat Service for League of Legends: From Struggle to Redemp...
by Christopher McArthur (Riot Games)
Programming  

GDC Online 2011
Building the Chat Service for League of Legends: From Struggle to Redemp...
by Christopher McArthur (Riot Games)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2011
Addressing Human Scalability Through Multi-User Editing Using Revision D...
by John Rittenhouse (CCP Games)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2011
Addressing Human Scalability Through Multi-User Editing Using Revision D...
by John Rittenhouse (CCP Games)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2011
Crysis 2 Multiplayer : A Programmer's Postmortem
by Peter Hall (Crytek)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2011
Crysis 2 Multiplayer : A Programmer's Postmortem
by Peter Hall (Crytek)
Programming  

GDC 2011
1000s of Zombies, 1000s of Problems: The DEAD RISING 2 Multiplayer Exper...
by Dee Jay Randall (Capcom Game Studio Vancouver)
Programming  

GDC 2011
Adaptive Order Independent Transparency: A Fast and Practical Approach t...
by Marco Salvi (Intel Corporation)
Programming  

GDC 2011
Advanced Visual Effects with DirectX 11
by Evan Hart (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2011
Advanced Visual Effects with DirectX 11
by Evan Hart (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC Online 2010
Big Wars ' 256-Player Real-Time Multiplayer Server Architecture
by Lin Luo (Independent)
Programming  

GDC Online 2010
Building a Massive Game Service in the Cloud
by Luke Rajlich (Zynga)
Programming  

GDC Online 2010
Building Social Flash Games with an Open Source Engine: PushButton Engin...
by Ben Garney (PushButton Labs)
Programming  

GDC Online 2010
MMO 101: Building Disney's Server System
by Roger Hughston (Disney Online Studios)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2010
3D Development Engine Shootout
by Mark Rein (Epic Games)
Technology  

GDC Europe 2010
Advanced DirectX 11: DirectCompute by Example
by Jason Yang (Advanced Micro Devices)
Technology  

GDC Europe 2010
Advanced Material Rendering
by Michal Drobot (Reality Pump Game Development Studios)
Technology  

GDC Europe 2010
Advanced Material Rendering
by Michal Drobot (Reality Pump Game Development Studios)
Technology  

GDC Canada 2010
A Dynamic Component Architecture for High Performance Gameplay
by Terrance Cohen (Ogmento)
Programming  

GDC Canada 2010
Building Game UI with WebKit
by Christopher Stott (EA Blackbox)
Programming  

GDC Canada 2010
Forza Motorsport 3 Audio: Design, Process and Pipeline
by Greg Shaw (Turn 10 Studios, Microsoft)
Programming  

GDC Canada 2010
Forza Motorsport 3 Audio: Design, Process and Pipeline
by Greg Shaw (Turn 10 Studios, Microsoft)
Programming  

GDC 2010
3D Game Creation on PlayStation 3
by Ian Bickerstaff (Sony Computer Entertainment)
Programming  

GDC 2010
3D Game Creation on PlayStation 3
by Ian Bickerstaff (Sony Computer Entertainment)
Programming  

GDC 2010
Advanced Visual Effects with Direct3D
by Alex Vlachos (Valve)
Programming  

GDC 2010
Advanced Visual Effects with Direct3D
by Alex Vlachos (Valve)
Programming  

GDC Austin/Online 2009
Casual Game Development for AAA Teams
by Rafhael Cedeno (Multiverse)
Programming  

GDC Austin/Online 2009
Come and See the Elephant - Challenges Encountered Growing an MMO
by Bill Dalton (BioWare Austin)
Programming  

GDC Austin/Online 2009
Cover Me! Promoting MMO Player Interaction through Advanced AI
by Dave Mark (Intrinsic Algorithm)
Programming  

GDC Austin/Online 2009
Cover Me! Promoting MMO Player Interaction through Advanced AI
by Dave Mark (Intrinsic Algorithm)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2009
Building a Dynamic Lighting Engine for VELVET ASSASSIN
by Christian Schuler (Replay Studios)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2009
Compressing Loads of Content Into Only 20MB: A Case Study of SWORDS & ...
by Joost van Dongen (Ronimo Games)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2009
Dual Numbers: Simple Math, Easy C++ Coding, and Lots of Tricks
by Gino van den Bergen (DTECTA)
Programming  

GDC Europe 2009
Efficient PCF Shadow Map Filtering
by Kees van Kooten (Virtual Proteins)
Programming  

GDC 2009
(100) Advanced Visual Effects with Direct3D for PC
by Ashu Rege (NVIDIA Corporation)
Programming  

GDC 2009
(100) Advanced Visual Effects with Direct3D for PC
by Ashu Rege (NVIDIA Corporation)
Programming  

GDC 2009
(100) Advanced Visual Effects with Direct3D for PC
by Ashu Rege (NVIDIA Corporation)
Programming  

GDC 2009
(100) Advanced Visual Effects with Direct3D for PC
by Ashu Rege (NVIDIA Corporation)
Programming  

GDC 2008
(103) Advanced Visual Effects with Direct3D
by Alex Vlachos (Valve)
Programming  

GDC 2008
(206) Studies of Threading Successes in Popular PC Games and Engines
by Paul Lindberg (Intel)
Programming  

GDC 2008
(206) Studies of Threading Successes in Popular PC Games and Engines
by Paul Lindberg (Intel)
Programming  

GDC 2008
(206) Studies of Threading Successes in Popular PC Games and Engines
by Paul Lindberg (Intel)
Programming  

GDC 2007
(105) Core Techniques and Algorithms in Shader Programming
by Matthias Wloka (Visual Concepts, TakeTwo Inc.)
Programming  

GDC 2007
(105) Core Techniques and Algorithms in Shader Programming
by Matthias Wloka (Visual Concepts, TakeTwo Inc.)
Programming  

GDC 2007
3D in 3D: Rendering Anaglyph Stereographics in Real-time
by Bruce Oberg (Sucker Punch Productions)
Programming  

GDC 2007
3D in 3D: Rendering Anaglyph Stereographics in Real-time
by Bruce Oberg (Sucker Punch Productions)
Programming  

GDC 2006
Advanced Light and Shadow Culling Methods
by Eric Lengyel (Terathon Software)
Programming  

GDC 2006
Best Practices for Game Development
by Grady Booch (IBM)
Programming  

GDC 2006
Building Project Gotham Racing 3: An Xbox 360 Postmortem
by Gareth Wilson (Bizarre Creations)
Programming  

GDC 2006
Collada for Playstation3
by Richard Stenson (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
Programming  

GDC 2005
PSP Launch Postmortem: A Tale of Two Titles
by Aaron Ondek  
Programming  

GDC 2004
Advanced Real-Time Reflectance
by Thomas Peltier  
Programming  

GDC 2004
AI and Design: How AI Enables Designers
by Rishi Bhattacharya  
Programming  

GDC 2004
Beyond Finite State Machines: Managing Complex, Intermixing Behavior H...
by Joseph W. Popinski III  
Programming  

GDC 2004
Building a Million Particle System
by Cheryl Jackson  
Programming  

GDC 2003
Little to Big: What Changes?
by Frederick Brooks, Jr.  
Programming  

GDC 2001
BSP Collision Detection As Used In MDK2 and NeverWinter Nights
by Stan Melax (BioWare)
Programming  

GDC 2001
Interactive Animated Characters
by Ken Perlin (NYU)
Programming  

GDC 2001
The Basics of Team AI
by John O'Brien (Red Storm Entertainment)
Programming  

GDC 2000
Half-Life and Team Fortress Networking
by Yahn Bernier  
Programming  

GDC 2000
It's Great to be Back! Fast Code, Game Programming, and Other Thoughts f...
by Michael Abrash (Rad Game Tools)
Programming  

GDC 2000
Programming Keynote: New Pioneers at the Graphics Frontier
by Kurt Akeley  
Programming  

GDC 2000
Tricks of the Programming Trade
by Jon Bentley  
Programming  

GDC 1998
Blazing Fast Code
by Jon Bentley  
Programming  

GDC 1998
Collision Detection in Pac-Man Ghost Zone: Collision Techniques in a 3D ...
by Gilbert Colgate  
Programming  

GDC 1998
High Performance Game Programming in C++
by Paul Pedriana  
Programming  

GDC 1997
Excerpt: Quake Postmortem - Optimizing Level Viewing
by Michael Abrash (Rad Game Tools)
Programming  

GDC 1997
Excerpt: Quake Postmortem - Polygons As Blobs
by Michael Abrash (Rad Game Tools)
Programming