GDC Vault

GDC 2014
#1ReasonToBe
by Brenda Romero (UC Santa Cruz)
Advocacy

GDC 2014
'Nuff Said: Comics as Design Documentation
by Matthew Derby (Harmonix)
Design

GDC 2014
10 Questions to Ask About the Future of Games (Presented by Digital Rive...
by Dean Takahashi (VentureBeat)
Monetization

GDC 2014
14th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards

Special Event

GDC 2014
16th Annual Independent Games Festival Awards

Special Event

GDC 2014
1979 Revolution: A Case Study in Bringing Real Stories to Gaming
by Navid Khonsari (iNK Stories)
Game Narrative Summit

GDC 2014
2D Animation at Klei Entertainment
by Jeff Agala (Klei Entertainment)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
3D Audio: Back to the Future?
by Brian Schmidt (Ear Games)
Audio

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

GDC 2014
500 Nights of Failure: Designing Republique's "One Touch" Gameplay
by Greg Raab (Camouflaj)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit

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

GDC 2014
A Study in Transparency: How Board Games Matter
by Soren Johnson (Mohawk Games)
Design

GDC 2014
A Survey of the Modern QA Department
by Robb Nicholas (Apptio)
QA Summit

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
AAA Academics: Superstar Designers in Academia
by Brenda Romero (UC Santa Cruz)
GDC Education Summit

GDC 2014
AAA Mobile Games Development: Challenges
by Romain Sididris (Gameloft)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit

GDC 2014
Accessibility: Lessons Learned from Designing for Gamers with Disabilities
by Ian Hamilton (Ian Hamilton DC)
Advocacy

GDC 2014
Achieving the Best Performance with IA Graphics, Tips, Tricks, and Cleve...
by Blake Taylor (Intel Corp)
Programming

GDC 2014
Acquisition for F2P Games on the Web
by Kimberly Pointer (Kabam)
Free to Play Design & Business Summit

GDC 2014
Adaptive Music Preparation for Live Recording: A Primer
by Lennie Moore (3l33t Music)
Production

GDC 2014
Adding High-End Graphical Effects to GT Racing 2 on Android x86. (Presen...
by Adrian Voinea (Gameloft)
Programming

GDC 2014
Advanced Visual Effects with DirectX 11: Compute-Based GPU Particle Systems
by Gareth Thomas (AMD)
Programming

GDC 2014
Advanced Visual Effects with DirectX 11: DX11 Software Tessellation
by John Kloetzli (Firaxis)
Programming

GDC 2014
Advanced Visual Effects with DirectX 11: Efficient Work Submission in Di...
by Evan Hart (NVIDIA)
Programming

GDC 2014
Advanced Visual Effects with DirectX 11: From Terrain to Godrays - Bette...
by Andrei Tatarinov (NVIDIA)
Programming

GDC 2014
Advanced Visual Effects with DirectX 11: Grass, Fur and Hair
by Karl Hillesland (AMD)
Programming

GDC 2014
Advanced Visual Effects with DirectX 11: Real Virtual Texturing - Taking...
by Cem Cebenoyan (NVIDIA)
Programming

GDC 2014
Advanced Visual Effects with DirectX 11: Tessellation in Call of Duty: G...
by Wade Brainerd (Activision)
Programming

GDC 2014
Advanced Visual Effects with DirectX 11: Vertex Shader Tricks - New Ways...
by Bill Bilodeau (AMD)
Programming

GDC 2014
Agile Lessons from Ryse and Crysis 3
by Patrick Payne (Crytek GmbH)
Production

GDC 2014
AI Postmortem: Hearthstone
by Brian Schwab (Formerly of Blizzard Entertainment)
AI Summit

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

GDC 2014
Analysis and Lessons from the Global Free-to-Play Market
by Tom Nichols (Aeria Games & Entertainment)
Free to Play Design & Business Summit

GDC 2014
Animation Bootcamp: An Indie Approach to Procedural Animation
by David Rosen (Wolfire Games)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Animation Bootcamp: Animating Cameras for Games
by Simon Unger (Robotoki)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Animation Bootcamp: Animating the Spy Fantasy in Splinter Cell
by Kristjan Zadziuk (Ubisoft Toronto)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Animation Bootcamp: Animation Prototyping for Games
by Jay Hosfelt (Epic Games)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Animation Bootcamp: Establishing an Ecology for NPCs
by Mike Jungbluth (Zenimax Online)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Animation Bootcamp: Fluid and Powerful Animation within Frame Restrictions
by Mariel Cartwright (Lab Zero Games)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Animation Bootcamp: Intro & Achieving a Believable Performance
by Tim Borrelli (5th Cell)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Animation Bootcamp: Using the Power of Layered Animation to Expand Premi...
by Ryan Duffin (EA DICE)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Antichamber: An Overnight Success, Seven Years in the Making
by Alexander Bruce (Antichamber)
Independent Games Summit

GDC 2014
Antichamber: Three Years of Hardcore Iteration
by Alexander Bruce (Antichamber)
Design

GDC 2014
Approaching Zero Driver Overhead in OpenGL (Presented by NVIDIA)
by Cass Everitt (NVIDIA)
Programming

GDC 2014
Art Direction is Not Just Googling Images
by Robh Ruppel (Naughty Dog)
Production

GDC 2014
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - Road to Next-Gen Graphics
by Bartlomiej Wronski (Ubisoft Montreal)
Programming

GDC 2014
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Multiplayer - Crafting Good Monetization...
by Damien Kieken (Ubisoft)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Audio Bootcamp: Audio Design
by Nicky Birch (Somethin' Else)
Audio

GDC 2014
Audio Bootcamp: Intro/Sound Design
by Garry Taylor (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
Audio

GDC 2014
Audio Bootcamp: Mixing/Production
by Tom Hays (Rocket Sound, LLC)
Audio

GDC 2014
Audio Bootcamp: Music
by Austin Wintory (Wintory Global Engineering)
Audio

GDC 2014
Audio Bootcamp: Small Team Game Development
by Dren McDonald (nerdtracks.com)
Audio

GDC 2014
Aural Immersion: Audio Technology in The Last of Us
by Jonathan Lanier (Naughty Dog, Inc.)
Audio

GDC 2014
Authoring Tools Framework: Open Source from Sony's Worldwide Studios (Pr...
by Ron Little (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
Programming

GDC 2014
Autodesk Gameware Updates (Presented by Autodesk)
by Ankur Mohan (Autodesk)
Programming

GDC 2014
Avoiding Catastrophic Performance Loss: Detecting CPU-GPU Sync Points
by John McDonald (NVIDIA)
Programming

GDC 2014
Awesome Video Game Data 2014
by Geoffrey Zatkin (EEDAR)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Back to The Future of QA
by Dave Parkinson (Sony Computer Entertainment)
QA Summit

GDC 2014
BADLAND Postmortem: Building on App Store Launch Success
by Johannes Vuorinen (Frogmind)
Independent Games Summit

GDC 2014
Battlefield 4: Creating a More Dynamic Battlefield
by Linnea Harrison (EA DICE)
Production

GDC 2014
Behind the Great Wall: Analysis of China's Mobile Gaming Industry (Pres...
by Leo Cui (TalkingData)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Behind the Realm Reborn
by Naoki Yoshida (Square Enix Co. Ltd.)
Production - Japanese

GDC 2014
Behind the Realm Reborn
by Naoki Yoshida (Square Enix Co. Ltd.)
Production

GDC 2014
Believable Make-Believe: Putting the Player at the Heart of Tearaway
by Rex Crowle (Media Molecule)
Design

GDC 2014
Better Sound Through Collaboration
by Rob Bridgett (Clockwork Fox Studios)
Audio

GDC 2014
Beyond Attention: The Player Involvement Model
by Gordon Calleja (University of Malta/Mighty Box Games)
Design

GDC 2014
Beyond Fun: Difficult Topics Inspire Story and Design
by Jill Murray (Ubisoft)
Game Narrative Summit

GDC 2014
Beyond Graphics: Reaching the Visually Impaired Gamer
by Brian Schmidt (Ear Games)
Advocacy

GDC 2014
Big Data Analytics 101: From DAU to Predictive Modeling
by Dmitri Williams (Ninja Metrics)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Bite-Sized Storytelling: Creating Meaningful Mobile Game Narratives in S...
by Levi Buchanan (Chillingo)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Breaking the Mold: Experiments in Evolving Game Narrative from the USC G...
by Tracy Fullerton (USC Game Innovation Lab)
Game Narrative Summit

GDC 2014
Bridging the Gap Between Your Audio Engine and Your Game
by Sean Lohrisch (Capybara Games)
Audio

GDC 2014
Bringing BioShock Infinite's Elizabeth to Life: An AI Development Postmo...
by John Abercrombie (Irrational Games)
AI Summit

GDC 2014
Bringing Console Quality Lighting to Mobile (Presented by Imagination Te...
by Peter McGuinness (Imagination Technologies)
Programming

GDC 2014
Bringing the Power of YouTube to your Games (Presented by Google)
by The YouTube Product Team (Google)
Advocacy

GDC 2014
Bringing Unreal Engine 4 to OpenGL: Enabling High-End Visuals from PC to...
by Evan Hart (NVIDIA)
Programming

GDC 2014
Build Games that Scale in the Cloud (Presented by Google)
by Chris Elliott (Google)
Advocacy

GDC 2014
Building a Scalable Infrastructure Platform for SMITE, Global Agenda and...
by Todd Harris (Hi-Rez Studios)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Building Convincing Virtual Worlds: The Use of IP in Games
by Marc Mayer (Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Building Customer Support and Loyalty
by Jeremy Ehrhardt (KIXEYE)
Production

GDC 2014
Building Customizable Characters for Bungie's Destiny
by Scott Shepherd (Bungie)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Building the Content that Drives the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Ec...
by Bronwen Grimes (Valve)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Building Your Indie Game Into a Powerhouse Brand (Sponsored by Kontagent...
by Ville Heijari (Kontagent+PlayHaven)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Capturing Reality: Gathering Reference for Forza Motorsport 5
by Arthur Shek (Microsoft Studios (Turn 10))
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Change Is Good: The Importance of Iteration Within a Character Art Pipeline
by Gavin Goulden (gavimage.com)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Character Balance: More than the Numbers
by Robert Gallerani (Vicarious Visions, Inc.)
Design

GDC 2014
Character Design Across Multiple Game Genres
by Arnold Tsang (Blizzard Entertainment)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Characterization, Purpose and Action: Creating Strong Video Game Characters
by Jeremy Bernstein (Freelance)
Design

GDC 2014
Checkered Flag: Forza Motorsport 5 Soundtrack Postmortem
by Lance Hayes (DJDM Dot Com Music Publishing)
Audio

GDC 2014
Checkmate: Cross-Platform Development Tips to Make You King
by Katherine de Leon (GSN Games)
Free to Play Design & Business Summit

GDC 2014
Child's Play: Playtesting with Children in the World of Skylanders
by Gareth Griffiths (Activision Blizzard)
Production

GDC 2014
Classic Game Postmortem: Robotron: 2084
by Eugene Jarvis (Raw Thrills)
Design

GDC 2014
Classic Game Postmortem: Shenmue
by Yu Suzuki (Ys Net)
Design

GDC 2014
Classic Game Postmortem: Shenmue
by Yu Suzuki (Ys Net)
Design - Japanese

GDC 2014
Classic Game Postmortem: Shenmue
by Yu Suzuki (Ys Net)
Design

GDC 2014
Classic Game Postmortem: Zork
by Dave Lebling (BAE Systems)
Design

GDC 2014
Classic Studio Postmortem: Lucasfilm Games
by Noah Falstein (Google)
Design

GDC 2014
Cloud Architectures, Onboarding, and Game Streaming with NVIDIA GRID (Pr...
by Franck Diard (NVIDIA)
Programming

GDC 2014
Code Clinic: How to Write Code the Compiler Can Actually Optimize
by Mike Acton (Insomniac Games)
Programming

GDC 2014
Come Rain or Shine: Rain Postmortem (English translation)
by Yuki Ikeda (Sony Computer Entertainment/Japan Studio)
Production

GDC 2014
Compiling to the Web: Getting Started With asm.js and Emscripten (Presen...
by Alon Zakai (Mozilla)
Programming

GDC 2014
Concurrent Interactions in The Sims 4
by Peter Ingebretson (Electronic Arts (Maxis))
Programming

GDC 2014
Core Games, Real Numbers: Going Cross-Platform
by Emily Greer (Kongregate)
Free to Play Design & Business Summit

GDC 2014
Crafting a Next-Gen Material Pipeline for The Order: 1886
by David Neubelt (Ready At Dawn Studios)
Programming

GDC 2014
Crafting Better Creatures
by Stephan Schutze (Sound Librarian)
Audio

GDC 2014
Create, Rig and Animate Game-Ready Characters in Under 10 minutes - New ...
by Stefano Corazza (Mixamo Inc.)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Creating BioShock Infinite's Elizabeth
by Shawn Robertson (Irrational Games)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Creating FPS Open Worlds Using Procedural Techniques
by Tom Betts (Big Robot)
Programming

GDC 2014
Creating Frankenstein's Monster: Case Studies of Building a New NPC
by Daniel Brewer (Digital Extremes)
AI Summit

GDC 2014
Creating Unique Interactive Experiences with the PlayStation4 (Presented...
by Chris Norden (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
Programming

GDC 2014
Creatrilogy: Three Talks Exploring Indie Game Creativity
by Tom Betts (Big Robot)
Independent Games Summit

GDC 2014
Crimewatch 2.0: Redesigning EVE Online's Policing System
by Matthew Woodward (CCP Games)
Design

GDC 2014
Crowdsourcing the Localization of Gone Home
by Johnnemann Nordhagen (The Fullbright Company)
Localization Summit

GDC 2014
Curating Video Game Culture: The New Wave of Video Game Events
by Marie Foulston (The Wild Rumpus)
Advocacy

GDC 2014
Customer Support - Critical to Game Development
by Paul Boustany (Activision)
QA Summit

GDC 2014
Death to the Three Act Structure! Toward a Unique Structure for Game Nar...
by Richard Rouse III (Microsoft Game Studios)
Game Narrative Summit

GDC 2014
Deformable Snow Rendering in Batman: Arkham Origins
by Colin Barre-Brisebois (WB Games Montreal)
Programming

GDC 2014
Design and Monetization Strategies in Highly Successful F2P Games
by Nick Fortugno (Playmatics)
Free to Play Design & Business Summit

GDC 2014
Designers Are from Saturn, Programmers Are from Uranus
by Brian Schwab (Formerly of Blizzard Entertainment)
Design

GDC 2014
Designing In-Game Purchases
by Ethan Levy (FamousAspect)
Free to Play Design & Business Summit

GDC 2014
Designing the Bungie Animation Workflow
by Richard Lico (Bungie)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Developing Virtual Reality Games and Experiences (Presented by Oculus VR)
by Tom Forsyth (Oculus VR)
Programming

GDC 2014
Direct3D and the Future of Graphics APIs (Presented by AMD)
by Dave Oldcorn (AMD)
Programming

GDC 2014
DirectX Advancements in the Many-Core Era: Getting the Most out of the P...
by Dan Baker (Oxide Games)
Programming

GDC 2014
Discovering the Story and Character in the Real-Time, Animated Short Fil...
by James Zachary (Zachary Studios)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Don't Starve: Creating Community Around an Antisocial Game
by Kevin Forbes (Klei Entertainment)
Design

GDC 2014
Economic Balancing and Improved Monetization Through Clever Sink Design
by Vili Lehdonvirta (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
Free to Play Design & Business Summit

GDC 2014
Economies Unite! Cross-Platform Monetization and Player Retention
by Aaron Brady (Facebook)
Free to Play Design & Business Summit

GDC 2014
Ellie: Buddy AI in The Last of Us
by Max Dyckhoff (Naughty Dog, Inc.)
Programming

GDC 2014
Emergent Stories in Crusader Kings II
by Henrik Fahraeus (Paradox Development Studio)
Design

GDC 2014
Emerging Communities: A Snapshot of the Brazilian Indie Game Development...
by Arthur Protasio (Fableware/ IGDA Rio de Janeiro)
Localization Summit

GDC 2014
Empathetic Games Are Here to Stay! What's Next?
by Vander Caballero (Minority Media)
Game Narrative Summit

GDC 2014
Empathy for Octopodes: How Octodad Helped Young Horses Grow Up
by John Murphy (Young Horses)
Independent Games Summit

GDC 2014
Engaging Your Audience with Mobile Push Notifications (Presented by Amazon)
by Jon Turow (Amazon Web Services)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Engaging Your Entire Community (Presented by Google)
by Todd Kerpelman (Google)
Programming

GDC 2014
Engine Postmortem of inFAMOUS: Second Son
by Adrian Bentley (Sucker Punch Productions)
Programming

GDC 2014
Engineering Better Dialogue
by Sheri Graner Ray (Zombie Cat Studios)
Game Narrative Summit

GDC 2014
Enhancing Sportsmanship in Online Games
by Jeffrey Lin (Riot Games)
Design

GDC 2014
Enter the Stage: Cinematic Dialogue in Performance Capture
by Richie Nieto (Ubisoft Toronto)
Production

GDC 2014
Environmentally Conscious AI: Improving Spatial Analysis and Reasoning
by Cloderic Mars (MASA Group)
AI Summit

GDC 2014
Every Two Weeks: Accelerating Guild Wars 2
by Kristen Bornemann (ArenaNet)
Production

GDC 2014
Everybody Lies: Survivorship Bias
by Iskander Khabibrakhmanov (Innova Systems)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Everything You Wanted to Know about Latin America (in 25 min.)
by Ken Luna (IGDA Mexico)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Evocative Storytelling: Write Less, Reveal More
by Daniel Greenberg (Media Rez)
Game Narrative Summit

GDC 2014
Evolving Bungie's Production Practices for a Brave New World
by Mark Noseworthy (Bungie)
Production

GDC 2014
Evolving the Server-Side Architecture of League of Legends
by Andrew McVeigh (Riot Games)
Programming

GDC 2014
Experience the Magic of Respawn's Titanfall With the New NVIDIA Nsight 4...
by Jeffrey Kiel (NVIDIA)
Programming

GDC 2014
Experimental Gameplay Workshop
by Robin Hunicke (Funomena)
Design

GDC 2014
Exploring the Human Element Of BitSummit
by James Mielke (BitSummit)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Extracurricular Video Game Development Clubs: How They Complement the Cl...
by Chris DeLeon (HobbyGameDev)
GDC Education Summit

GDC 2014
Extrasolar Postmortem: Game Design at 0.0003 FPS
by Rob Jagnow (Lazy 8 Studios)
Independent Games Summit

GDC 2014
F2P on PS4-Can it Work? (Presented by Sony Computer Entertainment America)
by Jared Gerritzen (Zombie Studios)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Face Animation Retargeting in Destiny
by Tom Sanocki (Bungie)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Facebook Unlocked: Trends & Growth Opportunities for Cross-Platform Game...
by Vishu Gupta (Facebook)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Feature Creep or Essential Mechanics? Top Twenty Things Game Development...
by Mia Consalvo (Concordia University)
GDC Education Summit

GDC 2014
Federal Opportunities for Game Faculty and Students
by Noah Wardrip-Fruin (UC Santa Cruz)
GDC Education Summit

GDC 2014
Fewer Tifas or More Sephiroths? Male Sexualization in Games
by Michelle Clough (Freelance)
Game Narrative Summit

GDC 2014
Finding the Spark: Working with Live Players
by Austin Wintory (Wintory Global Engineering)
Audio

GDC 2014
Flash Forward
by Mark Cerny (Cerny Games Inc.)
Advocacy

GDC 2014
FORCED Postmortem: Living Together for Three Years
by Steffen Kabbelgaard Gronning (BetaDwarf)
Production

GDC 2014
Free-Range AI: Creating Compelling Characters for Open World Games
by Jeet Shroff (Avalanche Studios)
AI Summit

GDC 2014
From Box2D to Liquid Fun: Just Add Water-like Particles! (Presented by G...
by Wolff Dobson (Google)
Advocacy

GDC 2014
From Discovery to Churn - Mobile Gaming Consumer Funnel Data
by Jesse Divnich (EEDAR)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
From Indie to AAA to Indie: The Rebirth of Design
by Peter Molyneux (22Cans)
Independent Games Summit

GDC 2014
From Players to Customers: Tracking Revenue with Google Analytics (Prese...
by Rahul Oak (Google)
Advocacy

GDC 2014
G.A.N.G. Demo Derby: Music
by Brian Schmidt (Ear Games)
Audio

GDC 2014
G.A.N.G. Demo Derby: Sound Design
by Brian Schmidt (Ear Games)
Audio

GDC 2014
G.A.N.G. Town Hall
by Brian Schmidt (Ear Games)
Audio

GDC 2014
Game Analytics (Presented by Amazon)
by Nate Wiger (Amazon Web Services)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Game Design Education 10+ Years In: Where to Take the Field from Here
by Katherine Isbister (NYU)
GDC Education Summit

GDC 2014
Game Discovery: Helping Players Find Our Games
by Aaron Isaksen (NYU Game Innovation Lab)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Game Educators Rant
by Sarah Schoemann (Different Games/Georgia Tech)
GDC Education Summit

GDC 2014
Game Security (Presented by Arxan Technologies)
by Rennie Allen (Arxan Technologies)
Production

GDC 2014
Games As A Service: How Free To Play Design Can Make Better Games (Prese...
by Oscar Clark (Stormlantern)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
GDC Microtalks 2014: One Hour, Ten Speakers, a Panoply of Game Thinking!
by Richard Lemarchand (USC)
Design

GDC 2014
GDC Visual Arts Board State of the Industry Discussion
by Jeff Hanna (Volition)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Generating Value Beyond the Game: What Opportunities Are You Missing? (P...
by David Eddings (Gearbox Software)
Monetization

GDC 2014
Getting Players to Care: Using Narrative to Drive Retention
by Kara Loo (Pixelberry Studios)
Design

GDC 2014
Getting the Most Out of OpenGL ES (Presented by ARM)
by Dave Shreiner (ARM)
Programming

GDC 2014
Going Indie: 10 Questions to Help You Decide if It's Right for You
by Don Daglow (Daglow Entertainment LLC)
Production

GDC 2014
Google Developer Day (Presented by Google)
by The YouTube Product Team (Google)
Programming

GDC 2014
Governance in F2P Multiplayer Games
by Daniel Cook (Spry Fox)
Free to Play Design & Business Summit

GDC 2014
Graphics Programming Education: Less Is More
by John Pile (Champlain College)
GDC Education Summit

GDC 2014
Grow Your Game Revenue with AdMob (Presented By Google)
by Russell Ketchum (Google)
Advocacy

GDC 2014
Growth Hacking with Play Games (Presented by Google)
by Greg Hartrell (Google)
Programming

GDC 2014
Hacking 3D Cities: The New CityEngine and its SDK (Presented by Esri)
by Pascal Mueller (Esri R&D Center Zurich)
Production

GDC 2014
Harmonix's Character Rigging Framework: Harmony
by David Hotniansky (Harmonix Music Systems)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Harnessing Your Players as a QA Resource: Benefits and Practice
by Jedrzej Czarnota (Manchester Business School)
QA Summit

GDC 2014
Hearthstone: 10 Bits of Design Wisdom
by Eric Dodds (Blizzard)
Design

GDC 2014
Hearts and Minds
by Frank Lantz (NYU Game Center)
Design

GDC 2014
Herding Cats Doesn't Begin to Describe It: Reflections on 20 Years of th...
by Ernest Adams (Independent)
Advocacy

GDC 2014
High Value Monetizers - Debunking Assumptions Using Personality Psychology
by Nick Yee (Ubisoft)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Hole in One: Big Wins and Large Learnings on Mini Golf MatchUp
by Travis Chen (Scopely)
Free to Play Design & Business Summit

GDC 2014
How an Indie Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Free-to-Play
by Arthur Humphrey (Last Day of Work)
Design

GDC 2014
How Industry Leaders Manage Fraud Risk to Create Revenue (Presented by D...
by Michael Halls (Digital River Inc.)
Monetization

GDC 2014
How Ski Safari Became a Chinese Hit
by Henry Fong (Yodo1)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit

GDC 2014
How to Be a Better Ally
by Brandii Grace (Versus Gaming Network)
Advocacy

GDC 2014
How to Become Fireproof: Surviving Internet Negativity
by Nika Harper (Independent)
Advocacy

GDC 2014
How to Build Nightly When There is No Night
by Josh Nixdorf (Electronic Arts)
Programming

GDC 2014
How to Create Hardcore, Realistic Shooter Audio with a Non-Hardcore Budget
by Lennie Moore (3l33t Music)
Production

GDC 2014
How to Depression-Proof Your Studio Culture
by Russ Pitts (Take This, Inc.)
Advocacy

GDC 2014
How to Subversively Queer Your Work
by Todd Harper (MIT Game Lab)
Advocacy

GDC 2014
How To Think: Critical Thinking and Analysis in Game Development Programs
by Mattie Brice (Independent)
GDC Education Summit

GDC 2014
How to Turn a New Leaf at the Animal Crossing
by Aya Kyogoku (Nintendo Co., Ltd.)
Design

GDC 2014
How We Survived Making Our First 3D Puzzle Game (Presented by Autodesk)
by Danielle Swank (Barking Mouse Studios)
Production

GDC 2014
IASIG 20th Anniversary with Legends of Game Audio Panel
by Brian Schmidt (Ear Games)
Audio

GDC 2014
IGDA Annual General Meeting
by Brian Schmidt (Ear Games)
Advocacy

GDC 2014
Immense Zombie Horde Variety and Slicing
by Burke Revet (Capcom Game Studios Vancouver)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Implementing Agile and Scrum in the Classroom
by Jeremy Gibson (University of Michigan Ann Arbor / ExNinja Interactive, LLC)
GDC Education Summit

GDC 2014
In-Game and Cinematic Lighting of The Last of Us
by Vivian Ding (Naughty Dog Inc.)
Visual Arts

GDC 2014
Indie Audio: Contracts, Compensation, Communication and Conceptualization
by Richard Ludlow (Hexany Audio)
Production

GDC 2014
Indie Game Public Relations: 5 Years of Painful Lessons
by Chris McQuinn (Drinkbox Studios)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Indie Games Localization: Is It Worth It?
by Belen Agullo Garcia (PINK NOISE)
Localization Summit

GDC 2014
Indie Soapbox
by Leigh Alexander (Gamasutra)
Independent Games Summit

GDC 2014
Indigenous Storytelling as Game Design and Narrative
by Elizabeth LaPensee (Independent)
Game Narrative Summit

GDC 2014
Infinity Blade: Creating the Mobile Blockbuster Trilogy
by Scott Stoddard (ChAIR Entertainment)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit

GDC 2014
Introducing Yahoo Games Network (Presented by Yahoo Games Network)
by Chris Benjaminsen (Yahoo Games)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
iOS Games in a Day: An iOS Game in an Hour
by Gareth Jenkins (36peas)
Programming

GDC 2014
iOS Games in a Day: Common iOS Game Features: How and Why
by Gareth Jenkins (36peas)
Programming

GDC 2014
iOS Games in a Day: Device Diversity and Performance Optimization (Unity...
by Gareth Jenkins (36peas)
Programming

GDC 2014
iOS Games in a Day: iOS Games Input Patterns and Practices
by Gareth Jenkins (36peas)
Programming

GDC 2014
iOS Games in a Day: Unity Crash Course for iOS Games
by Gareth Jenkins (36peas)
Programming

GDC 2014
Is Publishing Dead?
by Mitch Lasky (Benchmark)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Is Your Business Model Evil? The Moral Maze of the New Games Business
by Ben Cousins (Scattered Entertainment/DeNA)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
It's Not in the Writer's Manual: A Q&A Session for New Writers
by Jill Murray (Ubisoft)
Game Narrative Summit

GDC 2014
Jackpot Slots and Live-Ops: A Postmortem on How We Got to #1
by Alex Rosen (GREE International)
Production

GDC 2014
Jelly Splash: Puzzling Your Way to the Top of the App Store
by Florian Steinhoff (Wooga)
Free to Play Design & Business Summit

GDC 2014
Jiro Dreams of Game Design
by Brenda Romero (UC Santa Cruz)
Design

GDC 2014
Journey to the West: A Chinese Game Localization Primer
by Shaun Newcomer (Reality Squared Games)
Localization Summit

GDC 2014
Keeping a Community for Five Years: The Story of Day[9]TV
by Sean Plott (Artillery Games, Inc.)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Keys to Win in China (Presented by FL Mobile)
by Wang Yang (FL Mobile)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Kickstarting Your Company, Your Game and Your Community!
by Simon Strange (Sunstone Games, LLC)
Production

GDC 2014
Kids & Mobile: Monetizing in a Freemium World
by Nancy MacIntyre (Fingerprint)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit

GDC 2014
Killzone Shadow Fall: Creating Art Tools for a New Generation (Presented...
by Sander van der Steen (Guerrilla Games)
Production

GDC 2014
KingsRoad Design Postmortem: Transitioning from Retail to F2P Game Devel...
by John Yoo (Rumble Entertainment)
Design

GDC 2014
LAMS: Building a Localization Tool for Everyone
by Christopher Burgess (SCEE)
Localization Summit

GDC 2014
Landscape Creation and Rendering in REDengine 3
by Marcin Gollent (CD Projekt RED)
Programming

GDC 2014
Large Scale HTML5 Games on Desktop, Mobile & Tablets with KANO/APPS (Pre...
by Jesse Freeman (Amazon)
Business, Marketing & Management

GDC 2014
Leading Without Power, Directing Without Authority
by Epona Schweer (Indie Bits, 2and2)
Production

GDC 2014
Learn to Create Next-Generation Gaming Interfaces Using Common Senses an...
by Ryan Tabrah (Intel)
Advocacy

GDC 2014
Learning from Our Mistakes: A Postmortem of Guacamelee!
by Chris Harvey (DrinkBox Studios Inc.)
Production

GDC 2014
Lessons from Launching Plants vs. Zombies 2 in China
by Kun (Leo) Liu (Popcap)
Free to Play Design & Business Summit

GDC 2014
Lessons in Building Player Investment: Paper Dino's Save the Date
by Chris Cornell (Paper Dino Software)
Independent Games Summit

GDC 2014
Lessons Learned from a Decade of Audio Programming
by Guy Somberg (Telltale Games)
Programming

GDC 2014
Letting Go: Collaborating with Designers to Embrace AI Behaviors
by Brian Schwab (Formerly of Blizzard Entertainment)
AI Summit

GDC 2014
Level Design in a Day: Decisions That Matter - Meaningful Choice in Game...
by Matthias Worch (2K Games)
Production

GDC 2014
Level Design in a Day: How We Used Iterative Level Design to Ship Skyrim...
by Joel Burgess (Bethesda Softworks)
Production

GDC 2014
Level Design in a Day: Intro/A Series of First Steps - Overcoming the Di...
by Seth Marinello (Electronic Arts)
Production

GDC 2014
Level Design in a Day: Lunch and Mock Interviews
by Coray Seifert (2Dawn Games)
Production

GDC 2014
Level Design in a Day: The Importance of Everything: Analytics of Map De...
by Jim Brown (Epic Games)
Production

GDC 2014
Level Design in a Day: The Last of Us: Casting Shadows
by Elisabetta Silli (Naughty Dog)
Production

GDC 2014
Leveraging External Programming for Forza Motorsport 5
by Daniel Adent (Turn 10 Studios, Microsoft)
Production

GDC 2014
Lighting and Materials in Forza Motorsport 5
by Nick Sagall (Turn 10, Microsoft)
Programming

GDC 2014
Lighting Skylanders SWAP Force
by Sean Murphy (Vicarious Visions, Inc.)
Programming

GDC 2014
Localization Microtalks: Globetrotting in the Fast Lane
by Bill Black (Binari Sonori)
Localization Summit

GDC 2014
Localizing Games for Spanish Speaking Latin America
by Alejandro Gonzalez (Brainz)
Localization Summit

GDC 2014
Looking to the Future (Presented by Google)
by Noah Falstein (Google)
Advocacy

GDC 2014
Love/Hate Relationships: New Approaches to Game Romances
by Chris Dahlen (Freelance)
Game Narrative Summit

GDC 2014
Low-Level Shader Optimization for Next-Gen and DX11
by Emil Persson (Avalanche Studios)
Programming

GDC 2014
Mad Skillz for Directing Dialogue
by DB Cooper (DB Cooper VO, LLC)
Audio

GDC 2014
Make Things Worse: Enabling Setbacks for Consequential Play
by Patrick Redding (.)
Design

GDC 2014
Making 10000000
by Luca Redwood (EightyEight Games)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit

GDC 2014
Making Every Crash Count: Effective Mobile Game Testing
by Dave Santoro (Google)
QA Summit

GDC 2014
Making Money on Google Play: Best Practices in Monetization (Presented b...
by Bob Meese (Google)
Programming

GDC 2014
Making Storytelling a Fundamental Part of the Gameplay Experience
by Thomas Grip (Frictional Games)
Game Narrative Summit

GDC 2014
Making Your Score Sing
by Tom Salta (Persist Music)
Audio

GDC 2014
Managing Code Complexity in Asynchronous Distributed Server Architectures
by Karl Berg (Piranha Games)
Programming

GDC 2014

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