Game Developers Conference 2024
'Hogwarts Legacy': Evolving Your Design into AAA
by Kelly Murphy (Avalanche Software)
Production & Team Leadership  

Game Developers Conference 2024
A Ticket to Redemption: How CD PROJEKT RED Utilized Technical Support Da...
by Karolina Nieweglowska (CD PROJEKT RED)
Production & Team Leadership  

Game Developers Conference 2024
Accountability Matters! How Owlchemy Labs Leverages Ownership-First Prod...
by Andrew Eiche (Owlchemy Labs Inc)
Production & Team Leadership  

Game Developers Conference 2024
Agile Spikes in Game Dev: Getting to the Point
by Vikram Saran (Independent)
Production & Team Leadership  

Game Developers Conference 2023
"CODE RED!": How We Organized a Game Jam From Bomb Shelters
by Elena Lobova (GDBAY)
Production & Team Leadership  

Game Developers Conference 2023
'Overcrowded: Tycoon' Postmortem: A Tycoon with Emotions
by Jorge Rosado (Zeptolab)
Production & Team Leadership  

Game Developers Conference 2023
A New Era of Stereo 3D Gaming: Why and How (presented by Acer)
by Jim Chou (Acer)
Production & Team Leadership  

Game Developers Conference 2023
Career Progression and Value: Set Your Teams Up for Success
by Hannah Mackintosh (CerebralFix)
Production & Team Leadership  

Game Developers Conference 2022
'Blaseball': Game Development as Performance
by Gabe McGill (The Game Band)
Production & Team Management  

Game Developers Conference 2022
'SKYWEAVER': Learnings from Launching a Trading Card Game on Web3
by Philippe Castonguay (Horizon Blockchain Games)
Production & Team Management  

Game Developers Conference 2022
'Star Wars: Squadrons': A Blast from the Past
by Ian Frazier (EA Motive)
Production & Team Management  

Game Developers Conference 2022
1000 Hours of Difficulty: How 'Destiny' Builds Systemic Challenge
by Alan Blaine (Bungie)
Production & Team Management  

Game Developers Conference 2021
Better Live Game Releases with Persona Based Testing
by Nicholas Joebgen (Pocket Gems)
Production & Team Management  

Game Developers Conference 2021
Beyond Test Servers: How 'For Honor' Made Testing a Celebrated Player Ex...
by Laurent Chouinard (Ubisoft)
Production & Team Management  

Game Developers Conference 2021
Career Development Demystified: A Framework for Career Growth in Video G...
by Joshua Howard (Scopely)
Career & Studio Development  

Game Developers Conference 2021
Creating a Sustainable Volunteer Game Development Community
by Justin Chin (Gamevil)
Production & Team Management  

Summer 2020
Colorful Characters: Working with Different Personalities in Game Develo...
by Erin Reynolds (Flying Mollusk)
Production & Team Management  

Summer 2020
Diversify Your Kingdom: A Toolkit for More Women in Leadership
by Sabrina Carmona (King)
Production & Team Management  

Summer 2020
Forging 'Hardspace: Shipbreaker': Creating Processes for Original IPs
by Rory McGuire (Blackbird Interactive)
Production & Team Management  

Summer 2020
Game Devs WFH Microtalk: Deepening Awareness Amidst Transition: Collecti...
by Brandon R. Smith (Electronic Arts)
Production & Team Management  

GDC 2020
Production Essentials Summit: Intrinsically Motivated Teams: The Manager...
by Alexandre Moufarek (DeepMind)
Production Essentials Summit  

2019
(Super)Humans of New York: Managing the Many Faces in 'Marvel's Spider-Man'
by Noah Alzayer (Insomniac Games)
Production & Team Management  

2019
A Great Saga Needs Different Heroes: Unlocking Diversity's Potential
by Sabrina Carmona (King)
Production & Team Management  

2019
Balance of Power: F2P Game Design vs. Product Management
by Lucas Gonzalez (Independent)
Production & Team Management  

2019
Balancing Nightmares: An AI Approach to Balance Games with Overwhelming ...
by Kazuko Manabe (Square Enix Co., Ltd.)
Production & Team Management  

GDC 2018
'Horizon Zero Dawn': A QA Open World Case Study
by Ana Barbuta (Guerrilla Games)
Production & Team Management  

GDC 2018
Addressing Exploit Abuse in 'EVE Online' with Customer Care
by David Einarsson (CCP Games)
Production & Team Management  

GDC 2018
Adopting Continuous Delivery
by Jafar Soltani (Rare, Ltd.)
Production & Team Management  

GDC 2018
Audio Asset Management Tips and Tricks
by Richard Ludlow (Hexany Audio)
Production & Team Management  

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

GDC 2017
Achieving Two Worlds, Every Year: How 'Magic the Gathering' Sustainably ...
by Jeremy Jarvis (Wizards of the Coast)
Production & Team Management  

GDC 2017
Advanced Agile Game Development Practices
by Clinton Keith (Clinton Keith Consulting)
Production & Team Management  

GDC 2017
Better Development Through Science: How Aliens, Odysseus, and Toyota Can...
by Justin Fischer (Agency Principle, LLC)
Production & Team Management  

GDC Europe 2016
'HITMAN' Season 1: From Executive Producer to Showrunner
by Hannes Seifert (Io-Interactive)
Production  

GDC Europe 2016
'Project Discovery': How Citizen Science Got into 'EVE Online'
by Attila Szantner (MMOS Srl)
Production  

GDC Europe 2016
Conversion of a Different User: Bringing Teams to F2P
by Matthew Laurence (MegaZebra, GmbH)
Production  

GDC Europe 2016
How I Created a Top 50 App in 8 Weeks
by Troy Lonergan (Talony Games, Ltd.)
Production  

GDC 2016
'Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns'- Iterative MMO Development at Scale
by Sonya Wolfram (ArenaNet, Inc.)
Production  

GDC 2016
'World of Tanks': Disrupting the Console Space with F2P
by TJ Wagner (Wargaming)
Production  

GDC 2016
An End-to-End Approach to Physically Based Rendering
by Wes McDermott (ALLEGORITHMIC)
Production  

GDC 2016
Art of Blues and Bullets: Dominating 256 Shades of Grey
by Daniel Candil (A Crowd of Monsters)
Production  

GDC China 2015
"Rendering from Studying the Underlying Principles Brief Talk about Phy...
by Minjie Wu (Ubisoft Montreal)
Production  

GDC China 2015
"Rendering from Studying the Underlying Principles Brief Talk about Phy...
by Minjie Wu (Ubisoft Montreal)
Production - Chinese

GDC China 2015
A Real Story of Game Development
by Tiexin Liang (wanGa.me)
Production - Chinese

GDC China 2015
Fighting Aesthetics and Mobile Game Era's Combat Experience
by Yan Wu (FlashWingGames)
Production - Chinese

GDC Europe 2015
Adventures in English: The Challenges of Localizing Comedy
by Mark Estdale (OMUK)
Production  

GDC Europe 2015
Assassin's Creed Identity: Create a Benchmark Mobile Game!
by Tobias Tost (Blue Byte GmbH)
Production  

GDC Europe 2015
EPIC Lessons: An Angry Birds Epic Livecare Postmortem
by Hendrik Lesser (Remote Control Productions)
Production  

GDC Europe 2015
From Web to Mobile in the Kids Game Market
by Clark Stacey (WildWorks)
Production  

GDC 2015
Awesome Video Game Data (2015)
by Geoffrey Zatkin (EEDAR)
Production  

GDC 2015
Connecting Players and Franchise: A Compelling Solution to the Cross-Pla...
by Leah Shinkewski (BioWare)
Production  

GDC 2015
Deliberately Developmental Leadership
by Robin Hunicke (Funomena)
Production  

GDC 2015
Designing Your Design Team
by Richard Carrillo (Ubisoft Toronto, Inc.)
Production  

GDC Next 2014
Cross Platform MMORPGs - Syncing Web and Mobile for Seamless Gameplay
by Sudhir Krishnaswamy (JumpStart)
Production  

GDC Next 2014
Crowdsharing: Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing
by Starr Long (Portalarium)
Production  

GDC Next 2014
Game Audio - No Excuses
by Damian Kastbauer (PopCap)
Production  

GDC Next 2014
Games as a Service: Rebooting a 4-Year-Old Game to the Top of the Charts
by Ramine Darabiha (Halfbrick)
Production  

GDC China 2014
Business Model Design of Web Games
by Rety Chen (Mokylin Technology)
Production - Chinese

GDC China 2014
Darkblade: How a Small Team Making a Big Title
by Soulframe Soulframe (S-Game)
Production  

GDC China 2014
EA Sports UFC: The Fight for Believable Characters in Games
by Richard Burgess Richard Burgess Dawson (Electronic Arts Canada)
Production - Chinese

GDC China 2014
EA Sports UFC: The Fight for Believable Characters in Games
by Richard Burgess Richard Burgess Dawson (Electronic Arts Canada)
Production  

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

GDC Europe 2014
League of Legends: An Outsider's Analysis
by Teut Weidemann (Ubisoft Blue Byte)
Production  

GDC Europe 2014
Successfully Developing and Launching Games in China
by Samson Mow (Pixelmatic)
Production  

GDC Europe 2014
The Naked Nazi Zombie: Age Rating in Germany and the World
by Ruben Schwebe (USK)
Production  

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

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

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

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

GDC Europe 2013
Gamification in Software Testing and QA
by Robert Hoischen (Camshaft Software)
Production  

GDC Europe 2013
Switching Leadership Styles in Game Development Practice
by Stan Just (11 bit studios S.A.)
Production  

GDC 2013
From Product to Service: Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Went Live
by Scylla Costa (BioWare)
Production  

GDC 2013
From Product to Service: Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Went Live
by Scylla Costa (BioWare)
Production  

GDC 2013
Guerrilla UX: Benefits of In-House User Research
by Jordan Lynn (Volition)
Production  

GDC 2013
Kanban - How to Make Your Production Scream
by Clinton Keith (CK Consulting)
Production  

GDC Online 2012
Devops: Bringing Development and Operations Together for Better Everything
by Bryant Durrell (Independent)
Production  

GDC Online 2012
FarmVille's Golden Goose
by Mike Perry (Zynga)
Production  

GDC Online 2012
Management as Game Design: People are Players Not Pieces
by Joshua Howard (Microsoft Studios)
Production  

GDC Online 2012
Managing Multi-site Development Teams
by Bill McGehee (GameSim Technologies)
Production  

GDC Europe 2012
Mafia II Postmortem
by Jarek Kolar (2K Czech)
Production  

GDC Europe 2012
Postmortem: Sine Mora- The Struggle to Reboot a Genre
by Theodore Reiker (Prior Games Ltd.)
Production  

GDC Europe 2012
Postmortem: Sine Mora- The Struggle to Reboot a Genre
by Theodore Reiker (Prior Games Ltd.)
Production  

GDC Europe 2012
The Wonderful World of UX: How We Can Make Games that Resonate Better an...
by Simon Davis (Ubisoft Blue Byte)
Production  

GDC 2012
APB Reloaded: Design and Item Monetization Challenges When AAA Games Goe...
by Bjorn Book-Larsson (GamersFirst / Reloaded Productions Inc.)
Production  

GDC 2012
Are You a Manager or a Leader? Come Test Your Skills and Learn New Ones!
by Julie Craft (Heyzap)
Production  

GDC 2012
Arrrgghh!!! - Blending Quantitative and Qualitative Methods to Detect Pl...
by Janus Rau Sorensen (Crystal Dynamics / IO Interactive (Square Enix))
Production  

GDC 2012
Creative Panic: How Agility Turned Terror Into Triumph
by Lee Petty (Double Fine Productions)
Production  

GDC China 2012
Creative Panic: How Agility Turned Terror into Triumph
by Nathan Martz (Double Fine Productions)
Production - Chinese

GDC China 2012
Creative Panic: How Agility Turned Terror into Triumph
by Nathan Martz (Double Fine Productions)
Production  

GDC China 2012
Playtesting and Metrics: Getting the Most Out of Your Usability Testing
by Jordan Lynn (Volition)
Production  

GDC China 2012
Playtesting and Metrics: Getting the Most Out of Your Usability Testing
by Jordan Lynn (Volition)
Production - Chinese

GDC China 2011
Maximizing Risk: The Building of Bastion
by Amir Rao (Supergiant Games)
Production  

GDC China 2011
Maximizing Risk: The Building of Bastion
by Amir Rao (Supergiant Games)
Production - Chinese

GDC Online 2011
5 Things Core Designers Should Learn from Social Games
by Dan Fiden (Signia Venture)
Production  

GDC Online 2011
Career Development in a Box: Introducing a Freely Available Toolkit
by Joshua Howard (Microsoft)
Production  

GDC Online 2011
Data Driven: How Creating a Deeply Analytical Approach Drives Success
by Sheridan Hitchens (Kabam)
Production  

GDC Online 2011
Letting Go: Creating Self-Managed, Self-Directed Teams
by Travis George (Riot Games)
Production  

GDC Europe 2011
All Points Bulletin: Reloaded - When a $100 Million AAA Game Goes Free2Play
by Bjorn Book-Larsson (GamersFirst)
Production  

GDC Europe 2011
EGDF in GDCE 2011
by Malte Behrmann (European Games Developer Federation)
Production  

GDC Europe 2011
EGDF in GDCE 2011
by Malte Behrmann (European Games Developer Federation)
Production  

GDC Europe 2011
f2p Online Games: The Game Is Not Enough
by Teut Weidemann (Ubisoft/Bluebyte Germany)
Production  

GDC 2011
Experimenting Your Way to Learning and Success: Applying Lean Startup Pr...
by James Birchler (IMVU, Inc.)
Production  

GDC 2011
Faulty Thinking: Becoming a Better Producer by Understanding Faults in...
by Chuck Hoover (Schell Games)
Production  

GDC 2011
Making Game Trailers: Cost-effective Results for All Budgets
by Tim Roe (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
Production  

GDC 2011
Monster Teams: How One Producer Tamed the Beast and Lives to Tell About It
by Alex Parizeau (Ubisoft Toronto)
Production  

GDC Online 2010
AAA to Social Games -- Making the Leap
by Raph Koster (Playdom)
Production  

GDC Online 2010
Battle.net: A Postmortem
by Matthew Versluys (Blizzard Entertainment)
Production  

GDC Online 2010
LEAGUE OF LEGENDS Postmortem: One Year Later
by Marc Merrill (Riot Games, Inc.)
Production  

GDC Online 2010
Self-Inflicted Wounds: When We are Our Own Worst Enemy
by Joshua Howard (Independent)
Production  

GDC Europe 2010
A Challenging Production: Heavy Rain
by Charles Coutier (QUANTIC DREAM)
Production  

GDC Europe 2010
From J2ME to iOS: Galaxy on Fire 2 on the iPad and iPhone
by Marc Hehmeyer (FISHLABS Entertainment GmbH)
Production  

GDC Europe 2010
Global Agile Development: No Passport Required
by Adalsteinn (Alli) Ottarsson (CCP)
Production  

GDC Europe 2010
Going Online: Moving from Boxed Titles to F2P
by Ralf Adam (Gameforge Productions)
Production  

GDC 2010
Among Friends - An Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Post-Mortem
by Richard Lemarchand (Naughty Dog)
Production  

GDC 2010
Battlefield 1943 - My First Arcade Game
by Patrick Liu (DICE, EA)
Production  

GDC 2010
Battlefield 1943 - My First Arcade Game
by Patrick Liu (DICE, EA)
Production  

GDC 2010
Beyond Scrum: Agile Project Management for Games
by Clinton Keith (Clinton Keith Consulting)
Production  

GDC Austin/Online 2009
Developing in the Cloud
by Ben Garney (PushButton Labs)
Production  

GDC Austin/Online 2009
Lead with Your Gut: How Courage and Common Sense Improve Efficiency
by Edoardo De Martin (Next Level Games Inc.)
Production  

GDC Austin/Online 2009
Lean Production
by Clinton Keith (Clinton Keith Consulting)
Production  

GDC Austin/Online 2009
Sharing the Passion: Professional Mentoring and Talent Development
by Christian Bradley (Art Institute San Diego)
Production  

GDC Europe 2009
Ascending the CURSED MOUNTAIN - The Hollywood Model In Real Life
by Bob Bates (Bobbates.com)
Production  

GDC Europe 2009
Knights Of The Round Table: How Publishers Can Make their Developers Cre...
by Erik Simon (iES)
Production  

GDC Europe 2009
Specing out AAA Art Development: Know the Hell You're Getting Into!
by Stefan Baier (Streamline Studios B.V.)
Production  

GDC Europe 2009
What Is a Living Plan and How Can We Achieve It?
by Dorian Kieken (BioWare)
Production  

GDC Canada 2009
A Sound Approach to Audio Pre-production
by Alistair Hirst (OMNI Audio)
Concept/Pre-Production  

GDC Canada 2009
Advanced Scrum and Agile Success Stories
by Clinton Keith (Clinton Keith Consulting)
Production  

GDC Canada 2009
Creating Value
by Dan Rogers (Interactive Studio Management)
Production  

GDC Canada 2009
Shooting in San Vanelona: the Visuals of EA's Skate
by Colin Penty (EA Blackbox)
Production  

GDC 2009
10 Things Great Designers Exhibit
by Gordon Walton (Playdom Austin)
Production  

GDC 2009
Advanced Scrum and Agile Development
by Clinton Keith (Clinton Keith Consulting)
Production  

GDC 2009
Beyond Balancing: Using Five Elements of Failure Design to Enhance Playe...
by Jesper Juul (Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab)
Production  

GDC 2009
DEAD SPACE: How We Launched the Scariest New IP
by Chuck Beaver (Electronic Arts Redwood Shores)
Production  

GDC 2008
An Agile Retrospective
by Clinton Keith (Clinton Keith Consulting)
Production  

GDC 2008
How to Break All Rules and yet Make a 90+ Game
by Petter Sydow (Massive Entertain...)
Production  

GDC 2008
Outsourcing: Best Practices at Pandemic Studios
by Carey Chico (GlobeX Studios LA Inc)
Production  

GDC 2008
Rethinking Game Localization as Global Game Development Sponsored by Loc...
by Kate Edwards (Englobe)
Production  

GDC 2007
Agile Game Development
by Clinton Keith (Clinton Keith Consulting)
Production  

GDC 2007
Bend Microsoft Project to Your Will
by Mike McShaffry (Red Fly Studio)
Production  

GDC 2007
Console Wars: Issues for the First Two Years of Next-gen
by Don Daglow (Don Daglow Interactive Entertainment)
Production  

GDC 2007
From the Frontline of Outsourcing: The Lessons Never End
by Kristine Coco (ngmoco:))
Production  

GDC 2006
Beyond Technology: Process Issues in Next Gen Development
by Don Daglow (Don Daglow Interactive Entertainment)
Production  

GDC 2006
Creating a Global MMO: Balancing Cultures and Platforms in Final Fantasy XI
by Sage Sundi (Square Enix)
Production  

GDC 2006
Extensible Rendering and Previsualization of Art
by Daniel Horowitz (NVIDIA)
Production  

GDC 2006
Half Weasel, Half Otter, All Trouble: a Postmortem of Daxter for the Son...
by Rachid El Guerrab (Rush Tech)
Production  

GDC 2004
Accurate Prediction and Other Organizational Myths
by Starr Long  
Production  

GDC 2004
Artist Management in a Small Games Company

Production  

GDC 2004
Building Big Licensed Games with Big Teams
by Don Daglow (Daglow Entertainment LLC)
Production  

GDC 2004
Growing a Dedicated Tools Programming Team: From Baldur's Gate to S...

Production