GDC 2015
#1ReasonToBe
by Brenda Romero (UC Santa Cruz/Romero Games)
Advocacy  

GDC 2015
15th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards

Special Event  

GDC 2015
15th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards

Special Event  

GDC 2015
17th Annual Independent Games Festival Awards

Special Event  

GDC 2015
3 Monetization Metrics to Track Every Single Day (Presented by Chartboost)
by Chung-Man Tam (Chartboost)
Monetization  

GDC 2015
5 Best Practices for Cost-Efficient User Acquisition (Presented by Chart...
by Pepe Agell (Chartboost)
Monetization  

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 Live Art Demonstration of Creating Worlds through Design Thinking
by Feng Zhu (Feng Zhu Design)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
A New R&D Process for Game Design
by James Taylor (Game Changer Chicago Design Lab - University of Chicago)
Game Career Seminar  

GDC 2015
A Thousand Voices: Open Game Development
by Chris Avellone (Obsidian Entertainment)
Design  

GDC 2015
A View from the White House: Games Beyond Entertainment
by Mark DeLoura (White House Office of Science & Technology Policy)
Advocacy  

GDC 2015
A Year of Constraints: How Limitations Improved My Development Process
by Adriel Wallick (MsMinotaur)
Independent Games Summit  

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

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

GDC 2015
Advanced Visual Effects for 2D Games
by Viktor Lidholt (Apportable)
Visual Arts  

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

GDC 2015
Advanced Visual Effects With DirectX 11 & 12: Precomputed Realtime Globa...
by Kuba Cupisz (Unity)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Advanced Visual Effects With DirectX 11 & 12: Sparse Fluid Simulation an...
by Jon Story (NVIDIA)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Advanced Visual Effects With DirectX 11 & 12: Visual Effects in Star Cit...
by Alistair Brown (Cloud Imperium)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Advanced Visual Effects With DirectX 11 & 12: Welcome/Getting the Most O...
by Nicolas Thibieroz (AMD)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Advanced VR Rendering
by Alex Vlachos (Valve)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Adventures in Storytelling: Telling the World's Stories Through Games
by Sean Vesce (E-Line Media)
Design  

GDC 2015
Adventures in Text: Innovating in Interactive Fiction
by Jon Ingold (inkle)
Design  

GDC 2015
Against the Burning Hells: Diablo III's Road to Redemption with Reaper o...
by Joshua Mosqueira (Blizzard Entertainment)
Design  

GDC 2015
AI Based Game Design
by Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari (Otter Play)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2015
AI in the Awesomepocalypse - Creating the Enemies of Sunset Overdrive
by Adam Noonchester (Insomniac Games)
Design  

GDC 2015
All Style, All Substance: The Audio Journey of the Vanity and Traversal ...
by Kristen Quebe (Microsoft)
Audio  

GDC 2015
An Overview of the Amazon Devices and Services for Game Developers (Pres...
by David Isbitski (Amazon)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Analytics 101
by Dmitri Williams (Ninja Metrics)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Analytics 201
by Dmitri Williams (Ninja Metrics)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Analyzing the Steam Marketplace Using Publicly Derived Sales Estimates
by Kyle Orland (Ars Technica)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Android Dev-Diaries with EA Firemonkeys and TickTock Games (Presented by...
by Daniel Horowitz (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Animation Bootcamp: Introduction & Live 2D Animation Demo
by Tim Borrelli (5th Cell)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Animation Bootcamp: Locomotion of Sunset Overdrive
by Elliot Grossman (Insomniac)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Animation Bootcamp: Refining A Mechanic's Personality
by Mike Bithell (Mike Bithell Games)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Animation Bootcamp: The Animation Process of Ori
by James Benson (Campo Santo)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Animation Bootcamp: The Missing Link - Technical Designers in Animation
by Jami Jeffcoat (Bungie)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Animation Bootcamp: UFC Animation System
by Lee Dowsett (EA)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Animation Bootcamp: Women Are Not Too Hard to Animate
by Tim Borrelli (5th Cell)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Animation Style and Process for Broken Age
by Raymond Crook (Double Fine Production)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Anti-Social Behavior in Games: How Can Game Design Help?
by Ben Lewis-Evans (Player Research)
Design  

GDC 2015
Applying Machine Learning Like a Responsible Adult
by Ben Sunshine-Hill (Havok)
AI Summit  

GDC 2015
Art Direction Bootcamp : 7 Habits of Highly Effective Art Directors
by Ben Thompson (Blizzard Entertainment)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Art Direction Bootcamp : Demystifying Art Direction
by Keith Self-Ballard (Volition)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Art Direction Bootcamp : How I Learned to Love Procedural Art
by Grant Duncan (Hello Games)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Art Direction Bootcamp : Technical Art Direction
by Steve Theodore (Undead Labs)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Art Direction Bootcamp: Cinematography for Art Directors
by Robh Ruppel (Naughty Dog)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Art Direction Bootcamp: Concept Art is Dead
by Shaddy Saffadi (One Pixel Brush)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Art Direction Bootcamp: How Being Different Makes All The Difference
by Alessandro Taini (Ninja Theory)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Art Direction Bootcamp: The Art & Inspiration of Dragon Age: Inquisition
by Neil Thompson (BioWare)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Audio Bootcamp : Advanced Composition Techniques for Adaptive Systems
by Winifred Phillips (Generations Productions LLC)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Audio Bootcamp : Audio Gigs: How to Find, Get, and Keep them Coming
by Richard Ludlow (Hexany Audio)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Audio Bootcamp : Dialogue 101
by Michael Csurics (The Brightskull Entertainment Group)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Audio Bootcamp : Dj vu All Over Again? What We Can Learn from "Classic" ...
by Peter McConnell (Little Big Note Music)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Audio Bootcamp : Introduction (10-10:10am)/Sound Design the Bungie Way: ...
by Damian Kastbauer (PopCap Games)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Audio Bootcamp : Technical Sound Design
by Mark Kilborn (Raven Software)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Audio Bootcamp : The Sounds of Year Walk and DEVICE 6
by Daniel Olsen (Independent)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Audio Bootcamp: State of the Industry: GameSoundCon Audio Survey Review
by Brian Schmidt (Brian Schmidt Studios)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Audio Tips for Public Betas, Alphas and Early Access
by Matthew Marteinsson (Klei Entertainment)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Automated Testing and Instant Replays in Retro City Rampage
by Brian Provinciano (Vblank Entertainment)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Awesome Video Game Data (2015)
by Geoffrey Zatkin (EEDAR)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Balancing Community Management With Transparent Development
by Tony Jones (Daybreak Game Company)
Community Management Summit  

GDC 2015
Believable Humans
by Michael Mumbauer (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Best Practices for Small Studios: Outmaneuver Your Competition
by Tobiah Marks (Microsoft)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Beyond Binary Choices: How Players Engage with Morality
by Amanda Lange (Microsoft)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2015
BioShock Infinite: Scoring in the Sky, a Postmortem
by Garry Schyman (Garry Schyman Productions)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Blurring Separation Between Concept and Production on Halo 2 Anniversary
by Michael Pavlovich (Certain Affinity)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Boxes and Breakthroughs: Lessons Learned from "Publishing" Student Games
by Jesse Vigil (Psychic Bunny)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2015
Breakaway: A Narrative Game's Success at Addressing Gender-Based Violence
by Ann DeMarle (Champlain College)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2015
Breaking Into Asia
by Chris Akhavan (Glu Mobile)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2015
Breathing Mysteries: A Narrative Approach to Spirituality in Video Games
by David Calvo (Ankama)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2015
Brighter and Faster Graphics with NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 4....
by Jeffrey Kiel (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Bringing AAA Franchises to NVIDIA SHIELD, Round-Table, and Postmortem (P...
by Rev Lebaredian (NVIDIA)
Design  

GDC 2015
Bringing Console Development to Mobile: Lessons From My Cross-Platform T...
by Ben Liu (Pocket Gems)
Advocacy  

GDC 2015
Build and Deploy Your Mobile Game with AWS (Presented by Amazon)
by Dhruv Thukral (Amazon)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Building a Better Centaur: AI at Massive Scale
by Dave Mark (Intrinsic Algorithm)
AI Summit  

GDC 2015
Building a Manifesto for Game Accessibility
by Thomas Westin (Stockholm University)
Advocacy  

GDC 2015
Building a Recommendation System for EverQuest Landmark's Marketplace
by Ben Weber (Daybreak Game Company)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Building a Sport: The Design Philosophy of League of Legends
by Ryan Scott (Riot Games)
eSports Summit  

GDC 2015
Building Fear in Alien: Isolation
by Alistair Hope (Creative Assembly)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Capitalizing Your Digital Entertainment Startup
by Matthew Le Merle (Fifth Era)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Capturing The Last of Us: Motion Capture Pipeline
by Damon Shelton (Naughty Dog)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Carrying Through College: The Current Climate of Collegiate eSports
by Jesse Sell (MIT)
eSports Summit  

GDC 2015
Challenges and Strategies for Hosting Massive Independent eSports Events
by James Lampkin (ESL)
eSports Summit  

GDC 2015
Cinematic Games Are Dead! Long Live Cinematic Games!
by Matthew Weise (Fiction Control)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2015
Clash of Clans: Designing Games That People Will Play For Years
by Jonas Collaros (Supercell)
Design  

GDC 2015
Classic Game Postmortem: Adventure
by Warren Robinett (Independent)
Design  

GDC 2015
Classic Game Postmortem: Loom
by Brian Moriarty (WPI)
Design  

GDC 2015
Classic Game Postmortem: Star Control
by Paul Reiche III (Toys For Bob)
Design  

GDC 2015
Classic Game Postmortem: Yars' Revenge
by Howard Scott Warshaw (Independent)
Design  

GDC 2015
Cloud Gaming and NVIDIA GRID (Presented by NVIDIA)
by Eric Young (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Code Clinic 2015: How to Write Code the Compiler Can Actually Optimize
by Mike Acton (Insomniac Games, Inc)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Comedy Games: An Underexplored Genre
by Zoe Quinn (The Quinnspiracy)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2015
Community Level Design for Competitive CS:GO
by Shawn Snelling (Independent)
eSports Summit  

GDC 2015
Composing for Games: Mastering the Creative Process
by Tom Salta (Persist Music)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Computers Are Terrible Storytellers - Let's Give the Humans a Shot
by Stephen Hood (Storium)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2015
Confronting Our "Audio Nemesis" in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor: Maxim...
by Brian Pamintuan (Monolith Productions/WB Games)
Audio  

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

GDC 2015
Connecting with Your Customers - Building Successful Mobile Games throug...
by Nate Wiger (Amazon)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Constructing the Catacombs - Procedural Architecture for Platformers
by Tyriq Plummer (FourbitFriday)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Content Optimization Pipeline for an Open World Game
by Martin Thorzen (CD Projekt RED)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Continuous Testing
by Lance Hitchcock (ArenaNet)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Controlling Carnage: Effective Side-Scroller Controls on Mobile
by Kayla Kinnunen (Roadhouse Interactive)
Design  

GDC 2015
Creating an Interactive Musical Experience for Fantasia: Music Evolved
by Jeff Allen (Harmonix Music Systems)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Creating Hyper-Adaptive Music on an Indie Budget
by C. Andrew Rohrmann (scntfc / 17-Bit)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Creating Safe Spaces at Game Events
by Bonnie Ruberg (University of California, Berkeley)
Advocacy  

GDC 2015
Creating Successful Game Marketing Campaigns from Your Analytics
by Neil McClarty (Jagex Games Studio)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Creating Truly Scalable Game Engines - Console to Mobile (Presented by I...
by Josh Adams (Epic Games)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Creative Chaos: Teaching Project Teams to Be Innovative
by Drew Davidson (Carnegie Mellon)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2015
Creative Corner-Cutting: Tower of Guns Postmortem
by Joe Mirabello (Terrible Posture Games)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Crossy Road: A Whale of a Time
by Matt Hall (Hipster Whale)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2015
Curiosity, Courage and Camouflage: Revealing the Gaming Habits of Teen G...
by Ashly Burch (Hey Ash LLC)
Advocacy  

GDC 2015
Cutting Edge Graphics for Android (Presented by NVIDIA)
by Mathias Schott (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Dedicated Prototyping for Mobile Game Development
by Tom Blind (Backflip Studios)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Deep Gabe: Machine Learning from Steam Data
by Alex Champandard (AiGameDev.com)
AI Summit  

GDC 2015
Defining "New" for the Time-Honored Experience of Words with Friends
by Whitney Taylor (Zynga)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Deliberately Developmental Leadership
by Robin Hunicke (Funomena)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Deploying a Low-Latency Multiplayer Game Globally: Loadout (Presented by...
by Nate Wiger (Amazon)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Design by Constraints: Hitman GO Design Postmortem
by Daniel Lutz (Square Enix Montral)
Design  

GDC 2015
Designing a Multiplayer Battle Online Arena (MOBA) for the Tablet
by Stephan Sherman (super evil megacorp)
Design  

GDC 2015
Designing CounterSpy: A Journey From Games to Pixar to Games
by Mark Holmes (Dynamighty)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Designing for Empathy with Sensory Replication in D4
by Hidetaka 'SWERY' Suehiro (Access Games)
Design  

GDC 2015
Designing for Exploration and Choice in Firewatch
by Nels Anderson (Klei Entertainment)
Design  

GDC 2015
Designing for Mobile VR in Dead Secret
by Chris Pruett (Robot Invader/ Oculus)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Designing Mobile Games That Actually Get Kids Mobile
by Nis Bojin, Ph.D. (Zeros 2 Heroes Media)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Designing Morally Difficult Characters, Responsibly
by Dan Nagler (Gigantic Mechanic)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2015
Designing Procedural Stealth for Invisible Inc.
by James Lantz (Klei Entertainment)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Designing with Physics: Bend the Physics Engine to Your Will
by Bennett Foddy (NYU Game Center)
Independent Games Summit  

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

GDC 2015
Desire Is Not a Dirty Word: Writing Healthy Fanservice in Games
by Michelle Clough (Freelance)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2015
Destiny's Multithreaded Rendering Architecture
by Natalya Tatarchuk (Bungie)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Dev Studio 2.0: Paid to Learn
by Amy Adkins (University of Utah- Entertainment Arts and Engineering)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2015
Developing Games for NVIDIA GRID (Presented by NVIDIA)
by Eric Young (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Developing the Fantasy of a Character through Illustrations
by Andrew Silver (Riot Games)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Dialog Systems in Double Fine Games
by Anna Kipnis (Double Fine Productions)
Design  

GDC 2015
Did We Fail? The Weird Success Story of Beatbuddy
by Wolf Lang (THREAKS)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Diversity Advocacy Workshop
by Tim Borrelli (5th Cell)
Advocacy  

GDC 2015
Divinity: Original Sin Postmortem- Success Stories and Lessons Learned
by Swen Vincke (Larian Studios)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Do Artists Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Grant Duncan (Hello Games)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Do Game Developers Want a Union?
by Johanna Weststar (Western University)
Advocacy  

GDC 2015
Doing Business in Europe: EU Regulations and Public Relations
by Andreas Lober (Beiten Burkhardt)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2015
Don't Be Afraid of Incentivized Ads!
by Volkan Ediz (GREE)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2015
Don't Call Them Whales: F2P Spenders and Virtual Value
by Emily Greer (Kongregate)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Don't Just Dream It, Do It: Disney Infinity 2.0 Postmortem
by John Vignocchi (Disney Interactive)
Production  

GDC 2015
Drawing Inside The Lines: Art With Constraints
by Randy OConnor (Independent)
Game Career Seminar  

GDC 2015
Education in Gaming: Narrative as a Tool for Fostering Engagement
by Jennifer Young (Pixelberry Studios)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Education Soapbox
by Lindsay Grace (American University)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2015
Effective LiveOps Strategies
by James Gwertzman (PlayFab)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2015
Efficiency for Game Designers: Lessons Learned Making Gunpoint Quickly W...
by Tom Francis (Suspicious Developments)
Design  

GDC 2015
Efficient Rendering with DirectX12 on Intel Graphics (Presented by Intel)
by Andrew Lauritzen (Intel Corp.)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Embedded Game Journalism: Building Transparency and Trust with the Press...
by Jeff Pobst (Hidden Path Entertainment)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Embedding a Videogame Museum in a University Curriculum
by Roberto Dillon (James Cook University)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2015
Embracing PBR with Substance: The AAA Studios' Best Kept Secret (Present...
by Jason Brackman (Relic Entertainment)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Embracing the Paradigm Shift: Converting a Premium Team to an (Enthusias...
by Damion Schubert (Boss Fight Entertainment)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2015
Embracing your Narrative Nemesis - Cinematic Storytelling in Middle-eart...
by Ethan Walker (Monolith Productions / WB Games)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2015
Encouraging Engagement in Large and Extra, Extra Large Courses
by Sean Gouglas (University of Alberta)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2015
Enhancing Your Unity Mobile Games (Presented by ARM)
by Roberto Lopez Mendez (ARM)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Environmental Audio and Processing for VR
by Nicholas Ward-Foxton (Sony Computer Entertainment)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Epic Fail Microtalks: Four Mobile Games, Four Flops and Tons of Lessons ...
by Ken Seto (Massive Damage, Inc.)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Equip Your Robot Army! How Telltale Integrated Simplygon into Their Auto...
by Zac Litton (Telltale Games)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Everything You Need To Know About YouTubers But Were Afraid To Ask
by Alex "Baer" Larrabee (YouTube Personality, Twitch Broadcaster)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Evolving Plague Inc: Taking a Top Mobile Game to Steam
by James Vaughan (Ndemic Creations)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Evolving Serious Games: The Confluence of Cognitive Computing and Gamepl...
by Phaedra Boinodiris (IBM)
Design  

GDC 2015
Evolving Serious Games: The Confluence of Cognitive Computing and Gamepl...
by Phaedra Boinodiris (IBM)
Design  

GDC 2015
Experimental Gameplay Workshop
by Vi Hart (Independent)
Design  

GDC 2015
Exploding the Box: Thinking Differently in the A + B Era
by Drew Murray (Insomniac Games)
Design  

GDC 2015
F2P and Cross-Platform: How Top Eleven Became the World's Most Played Sp...
by Tomislav Mihajlovic (Nordeus)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2015
F2P Comes to Consoles
by Frank Cartwright (Reloaded Games Inc.)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2015
Faerie Dust and Sparkles: Bringing Your AI Characters to Life
by Kevin Dill (Lockheed Martin)
AI Summit  

GDC 2015
Failure Workshop
by Adam Saltsman (Finji)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Far Cry 4, Assassin's Creed Unity and War Thunder: Spicing Up PC Graphic...
by Anton Yudintsev (Gaijin Entertainment)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Far Cry 4: Gameplay Team Workflow, Iteration and Philosophy
by Marc Andre Saulnier (Ubisoft Montreal)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Fast Iteration for Far Cry 4 - Optimizing Key Parts of the Dunia Pipeline
by Remi Quenin (Ubisoft Montreal)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Featured on the App Stores - An Indie Guide
by Tom Kinniburgh (Game Analytics)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2015
FEED ME! Managing Information Overload
by Taina Berardi (Daybreak Games)
Community Management Summit  

GDC 2015
Finding Balance: Realizing Responsive High Fidelity Character Movement i...
by Jeet Shroff (Avalanche Studios)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Five Things You Can Do Today to Be a Bit More Agile
by Nathalie Goh-Livorness (Microsoft)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Flash Forward
by Nathalie Goh-Livorness (Microsoft)
Special Event  

GDC 2015
Flutter Postmortem: Cultivating a Niche for F2P Success
by Tim Nixon (Runaway)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2015
Forced-Based Anticipatory Collision Avoidance in Crowd Simulations
by Stephen Guy (University of Minnesota)
AI Summit  

GDC 2015
Free to Play vs. Premium: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
by Amy Dallas (ClutchPlay Games LLC)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Free Your Management Mind, a Successful Community Team Will Follow
by Chloe Swain (Lionbridge Game Services)
Community Management Summit  

GDC 2015
From 58 to 81: The Mighty Comeback of Gazillion's Marvel Heroes 2015
by David Brevik (Gazillion Entertainment)
Design  

GDC 2015
From Jem to CastleVille - A "Truly Outrageous" Game Narrative Postmortem
by Christy Marx (Zynga)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2015
From Student To Designer/Writer: Real Talk
by Katie Chironis (Her Interactive)
Game Career Seminar  

GDC 2015
Frostbite: Implementing a Scripting Solution for Your Editor
by Matthew Doell (Electronic Arts)
Programming  

GDC 2015
G.A.N.G. Demo Derby: Interactive
by Brian Schmidt (Brian Schmidt Studios)
Audio  

GDC 2015
G.A.N.G. Demo Derby: Music
by Laura Karpman (Laura Karpman Music)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Galak-Z: Forever: Building Space-Dungeons Organically
by Zach Aikman (17-Bit)
Advocacy  

GDC 2015
game < design
by Stone Librande (Riot Games)
Design  

GDC 2015
Game Design Case Studies - One Designer | One Game | One System
by Eric Zimmerman (NYU Game Center)
Design  

GDC 2015
Game Developer Harassment: How To Get Through
by Elizabeth Sampat (Optical Binary)
Advocacy  

GDC 2015
Game Studio Management: Making It Great
by Jesse Schell (Schell Games LLC)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Games-as-a-Service: Rebooting a 4-Year-Old Game to the Top Charts
by Ramine Darabiha (Halfbrick)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Gaming Against Violence: Effectiveness of Video Games for Abuse Prevention
by Drew Crecente (Jennifer Ann's Group)
Advocacy  

GDC 2015
Gaming the Laws of War: Can Real Consequences Mean Real Fun?
by Daniel Greenberg (Media Rez LLC)
Design  

GDC 2015
GDC Microtalks 2015: One Hour, Ten Speakers, Games and Play, and Us
by Richard Lemarchand (Naughty Dog)
Design  

GDC 2015
Get Ready for Launch: How AAA Titles Do It
by Ashley Bennett (Electronic Arts)
Production  

GDC 2015
Get Your Game On with GitHub (Presented by GitHub)
by Danish Khan (GitHub)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Getting Buy-In: How to Give Your Game Audio Style
by Joanna Orland (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Getting off the NavMesh: Navigating in Fully 3D Environments
by Dan Brewer (Digital Extremes)
AI Summit  

GDC 2015
glNext: The Future of High Performance Graphics (Presented by Valve)
by Dan Baker (Oxide Games)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Goal-Oriented Action Planning: Ten Years Old and No Fear!
by Chris Conway (Crystal Dynamics)
AI Summit  

GDC 2015
Going Indie: 10 Questions to Help You Decide if It's Right for You
by Don Daglow (Daglow Entertainment LLC)
Game Career Seminar  

GDC 2015
Going It Alone: Cross-Platform Mobile C++ Myths Debunked
by Jon Sharkey (Google)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Gravity Ghost: A Postmortem
by Erin Robinson (Ivy Games)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Great Looking Graphics on Modern PowerVR GPUs (Presented by Imagination ...
by Rys Sommefeldt (Imagination Technologies)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Great Management of Technical Leads
by Mike Acton (Insomniac Games, Inc)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Greg Zeschuk Talks Playgrounds and Why You Should Care (Presented by Biba)
by Greg Zeschuk (BioWare)
Design  

GDC 2015
Grounding Wildlife in the Mountains of Far Cry 4
by Julien Pelletier (Ubisoft)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Growing Pains: Taking a Studio from 0-60
by Chelsea Blasko (Iron Galaxy Studios, LLC)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Growing the Participation of Women in eSports
by Lil Chen (TED)
eSports Summit  

GDC 2015
GuiltyGearXrd's Art Style : The X Factor Between 2D and 3D
by Junya Christopher Motomura (Arc System Works)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Hack Discovery: Facebook for Mobile Games (Presented by Facebook)
by Dan Morris (Facebook)
Design  

GDC 2015
Harnessing the Power of Player-Generated Content on Mobile
by Cass Phillipps (Pocket Gems)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Harvesting Interactive Fiction
by Heather Albano (Choice of Games LLC)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2015
Hearthstone: How to Create an Immersive User Interface
by Derek Sakamoto (Blizzard Entertainment)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Hermes: Extensible REST and RPC Communication for Games Features
by Andrew McVeigh (Riot Games)
Programming  

GDC 2015
High-Performance Game Engines with NVIDIA SHIELD (Presented by NVIDIA)
by Niklas Smedberg (Epic Games)
Design  

GDC 2015
High-Performance Game Engines with NVIDIA SHIELD (Presented by NVIDIA)
by Niklas Smedberg (Epic Games)
Design  

GDC 2015
HigherEdGames: Elevating the Conversation on Games
by Tracy Fullerton (USC Games)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2015
Hiring for Hopeless Perfectionists
by Sunni Pavlovic (thatgamecompany)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
History-Shaping Design: Tales Told by Early American Board Games
by Julia Keren Detar (Untame)
Design  

GDC 2015
Hohokum: Adventures in Music and Sound Design
by David Collins (SCEA)
Audio  

GDC 2015
How a Group of Academics Came Together to Improve Ireland's Institutions...
by Brenda Romero (UC Santa Cruz/Romero Games)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2015
How FIFA Delivers Live Content to Users Fast
by Gurdarshan Dhillon (Electronic Arts)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
How Game Developers Reach New Customers with Twitch (Presented by Amazon)
by Marcus Graham (Twitch)
Programming  

GDC 2015
How GAMEVIL Transitioned from Premium Apps to Freemium Service
by Han Sol Junger (GAMEVIL USA)
Production  

GDC 2015
How Stories Create Real Experiences: Ingress as a Narrative Platform
by John Hanke (Google)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2015
How to Choose the Best Typographic System for Your Global Game
by Terrance Weinzierl (Monotype)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
How to Evolve Players into Fans (Presented by Amazon)
by Peter Heinrich (Amazon)
Programming  

GDC 2015
How to Implement AAA Game UI in HTML and JavaScript
by Yee Cheng Chin (Electronic Arts/Maxis)
Programming  

GDC 2015
How to Make and Self-Publish a Game in 12 Months
by Matthew Viglione (SomaSim)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
How to Make Your Game Just Completely Hilarious: The Stanley Parable
by William Pugh (Roberts & Co Bunsen Outlet Limited)
Design  

GDC 2015
How to Optimize Your Mobile Game with ARM Tools and Practical Examples (...
by Lorenzo Dal Col (ARM)
Programming  

GDC 2015
How to Protect Your Game's Code With Fuzzing
by Dave Weinstein (Hewlett-Packard)
Programming  

GDC 2015
How We Made a Game No Fun (Presented by Amazon)
by Mike Hines (Amazon)
Programming  

GDC 2015
How YouTubers and Twitch Streamers Can Help Sell Your Games
by Mike Rose (tinyBuild Games)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Idle Games: The Mechanics and Monetization of Self-Playing Games
by Anthony Pecorella (Kongregate)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2015
Igniting the Shared Experience with Cinematics in Assassin's Creed Unity
by David Footman (Ubisoft)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
In It for the Long Hall: How Wooga Boosts Long-Term Retention
by Sebastian Nussbaum (Wooga GmbH)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2015
In the Hearts of Players: Affection Games and Mobile Love
by Lindsay Grace (American University)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2015
In Your Hands: The Character (of Watch_Dogs)
by David Therriault (Ubisoft Montreal)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Increasing Gender Diversity in Game Development Programs
by Clara Fernandez Vara (NYU Game Center)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2015
Indie Development & The Economy of Favors
by Theresa Duringer (Turtle Sandbox)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Indie Marketing
by Justin Woodward (Interabang Entertainment)
Game Career Seminar  

GDC 2015
Indie Polish: Making the Most of the Last 10%
by Mike Bithell (Mike Bithell Games)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Indie Publishing: A Whole New World
by Adam Saltsman (Finji)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Indie Scrub Life: Make Publishers Pay You to Do Whatever You Want
by Brandon Sheffield (Necrosoft Games)
Game Career Seminar  

GDC 2015
Indie Soapbox
by Mike Bithell (Mike Bithell Games)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Infinite Play
by Richard Lemarchand (USC)
Design  

GDC 2015
Innovations in The Sims 4 Character Creator
by Sri Nair (Electronic Arts)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Inspiring Player Creativity in Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved
by Jonathan Mintz (Harmonix Music Systems)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Installation Games: Creating Games for Dynamic Social Environments
by Syed Salahuddin (Babycastles)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Interior Design and Environment Art: Mastering Space, Mastering Place
by Dan Cox (Ubisoft Toronto)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Internships- Bridging the Gap from Education to Industry
by Caitlin Goodale (Microsoft)
Game Career Seminar  

GDC 2015
Interpreting Games for an Audience with Twitch.tv
by Bobby Schweizer (Georgia Institute of Technology)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2015
It's Not in the Writer's Manual: A Q&A Session for New Writers
by Richard Rouse III (Paranoid Productions)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2015
JPS+: Over 100x Faster than A*
by Steve Rabin (DigiPen Institute of Technology)
AI Summit  

GDC 2015
Keep Grooving: Life Musings & Live Musics
by Teddy Diefenbach (Heart Machine)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Keep the Game Running: A Modern Asset Pipeline (Presented by Simplygon a...
by Samuel Rantaeskola (Simplygon)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Killer Portfolio or Portfolio Killer: Part 1 - Advice from Industry Artists
by Steve Scott (Bungie)
Game Career Seminar  

GDC 2015
Landing Your First Game and Building a Career
by Kole Hicks (Kole Audio Solutions)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Leading High Performance Teams
by Madelaine Beermann (Ubisoft)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Leading Players Astray: 80 Days & Unexpected Stories
by Meg Jayanth (Freelance)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Legal Issues in Competitive Gaming
by David Graham (DPG at Law)
eSports Summit  

GDC 2015
Less is More: Designing Awesome AI
by Kimberly Voll (Zany T Games)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Lessons from the Core Engine Architecture of Destiny
by Chris Butcher (Bungie)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Level Design in a Day: How Modding Made Bethesda Better
by Joel Burgess (Bethesda Game Studios)
Design  

GDC 2015
Level Design in a Day: Level Design Histories and Futures
by Robert Yang (Parsons / NYU)
Production  

GDC 2015
Level Design in a Day: Procedural Level Design in Eldritch
by David Pittman (Minor Key Games)
Design  

GDC 2015
Level Design in a Day: The Level Design of Gone Home
by Kate Craig (Fullbright)
Production  

GDC 2015
Level Design in a Day: The Worlds of Sunset Overdrive
by Liz England (Insomniac Games)
Production  

GDC 2015
Level Design in a Day: Using Level Design Tools Expressively
by Forrest Dowling (The Molasses Flood)
Design  

GDC 2015
Level Design in a Day: Wayfinding & Storytelling Techniques
by Brendon Chung (Blendo Games)
Production  

GDC 2015
Level Up Your Game: The Untapped Potential of Roguelikes
by Tom Cadwell (Riot Games)
Design  

GDC 2015
Leveraging Human Buying Behaviors for F2P Game Success
by Tom Nichols (Aeria Games)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2015
Lightning Talk! Lightning Talk! Lightning Talk! (Presented by Google)
by Noah Falstein (Google)
Programming  

GDC 2015
LittleBigPlanet 3 and Beyond: Taking Your Score to Vertical Extremes
by Winifred Phillips (Generations Productions LLC)
Audio  

GDC 2015
LIVE ART DEMO - Creativity Tools: A Digital Methodology for Design Inspi...
by Patrick Faulwetter (Independent)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
LiveOps: A Process in the Making
by Bethany Frank (MunkyFun, Inc)
Production  

GDC 2015
Making Dreams Come True - Global Illumination with Enlighten (Presented ...
by Graham Hazel (Geomerics, an ARM company)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Making Five Star Games for NVIDIA SHIELD and Android TV (Presented by NV...
by Lars M. Bishop (NVIDIA)
Design  

GDC 2015
Making Full Use of Orchestral Colors in Interactive Music
by Jim Fowler (Sony Computer Entertainment - World Wide Studios)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Making It to Break It: Designing Hack 'n' Slash
by Brandon Dillon (Double Fine)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Making Kitty Powers' Matchmaker - Adventures of a Videogame Drag Queen
by Richard Franke (Magic Notion)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Making Mobile Games More Magnificent (Presented by Google)
by Greg Hartrell (Google, Inc.)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Making Money with Google Play
by John McGuire (Google)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2015
Making Things Up: The Power and Peril of PCG
by Gillian Smith (Northeastern University)
AI Summit  

GDC 2015
Managing Game Communities Within the Culture Wars
by Gordon Walton (Art & Craft Entertainment)
Community Management Summit  

GDC 2015
Manifest Destiny: Localizing Bungie's Destiny for the World
by Tom Slattery (Bungie)
Production  

GDC 2015
Marketing Indie Style
by Joel Dreskin (Independent)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Massive Crowd on Assassin's Creed Unity: AI Recycling
by Francois Cournoyer (Ubisoft)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Math for Game Programmers: Fast and Funky 1D Nonlinear Transformations
by Squirrel Eiserloh (SMU Guildhall)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Math for Game Programmers: Game Math Case Studies
by Eric Lengyel (Terathon Software)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Math for Game Programmers: Intro: Math Tutorial Fast Forward and Doing M...
by Squirrel Eiserloh (SMU Guildhall)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Math for Game Programmers: Inverse Kinematics Revisited
by Gino van den Bergen (Dtecta)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Math for Game Programmers: Math Microtalks
by Graham Rhodes (Applied Research Associates, Inc.)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Math for Game Programmers: Mixing Geodetic, Hand-crafted and Procedural ...
by Graham Rhodes (Applied Research Associates, Inc.)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Math for Game Programmers: Parallel Random Number Generation
by Manny Ko (Activision R&D)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Math for Game Programmers: Understanding Homogeneous Coordinates
by Squirrel Eiserloh (SMU Guildhall)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Meaningful Pay: Monetizing F2P Without "The Pinch"
by Scott Rigby (Immersyve)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2015
Measuring and Manipulating Player Trust through Choice and Game Mechanics
by Chris Hazard (Hazardous Software)
AI Summit  

GDC 2015
Metagame Balance
by Alexander Jaffe (Spry Fox)
eSports Summit  

GDC 2015
Micro Postmortems
by Brandon Sheffield (Necrosoft Games)
Game Career Seminar  

GDC 2015
Mobile Devices as Development Platform in Broken Age
by Oliver Franzke (Double Fine Productions)
Programming  

GDC 2015
More Science Behind Shaping Player Behavior in Online Games
by Jeffrey Lin (Riot Games)
Design  

GDC 2015
More Than This World: A Design Retrospective on Sid Meier's Civilization...
by Will Miller (Firaxis Games)
Design  

GDC 2015
Multithreading the Entire Destiny Engine
by Barry Genova (Bungie)
Programming  

GDC 2015
My Ordinary Process for Crafting Extra-Ordinary Stories
by Kazutaka Kodaka (Spike Chunsoft)
Design  

GDC 2015
Narrative Review Process - Getting Useful Feedback on Your Story
by Jonathan Dankoff (Ubisoft)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2015
Networking Gameplay and AI in Assassin's Creed Unity
by Charles Lefebvre (Ubisoft)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Never Alone: the Art and the People of the Story
by Dima Veryovka (E-Line Media)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
New Approaches to F2P Game Design
by Ethan Levy (FamousAspect)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2015
New GPU Features of NVIDIA's Maxwell Architecture (Presented by NVIDIA)
by Holger Gruen (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2015
No More Excuses, Your Guide to Accessible Design
by Tara Voelker (Ready at Dawn)
Design  

GDC 2015
NVIDIA SLI and Stutter Avoidance: A Recipe for Smooth Gaming and Perfect...
by Iain Cantlay (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2015
NVIDIA VXGI: Dynamic Global Illumination for Games (Presented by NVIDIA)
by Alexey Panteleev (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Office Space: Do's and Don'ts of Game Development Workplace Design
by Demetri Detsaridis (The Leisure Committee)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
One Up: How Our Game Saved a Life
by Oliver Miao (Pixelberry Studios)
Design  

GDC 2015
Open Development: Taking Desktop Dungeons from Prototype to Pre-Order to...
by Marc Luck (QCF Design)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Open World Game Audio - Sunset Overdrive
by Dwight Okahara (Insomniac Games)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Opportunities in Asia: Insights and Strategies for Western Mobile Develo...
by Josh Burns (Independent)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Optimizing Games for PowerVR (Presented by Imagination Technologies)
by Paul Sobek (Imagination Technologies)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Order from Chaos: The Art Direction of Sunset Overdrive
by Jacinda Chew (Insomniac Games)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Overcoming Analysis Paralysis: Experimenting with Bears vs. Art
by Luke Muscat (Halfbrick Studios)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Parallel Worlds: The Mysterious Art of the Sub-Narrative
by Navid Khavari (Ubisoft Toronto)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2015
Parallelizing the Naughty Dog Engine Using Fibers
by Christian Gyrling (Naughty Dog)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Peggle Blast: Big Concepts, Small Project
by RJ Mattingly (PopCap)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Perfecting the Recipe for Mobile Success: Restaurant Story 2 Postmortem
by Tim LeTourneau (Storm8)
Design  

GDC 2015
Permadeath, Aging and Marriage: The Bloodline System of Massive Chalice
by Brad Muir (Double Fine Productions)
Design  

GDC 2015
Physics for Game Programmers : Robust Contact Creation for Physics Simu...
by Dirk Gregorius (Valve)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Physics for Game Programmers : Networking for Physics Programmers
by Glenn Fiedler (Respawn Entertainment)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Physics for Game Programmers : Numerical Methods
by Erin Catto (Blizzard Entertainment)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Physics for Game Programmers : Physics Optimization Strategies
by Sergiy Migdalskiy (Valve)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Physics for Game Programmers: Destruction in Smash Hit
by Dennis Gustafsson (Mediocre)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Player Centric Live Ops Monetization (Presented by Fuse Powered Inc)
by Jon Walsh (Fuse Powered Inc)
Monetization  

GDC 2015
Player Choice of Gender and Body Type in Sunset Overdrive
by Adalbert Kinsey (Insomniac Games)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Playing Your Own Game: How Mobile Indies Can Maximize Their Chances Befo...
by Keith Katz (Execution Labs)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Plot Is Dumb, Character Is Cool: Writing for DLC
by Anthony Burch (Gearbox Software)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2015
Portrayals and Pitfalls of Fatness in Games
by Todd Harper (University of Baltimore)
Advocacy  

GDC 2015
Postmortem: Developing Systemic Crowd Events on Assassin's Creed Unity
by Christine Blondeau (Ubisoft Montreal)
Design  

GDC 2015
Power-ups, Super Suits, and Epic Raids: Deconstructing the Game Experien...
by Jason Thibeault (Limelight Networks)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Practical Virtual Reality for Disney Themeparks
by Bei Yang (Walt Disney Imagineering)
Design  

GDC 2015
Precision of Emotion: A New Kind of "Fun" Approach
by Erin Hoffman (GlassLab)
Design  

GDC 2015
Procedural and Automation Techniques for Design and Production of Sunset...
by David Santiago (Insomniac Games)
Design  

GDC 2015
Producer Bootcamp: Business Fundamentals for Non-Business Types
by Dan Adelman (Dan Adelman LLC)
Production  

GDC 2015
Producer Bootcamp: Final Panel
by Laura Fryer (Oculus VR)
Production  

GDC 2015
Producer Bootcamp: How to Prioritize When Everything is Pri 1
by Ruth Tomandl (PlayFab, Inc.)
Production  

GDC 2015
Producer Bootcamp: My To-Do List: Organizing a Producer's Work
by Bernard Yee (Oculus)
Production  

GDC 2015
Producer Bootcamp: The Bane of All Development Postmortems: Communicatio...
by Aaron Thibault (Gearbox Software)
Production  

GDC 2015
Producer Panel: Managing Your Indie Team
by Alex Schwartz (Owlchemy Labs)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Reactive Game Development: The Talos Principle Postmortem
by Alen Ladavac (Croteam)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Reimagining Simulation Sports as an Independent Developer
by Peter Garcin (HB Studios)
Design  

GDC 2015
Remember to Relax! Realizing Relaxed Behaviors in AAA Games
by Bobby Anguelov (Ubisoft Montreal)
AI Summit  

GDC 2015
Remote Working at Spry Fox
by Andrew Fray (Spry Fox)
Production  

GDC 2015
Rendering the World of Far Cry 4
by Stephen McAuley (Ubisoft Montreal)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Returners and Retention - How to Win Back Lapsed Players
by Phil Mansell (Jagex Game Studios)
Design  

GDC 2015
Rules of the Game: Five Tricks of Highly Effective Designers
by Richard Rouse III (Paranoid Productions)
Design  

GDC 2015
Running a Successful Games Business with Google (Presented by Google)
by Bob Meese (Google, Inc.)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Saving Game History Forever - Or Dooming It To Oblivion?
by Jason Scott (Internet Archive)
Advocacy  

GDC 2015
Saving It, Showing It: Collecting and Exhibiting Videogame History
by William Huber (Abertay University, School of Art, Media and Games)
Advocacy  

GDC 2015
Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers
by Itay Keren (Untame)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Secrets of Publishing Mobile Games in China (Presented by CMGE)
by Jian Xiao (CMGE)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Shared World Shooter: Destiny's Networked Mission Architecture
by Justin Truman (Bungie)
Design  

GDC 2015
SIMD at Insomniac Games: How We Do the Shuffle
by Andreas Fredriksson (Insomniac Games)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Small Teams, Big Dreams: How to Build a Small Team to Do Great Things
by Simon Oliver (HandCircus)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Smart Sound Design Using Modularity and Data Inheritance
by Martin Loxton (Frostbite)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Smart Strategies to Acquire, Monetize and Retain Gamers (Presented by Go...
by Russell Ketchum (Google)
Monetization  

GDC 2015
Social Casino Postmortems
by Jessy Hanley (GSN Games)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2015
Social Impact in Design and Acquisition
by Dmitri Williams (Ninja Metrics)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2015
Socially Responsible Game Education
by Jane Pinckard (University of Southern California)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2015
Soundtracking Hell - The Music of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls
by Russell Brower (Blizzard Entertainment)
Audio  

GDC 2015
Spellbound: Asking Questions About Habit Forming Game Design
by Oscar Clark (Unity Technologies)
Design  

GDC 2015
StarCraft II and GameHeart: Evolving eSports Interfaces with Modders
by Philip Tan (MIT Game Lab)
eSports Summit  

GDC 2015
Steal These Templates - Creating a Community Plan the Easy Way
by Stephanie Bayer (Insomniac Games)
Community Management Summit  

GDC 2015
Still Gaming After All These Years
by David Mullich (Electric Sheep Game Consulting)
Advocacy  

GDC 2015
Straight Talk About Community Manager Tenure
by Nova Barlow (University of Washington, Center for Game Science)
Community Management Summit  

GDC 2015
Strategic Community Communication: Managing Your Channels Without Runnin...
by Maurice Tan (Deep Silver)
Community Management Summit  

GDC 2015
Strategies for Efficient Authoring of Content in Middle-earth: Shadow of...
by Doug Heimer (Monolith Productions)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Streaming in Sunset Overdrive's Open World
by Elan Ruskin (Insomniac Games)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Strong People, Strong Studio: How You Can Strengthen Your People's and Y...
by Johanna Schober (Sproing Interactive Media GmbH)
Production  

GDC 2015
Success Through Stubbornness: The Race The Sun Story
by Aaron San Filippo (Flippfly)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Sunset City Express: Improving the NavMesh Pipeline in Sunset Overdrive
by Jonathan Adamczewski (Insomniac Games)
AI Summit  

GDC 2015
Surviving the Jump from AAA to Indie
by Robert Zubek (SomaSim)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
Taking It Personal: The Emotional Toll of Being Indie
by Christian Allen (Serellan LLC)
Advocacy  

GDC 2015
Tales from the Trenches: AI Disaster Stories
by Steve Rabin (DigiPen Institute of Technology)
AI Summit  

GDC 2015
Tales of a Billion in China: Currency System Design in The World III (Pr...
by Wu Jiang (NetEase Games)
Design  

GDC 2015
Teaching Beyond the Industry
by Miguel Sicart (IT University of Copenhagen)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2015
Teaching Games with Games 2: Six More Exercises in Play
by Eric Zimmerman (NYU Game Center)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2015
Teaching the Aesthetics of Game Audio Design
by Chanel Summers (Syndicate 17)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2015
Teaching Tolerance and Civil Courage Through Games with 'Call Her Lotte'
by Michael Geidel (MiriquidiFilm)
Advocacy  

GDC 2015
Tech Toolbox
by Jonatan Van Hove (Glitchnap)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Technical Artist Bootcamp: Defense Against the Dark Arts: Budgets and Bu...
by Paul Vosper (Bungie)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Technical Artist Bootcamp: Nasum Virtualis: A Simple Technique for Reduc...
by Dr. David Whittinghill (Purdue University)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Technical Artist Bootcamp: Panel Q&A
by Jeff Hanna (Deep Silver Volition)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Technical Artist Bootcamp: Proceduralism and Automation at Certain Affinity
by Luiz Kruel (Certain Affinity)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Technical Artist Bootcamp: Running the Halo Multiplayer Experience at 60...
by Bryan Moss (Certain Affinity)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Technical Artist Bootcamp: Tech Art in Tamriel: The Elder Scrolls Online...
by Richard Katz (Zenimax Online)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Technical Artist Roundtable: Day 1
by Jeff Hanna (Deep Silver Volition)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Technical Artist Roundtable: Day 2
by Jeff Hanna (Deep Silver Volition)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Technical Artist Roundtable: Day 3
by Jeff Hanna (Deep Silver Volition)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Tengami: The Art of a Folding World
by Jennifer Schneidereit (Nyamyam)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
The Art of Aztez
by Ben Ruiz (Team Colorblind)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
The Art of Firewatch
by Jane Ng (Campo Santo)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
The Art of First Person Animation for Destiny
by David Helsby (Bungie)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
The Art of Monument Valley
by Ken Wong (ustwo)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
The Benefits and Challenges of Supporting Third-Party Developers in Games
by Regner Blok-Andersen (CCP Games)
Design  

GDC 2015
The Color of Enlightenment: Defining Shangri-La Within Far Cry 4
by Joshua Cook (Ubisoft Toronto)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
The Dawn of Mobile VR
by John Carmack (Oculus)
Programming  

GDC 2015
The Design in Narrative Design
by Jurie Horneman (Independent)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2015
The Evolving JRPG Audio Culture
by Tomohiro Yajima (Square Enix)
Audio  

GDC 2015
The Gamer's Brain: How Neuroscience and UX Can Impact Design
by Celia Hodent (Epic Games)
Design  

GDC 2015
The Importance of Cultural Touchstones in Game Design Practice
by Morgan Romine (UC Irvine)
Design  

GDC 2015
The Lemming Thinking: F2P Business Model Reviewed
by Carsten van Husen (Gameforge)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
The Making of Lexica: A Truly Massive Tablet Game
by Jesse Schell (Schell Games LLC)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2015
The Making of the Stop Motion Film "The Boxtrolls"
by Graham Annable (Laika)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
The Neuroscience of Game Audio
by Zak Belica (Epic Games, Inc.)
Audio  

GDC 2015
The NVIDIA SHIELD Platform for Developers (Presented by NVIDIA)
by Tony Tamasi (NVIDIA)
Design  

GDC 2015
The Play of Stillness: Designing Experiential Play Spaces
by Brian Upton (Sony Santa Monica)
Design  

GDC 2015
The Power of the Abstract
by Liz Ryerson (ella guro)
Design  

GDC 2015
The Simplest AI Trick in the Book
by Steve Rabin (DigiPen Institute of Technology)
AI Summit  

GDC 2015
The Technology Behind NVIDIA GRID Game Streaming (Presented by NVIDIA)
by Xun Wang (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2015
The Technology of The Tomorrow Children
by James McLaren (Q-Games Ltd)
Programming  

GDC 2015
The Turning Tide: Independent Game Sales in 2015
by Mike Rose (tinyBuild Games)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
The Ultimate Trim: Texturing Techniques of Sunset Overdrive
by Morten Olsen (Insomniac Games)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
The Uncomfortable Truth About Mobile Games (Presented by Pollen VC)
by Martin Macmillan (Pollen VC)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2015
The Universe: How To Break The Game
by Dain Saint (Cipher Prime)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
The Vertical Slice Challenge
by Greg Donovan (Volition)
Production  

GDC 2015
The Year in F2P Games, Part One: Social/Mobile
by Steve Meretzky (GSN Games)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2015
The Year in F2P Games, Part Two: Beyond Social/Mobile
by Frank Cartwright (Reloaded Games Inc.)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2015
There Be Monsters: Harnessing the Power of Community-Informed Developmen...
by Raphael van Lierop (Hinterland Studio)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Thinking About People: Designing Games for Social Simulation
by Mitu Khandaker-Kokoris (The Tiniest Shark Ltd.)
Design  

GDC 2015
This War of Mine: Raising Emotions From Unique Narrative
by Pawel Miechowski (11 Bit Studios)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Those that Slay Together A Co-op Manifesto
by Kevin Martens (Blizzard Entertainment)
Design  

GDC 2015
Tools Development at Ubisoft: Building a Shared Vision to Improve the Us...
by David Lightbown (Ubisoft)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Tools-Based Rigging in Bungie's Destiny
by David Hunt (Bungie)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2015
Top 5 Tips for Porting Unity Games to Fire Devices (Presented by Amazon)
by Jesse Freeman (Amazon)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Transitioning from Linear to Open World Design with Sunset Overdrive
by Liz England (Insomniac Games)
Design  

GDC 2015
Transmogrified Reality
by Noah Falstein (Google)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Turing Tantrums: AI Devs Rant!!
by Steve Rabin (DigiPen Institute of Technology)
AI Summit  

GDC 2015
Turning the Tide: Hiring and Retaining Women in the Games Industry
by Fiona Cherbak (Gameloft)
Advocacy  

GDC 2015
Two Audiences, One Game: Shattered Planet on Mobile and Steam
by Jongwoo Kim (Kitfox Games)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2015
Ubisoft Cloth Simulation: Performance Postmortem and Journey from C++ to...
by Alexis Vaisse (Ubisoft)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Unconventional Wisdom on Creating a Passionate Community
by Gabe Graziani (Ubisoft)
Community Management Summit  

GDC 2015
Unleash the Benefits of OpenGL ES 3.1 and Android Extension Pack (AEP) (...
by Hans-Kristian Arntzen (ARM)
Programming  

GDC 2015
Unreal Engine 4 Mobile Graphics on ARM CPU and GPU Architecture (Present...
by Jesse Barker (ARM)
Programming  

GDC 2015
User Acquisition from Beta Launching to Scale
by Phil Shpilberg (GameChangerSF)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2015
User Research on Destiny
by John Hopson (Bungie)
Design