Author Archives: Trent Polack

Mar
13
2010

GDC 2010 Wrap-Up

Today was my last day at GDC and, at that, it was quite a short one. While I was waiting outside of my first session, a woman came up to me and announced she was a speaker and asked if she could borrow my Mac cord. I said sure. She said I saved the conference. [...]

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Mar
13
2010

GDC 2010 – Day 6

I’m kind of a big fan of this whole game development and game developers conference thing. This is especially true since the main conference started on Thursday. The Indie/Serious Game Summits are both fantastic, but the lectures and sessions in the main conference are just so good. And it’s hard to deny how awesome it [...]

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Mar
12
2010

GDC 2010 – Day 5

Yesterday I learned the meaning of the oft-heard phrase throughout the early part of the week: “GDC hasn’t even really started yet.” It appears that the Summits/Tutorials make up only a fraction of the total GDC audience once the main conference has started and the expo floor is opened up. All of the parts of [...]

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Mar
11
2010

GDC 2010 – Day 4

Despite being my first GDC, I actually feel like I’m kind of getting the hang of things. I started another morning in the lobby of the nearby Marriott by writing up the day prior (much like I’m doing right now). Unlike the last few days, though, I have 9:00am sessions to make rather than 10:00am [...]

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Mar
10
2010

GDC 2010 – Day 3

Being from the Central Time Zone, I’m really digging the fact that I actually am waking up early by local standards throughout the week. My morning office consists of a couch and table in the back of a hotel that I’m not staying at:

My plan for the day was to attend the Game Design Workshop [...]

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Mar
10
2010

GDC 2010 – Day 2

Like every good day, Day 2 began with the sound of the guy in the bathroom of the room adjacent to mine gargling with mouthwash.
San Francisco is one of the most strangely organized cities I’ve ever seen. It’s like the settlers of 1776 were looking around the Western reaches of this new territory, saw this [...]

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Mar
10
2010

GDC 2010 – Day 1

I’m not much of a traveler. I don’t dislike it, I just don’t do it much. Going to the Game Developers Conference this year is something I’ve wanted to do for ages. Back when I started getting involved in game development when I was a tiny little fourteen-year-old kid reading the forums at GameDev.net for [...]

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