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GDC Panel on Strategy Games

August 22nd, 2011 · 4 Comments · Design, GDC

The GDC panel with Tom Chick, Dustin Browder, Soren Johnson, Ian Fischer and Jon Shafer is now available for viewing at the GDC vault. A great discussion.

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Strategy Gaming at GDC

March 6th, 2011 · 5 Comments · GDC

I miss the Game Developer’s Conference. Haven’t been there since 2007, the year when Computer Games Magazine was shuttered the day after the conference closed. It’s one of my favorites because, for me at least, the attention is on the art and craft of making a game. If I could write any book, it would […]

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 56: Civ 5, Sid Meier and Farmville

March 16th, 2010 · 17 Comments · GDC, Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

We throw together a show on some of the strategy gaming news and ideas coming out of this year’s GDC. What do we know and not know about Civilization 5? Is Sid Meier coddling players in his psychological approach? And why is Julian on the side of evil in the Facebook wars? We announce the […]

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GDC is not about announcements

April 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · GDC, Media

I wish I had written this. It’s not just GDC that is so afflicted, either. Just as media outlets are astonished and angered each year by the lack of non-development announcements at a development conference, they also build the same pointless expectation over shows like Game Convention (realistically, too close to Christmas for any major […]

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Game Design Panels at GDC

January 22nd, 2009 · 6 Comments · GDC

So far it looks like I’ve been passed over for an official invite to the now smaller and more focused Game Developers’ Conference. Which is too bad, because these look really interesting talks. A game design challenge about sex and autobiography, Big Huge Games opening up about their RPG, iterative design in Mass Effect 2… […]

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GDC Inviting Press in the Future

February 27th, 2008 · 5 Comments · GDC, Me, Media

Kotaku is reporting that future editions of DICE and GDC will be going invite only with press registration. Concerned about the growing size of the conference and the vanishing developer culture of the annual event, Jamil Moledina thinks that something has to be done to get GDC back under control. “It’s meant to be a […]

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