GDC 2009: The Aftermath

The Game Developers Conference was a success from a numbers perspective, according to organizer Think Services. we’ll get to the numbers in a second, but I think it was a success for another reason: the excitement. Perhaps it was just being there this year, but it sure seemed like that was a lot of positive energy and general excitement about games and gaming. From OnLive to the IGF pavilion, attendees seemed excited, happy and proud to be in the industry they are in. Enough romance, let’s check out the stats..

GDC 2009 hosted more than 17,000 game industry professionals and journalists last week at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center. The attendance was down slightly from 18,000 last year.. The conference attracted the working press, students, independent developers, executives and bagmen and the industries brightest and greatest development talent.

The five day conference included more than 500 lectures, panels, summits, tutorials and roundtable discussions covering process, business, the media, and all stops in between.

GDC returns to the Moscone Center March 9-13, 2010.

Rumor: Fable III at GDC

Will Peter Molyneux be revealing Fable III or some other secret game project at the Game Developers Conference later this month? Perhaps he’s being cheeky, but Molyneux said at the BAFTA awards ceremony that those curious about what Lionhead is currently working on will want to pay close attention to what he does or says at GDC.

“Naming a particular game before it’s out is a difficult thing. And I’ll tell you why, because in two weeks I’m about to fly out to America for the Gamers’ Development Conference and that’s the time when you start to see what’s really coming up,” said Molyneux to the BBC.

British radio and television personality Jonathan Ross also threw some gasoline on the fire by saying that he was doing some voice work for Fable III via twitter.

Maybe this will be like a fake out make out where Molyneux tells us about the ship in a bottle he’s been working on for the last three months. Stay tuned. Check out our Fable II games page to see just how good the last game in the popular RPG series rated.

thanks, www.vg247.com.

Kojima to Recieve Lifetime Achievement Award

Think Services Game Group’s 2009 Game Developers Choice Awards, will honor Metal Gear Solid developer Hideo Kojima with a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s ceremony taking place at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). Kojima is Corporate Officer, Executive Producer and Director of Kojima Productions and creator of the Metal Gear series. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes the career and achievements of developers who have made an indelible impact on the craft of game development, as Kojima has with over twenty years of work on Metal Gear and other notable franchises.

Presented by GDC and Gamasutra, the awards ceremony is held in conjunction with the Independent Games Festival and will be hosted on March 25, in the Esplanade Room in the South Hall of San Francisco’s Moscone Center. For complete details, please visit www.gamechoiceawards.com.

Hideo Kojima will also be making his Game Developers Conference speaking debut at GDC09 when he gives the keynote lecture, “Solid Game Design: Making the ‘Impossible’ Possible,” the morning after the Choice Awards Ceremony, on Thursday, March 26, 2009 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PST in the Esplanade Room of the Moscone Center’s South Hall.

GDC 2009 Registration Opens

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) will return to the Moscone Center in San Francisco March 23-27, 2009. I bet you’re excited. This year’s conference produced by the Think Services Game Group features five days of keynotes, sessions, panel discussions, and roundtables aimed at game developers and business professionals. The entire GDC Summit Lineup for 2009 includes summits on AI, casual games, game outsourcing, IGDA education, and localization. GDC will also feature its popular Serious Games, Independent Games and Worlds in Motion Summits.

The conference takes place from March 23-27, 2009. Registration and conference information is available online at the official GDC website, www.gdconf.com.