By Kate Gray
You’ve probably heard of E3, the huge game conference where companies splash out on ridiculously lavish press events, new games are announced, and everyone in the audience goes “WOO” and it’s incredibly annoying. You may even know Gamescom, the smaller, European cousin of E3, which is roughly the same except the “WOO”s are in German.
But perhaps you don’t know GDC, the Game Developer’s Conference, which is also gigantic but with significantly fewer “WOO”s and an emphasis on the people behind the games rather than the ones who should be buying them.
GDC is, to put it simply, a fantastic place. Where E3 and Gamescom are about business, making deals and trying to pump up your sales, GDC is more like a gathering of friends. People sit in clumps in the park, chasing the sun until the late hours; they congregate in the common room of the “indie hostel”, an unofficial title for the HI San Francisco Downtown hostel that gets taken over by hundreds of indie developers each year for the conference; they huddle in corners of the show floor swapping stickers and congratulating each other on their recent game releases.
It feels more like a celebration here than a networking …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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