GDC 2012 claims record attendance
Over 22,000 attend annual show, 2013 dates scheduled
2012 Game Developers Conference (GDC) hosted a record-breaking 22,500 game industry professionals last week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, a 17% increase in attendance over the previous year’s event.
The main conference kicked off on Wednesday with GDC's first-ever "Flash Forward", a session that saw nearly 100 main conference speakers each take the stage for a forty-five second brief overview of their sessions in front of thousands of attendees. The popular Game Design Challenge saw three designers’ ideas for creating a 60-second game on this year’s theme “upgrading humanity.” Richard Lemarchand of Naughty Dog won the Challenge with a game that attempted to first invoke and then eliminate shame.
At the Game Developers Choice Awards, Bethesda Game Studios’ adventure game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim took home Game of the Year. The evening’s multiple-award winners were Valve Corporation’s puzzle adventure Portal 2, which received three awards, and action-RPG Bastion from indie developer Supergiant Games took home two Choice Awards.
Following the success of the show, organizers have announced that GDC 2013 will return to the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco from Monday, March 25 to Friday, March 29, 2013.
The main conference kicked off on Wednesday with GDC's first-ever "Flash Forward", a session that saw nearly 100 main conference speakers each take the stage for a forty-five second brief overview of their sessions in front of thousands of attendees. The popular Game Design Challenge saw three designers’ ideas for creating a 60-second game on this year’s theme “upgrading humanity.” Richard Lemarchand of Naughty Dog won the Challenge with a game that attempted to first invoke and then eliminate shame.
At the Game Developers Choice Awards, Bethesda Game Studios’ adventure game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim took home Game of the Year. The evening’s multiple-award winners were Valve Corporation’s puzzle adventure Portal 2, which received three awards, and action-RPG Bastion from indie developer Supergiant Games took home two Choice Awards.
Following the success of the show, organizers have announced that GDC 2013 will return to the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco from Monday, March 25 to Friday, March 29, 2013.
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