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December 2024 edition of the GDC Monthly Newsletter

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On behalf of the GDC Team, we want to thank you for your continued support! Sending you and yours warm wishes for a joyous holiday season and a Happy New Year!

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A Matter of Perspective: Mixing Sound in 'Split Fiction'

Joakim Enigk Sjöberg (Senior Technical Sound Designer, Hazelight Studios

Philip Eriksson (Audio Director, Hazelight)

How do you use audio to make sense of two stories unfolding simultaneously? Join in on an intimate lecture where Philip Eriksson and Joakim Enigk Sjöberg outlines how the Hazelight audio team worked their way towards their answer to this very question as they went on the creative journey to build their new coop adventure in Split Fiction.

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Teaching Nix to Behave in 'Star Wars Outlaws'

Simon Abou Assi (Senior AI Programmer, Massive Entertainment – a Ubisoft Studio)

Sarah Schulze (Senior Gameplay Animator, Massive Entertainment – a Ubisoft Studio)

Juan Miguel Lechuga Pérez (Senior Gameplay Programmer, Massive Entertainment – a Ubisoft Studio)

How can a companion be more useful than a blaster bolt?

Welcome to an inside look at the development of Nix, Kay Vess' adorable companion in Star Wars Outlaws. A grounded character in an open world game can bring a set of realization and navigation challenges which are not often tackled in game development.

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Educators Summit: Preparing Students for the Worst: Layoffs, Contract Work and More

Tyler Coleman (Founder, Retora Games)

Some may shy away from the idea of showcasing the negative parts of our industry, but in this talk we'll see an advocacy for facing them directly with an experiential approach. We'll look at three class experiments over the past 5 years from the speaker, ranging from layoffs, gig economy contract work, and more.

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'Polish something that has never existed before:' Miyamoto explains how Nintendo is countering rising development costs

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Independent Games Summit: A Case for Making Your Own Engine

It’s been 5 years since Massive Entertainment showed how the Snowdrop Engine delivered high-fidelity environmental acoustic effects for "Tom Clancy's The Division 2". With "Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora" these technologies had to be adapted or re-designed to a planetary scale, while also maintaining their fidelity at a city scale.

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