Get ready for a week of learning and inspiration on key game devleopment topics! All dates and times for the hundreds of sessions happening at the Game Developers Conference next month have been uploaded into the GDC Session Viewer.
In this talk, Bradley Lovell, developer of 2022's The Looker, a parody of the 2015 open-world puzzle game The Witness, discusses what it takes to make a high-bandwidth parody that goes beyond obvious audio-visual gags to tell jokes through gameplay, as well as engage deeply with the source material. This discussion touches on the core appeals of parody games, as well as the unique opportunities for humor that games afford. Read More >>
Clemens Rögner (Senior R&D Programmer, Tencent Games)
Calle Lejdfors (Director of Production R&D, Tencent Games)
Attendees will leave with a good understanding of how to make machine learning models run in real-time on the CPU within a game, as well as the pitfalls and difficulties of implementing the machine learning model execution in the Unreal Engine on PC and Consoles. Read More >>
This session presents an overview of On-Demand Texture streaming technology for Call of Duty, up to and including 2022's Modern Warfare 2. This system significantly reduces the install size of a Call of Duty title while retaining high-quality image quality and low latency multiplayer experience. Read More >>
Harris Foster (Senior Community Manager, Finji Co, LLC)
Replicating the enigmatic nature of classic action-adventure games, TUNIC's gameplay hinges on audience collaboration to uncover its many secrets and hidden elements. With a large part of TUNIC's enjoyment relying on the presence of an existing community, how would the audience of journalists given pre-release review access be able to have the ideal experience? Read More >>
This talk looks in detail at the ways a company structure and culture are built, and how this can set game developers up for success or failure. Morgan considers and outlines some of the ways the Defiant culture helped and how it ultimately hindered its ultimate success. Read More >>
