GDC 2005
5th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards

Special Event  

GDC 2005
7th Annual Independent Games Festival Awards

Special Event  

GDC 2005
A Case for Message Passing Architectures
by Dave Weinstein (Red Storm Entertainment)
Programming  

GDC 2005
A Practical Guide to the Hero's Journey
by Bob Bates  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Academic Insights: What Researchers Can and Can't Tell You About Your Games
by Constance Steinkuehler (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
IGDA  

GDC 2005
Adaptive Music Jam
by Guy Whitmore (Microsoft)
Audio  

GDC 2005
Adopting Middleware: What's Holding Us Back?
by Trent Oster (BioWare Corp.)
Production  

GDC 2005
Advanced Real-Time Rendering: Beyond Reflectance
by Dan Baker (Firaxis)
Programming  

GDC 2005
Advanced Stencil Shadow and Penumbral Wedge Rendering
by Eric Lengyel  
Programming  

GDC 2005
Agile Methodology and Scrum in Game Development
by Clinton Keith (Clinton Keith Consulting)
Production  

GDC 2005
AI For Adaptive Opponents, Teammates and NPCs
by Michael Van Lent  
Programming  

GDC 2005
An Orwellian approach to AI architecture
by Igor Borovikov  
Programming  

GDC 2005
Art Content Creation for the Next Generation Unreal Engine
by Pete Hayes  
Visual Arts  

GDC 2005
Attack of the Design Directors!
by Brian Allgeier  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Audio Implementation Methodologies
by Marc Schaefgen (The Sound Department, Austin)
Audio  

GDC 2005
Audio Production for Halo 2
by Jay Weinland (Bungie Studios)
Audio  

GDC 2005
Befuddlement in Action: Classic Usability Problems in Games and How to A...
by Ramon Romero (Microsoft Game Studios)
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Best Practices for Game Lighting with Maya
by Rob Ormond  
Visual Arts  

GDC 2005
Better Games (and Quality of Life) in 40 Hours per Week
by Hank Howie  
IGDA  

GDC 2005
Blind Man's Bluff: Using Automated Metrics to Understand Development Pro...
by Dean Margerison  
Production  

GDC 2005
Bonus or Bogus: Working with Hollywood Production Companies
by Rosanna Sun  
Production  

GDC 2005
Breaking the Mold: Audio Innovation in Downloadable Games
by Michael Sweet (Berklee College of Music)
Audio  

GDC 2005
Building the Impossible: How to Build a Full-scale MMO for Just Over $1 ...
by Andrew Tepper  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Burning Down the House: Game Developers Rant
by Greg Costikyan  
IGDA  

GDC 2005
Can The Cost of Product Piracy Be Measured?
by Stevan Mitchell  
Business and Legal  

GDC 2005
Career Development: In-house, Freelance, or Part of an Audio Production ...
by Don Veca (Sledgehammer Games/Activision)
Audio  

GDC 2005
CELL: A New Platform for Digital Entertainment
by Mark DeLoura (Videogame Technology Consultant)
Programming  

GDC 2005
Cinema Quality Face Animation Using Bones
by Nicholas Zeman  
Visual Arts  

GDC 2005
Concepts & Animating Sam Fisher in Splinter Cell:The Chaos Theory
by Gilles Monteil  
Visual Arts  

GDC 2005
Content Management for Halo 2 and Beyond
by Mat Noguchi  
Programming  

GDC 2005
Continuous Collision Detection of General Convex Objects Under Translation
by Gino van den Bergen  
Programming  

GDC 2005
Counting Women: The Dollars and Cents Behind Female Gamers
by Schelley Olhava (IDC)
IGDA  

GDC 2005
Covering Your Assets: Music Publishing Royalties
by Steve Schnur (Electronic Arts)
Audio  

GDC 2005
Creating and Deploying Real-time Shader Effects in a Games Production Pi...
by Jean Claude Alexandre  
Visual Arts  

GDC 2005
Data-Driven Programming Made Easy
by Eric Malafeew (Harmonix Music Systems, Inc.)
Programming  

GDC 2005
Deconstructing Sam: Narrative in the Splinter Cell Trilogy
by Clint Hocking  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Designing the AAA Title: Letters from the Trenches
by E. Daniel Arey (Big Red Button Entertainment)
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Developers are from Jupiter, Marketers are from Saturn: Learn the Secret...
by Billy Cain (Critical Mass Interactive)
Business and Legal  

GDC 2005
Dissecting Interactive Design
by Cliff Bleszinski  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Dynamic Waypoints, Object Grouping, and Optimal Cover Positions: Making ...
by Michael Delp  
Programming  

GDC 2005
Effective Quest Design in MMORPG Environment
by Gyuhwan Oh  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Effective Use of OpenMP in Games
by Pete Isensee  
Programming  

GDC 2005
Efficient Proximity Mapping in Highly Dynamic Environments
by Andrea Pessino  
Programming  

GDC 2005
Entertaining AI: Using Rules from Improvisational Acting to Create Unscr...
by Brenda Bakker Harger  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Everything You Need to Know About Copyright, Performance Rights, and Mus...
by Jim Charne  
Audio  

GDC 2005
Experimental Gameplay 2005 (Part 1)
by Jonathan Blow (Number None, Inc.)
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Experimental Gameplay 2005 (Part 2)
by Jonathan Blow (Number None, Inc.)
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Experimental Gameplay 2005 (Part 3)
by Jonathan Blow (Number None, Inc.)
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Experimental Gameplay 2005 (Part 4)
by Jonathan Blow (Number None, Inc.)
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Expert Ears for the Game Pioneer
by Zach Aikman (Fishbeat)
Audio  

GDC 2005
EyeToy Play 2: Rapid Innovation
by Tomas Gillo  
Production  

GDC 2005
EyeToy: AntiGrav - Tales of Woe
by Eran Egozy  
Programming  

GDC 2005
Fable: Lessons Learned
by Peter Molyneux (Lionhead Studios)
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Fable: Lessons Learned (Japanese Language, part 1)
by Peter Molyneux (Lionhead Studios)
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Fable: Lessons Learned (Japanese Language, part 2)
by Peter Molyneux (Lionhead Studios)
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Fast, Yet Still Realistic Deformation and Fracture Creation
by James O'Brien (University of California, Berkeley)
Programming  

GDC 2005
Feature Film Performance Animation and Digital Human Acquisition for Nex...
by Remington Scott  
Visual Arts  

GDC 2005
Fundamentals of Real-Time Camera Design
by Mark Haigh-Hutchinson  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Gaining Ground on the Development of a God-Sized Design
by Chris Millar  
Production  

GDC 2005
Game Design Atoms: Can Game Designs Be Diagrammed?
by Raph Koster (Playdom)
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Game Design Challenge: The Emily Dickinson License
by Peter Molyneux (Lionhead Studios)
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Game Technology and Content Creation for the Next Generation
by Tim Sweeney  
Programming  

GDC 2005
Gameplay Moves Forward into the 21st Century
by Peter Molyneux (Lionhead Studios)
Vision  

GDC 2005
Ghost Redux: Production Challenges for Ghost Recon 2 for Xbox
by Heather Chandler (Media Sunshine, Inc.)
Production  

GDC 2005
Gripping Game Design: The Mood and Ambience of Silent Hill (English Lang...
by Akira Yamaoka  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Gripping Game Design: The Mood and Ambience of Silent Hill (Japanese Lan...
by Akira Yamaoka  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Heart of a Gamer
by Satoru Iwata (Nintendo Co., Ltd.)
Other  

GDC 2005
Helper Joints: Advanced Deformations on RunTime Characters
by Jason Parks  
Visual Arts  

GDC 2005
Hiring People from Abroad: Real World Examples and Winning Strategies
by Alex Rosen (GREE International)
Business and Legal  

GDC 2005
How Can MMOs Develop Mass Appeal in the US?
by Rich Vogel  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
How Developers Build a Brand for Their Company and Get More Coverage for...
by Sue Bohle  
Business and Legal  

GDC 2005
How To Produce and Promote a Game Soundtrack Album
by Marty O'Donnell  
Audio  

GDC 2005
How to Raise Venture Capital to Build a Game Company
by John Welch  
Business and Legal  

GDC 2005
Intelligent Game Audio Mixing and Automation
by Scott Selfon (Microsoft Corporation)
Audio  

GDC 2005
Interactive Narratives Revisited: Ten Years of Research
by Ernest Adams (Independent)
Game Design  

GDC 2005
International Game Designers Panel (English Language)
by Tetsuya Mizuguchi  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Interview with the Maestro: Nobuo Uematsu (English Version)
by Nobuo Uematsu  
Audio  

GDC 2005
Intuition and Intellect: Deconstructing the Design of Oasis
by Marc LeBlanc (TapZen)
Game Design  

GDC 2005
IP Deal Breakers: The Five Intellectual Property Rights Developers Shoul...
by Stephen Rubin  
Business and Legal  

GDC 2005
Key Project Management Best Practices
by Dylan Miklashek  
Production  

GDC 2005
Killzone AI: Dynamic Procedural Combat Tactics
by Arjen Beij  
Programming  

GDC 2005
Lessons from Viewtiful Joe: Making a Creatively and Financially Successf...
by Atsushi Inaba  
Production  

GDC 2005
Machine Learning for Semi-Automated Gameplay Analysis
by Finnegan Southey  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Making an Industry/Academic Relationship Work
by Kurt Squire (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
IGDA  

GDC 2005
Managing Complexity in the Halo 2 AI System
by Damian Isla (Moonshot Games)
Programming  

GDC 2005
Mano a Mano: A Primer on Melee Combat in Videogames
by Luis Barriga  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Methods for Motion Databases: Automated Search and Parameterization
by Lucas Kovar (ILM)
Programming  

GDC 2005
Mobile Games Development: Tricks of the Trade
by Stuart Platt (Microsoft)
Production  

GDC 2005
Mobile Phone Audio 101 for Producers
by Devin Maxwell  
Audio  

GDC 2005
Moving Beyond Ragdolls: Generating Versatile Human Behaviors by Combinin...
by Michael Mandel  
Programming  

GDC 2005
My Amp Goes Up to 11: Audio Reference Levels and Dynamics in Games
by Arvind Bhatia  
Audio  

GDC 2005
Navigating the Minefields: Military Accuracy in Tactical Shooters
by Christian Allen (WB Games)
Game Design  

GDC 2005
New Simulation Architectures and Algorithms For Games Physics
by Michael Lin  
Programming  

GDC 2005
Normal and Displacement Map, Sitting in a Tree
by Matthias Worch (LucasArts)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2005
Normal Mapping Production Techniques
by Ranjeet Singhal  
Visual Arts  

GDC 2005
Numerical robustness for geometric calculations
by Christer Ericson (Sony Computer Entertainment)
Programming  

GDC 2005
Online Game Architecture: Back-end Strategies
by Daniel Esbensen  
Business and Legal  

GDC 2005
Online Gaming in China: Getting the Chinese Consumer to Pay for Software
by Adam Lang  
Business and Legal  

GDC 2005
Optimized Data Design on Consoles
by Mike Acton (Insomniac Games)
Programming  

GDC 2005
Parachute Pants and Denim Dresses: Taking Real-Time Cloth Beyond Curtains
by Andrew Meggs  
Programming  

GDC 2005
Perform or Else! Why (and How) to Include Extroverted Play Design in you...
by Katherine Isbister  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Persistent Versus Instantiated Spaces: The Great Online Game Debate
by Anthony Castoro  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Physics in Parallel: Simulation on 7th Generation Hardware
by David Wu  
Programming  

GDC 2005
Pitfalls of the Working Lead Designer
by Michael Fitch  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Practical Implementation of SH Lighting and HDR Rendering on PlayStation 2
by Yoshiharu Gotanda  
Programming  

GDC 2005
Production and Producers: Hollywood Joins the Game
by Philippe Erwin  
Production  

GDC 2005
PSP Launch Postmortem: A Tale of Two Titles
by Aaron Ondek  
Programming  

GDC 2005
Puzzle Pirates: Lessons From an Indie MMOG
by Daniel James (Three Rings)
Production  

GDC 2005
Raising the Bar on In-Game Animation
by Jeremy Cantor  
Visual Arts  

GDC 2005
Real-time 3D Movies in Resident Evil 4 (English Language)
by Yoshiaki Hirabayashi  
Visual Arts  

GDC 2005
Recreating the LAN Party Online: The Networking and Social Infrastructur...
by Bart House  
Programming - Japanese

GDC 2005
Rolling the Dice?The Risks and Rewards of Developing Katamari Damacy
by Keita Takahashi  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
SCREAM: A Users Perspective
by David Murrant  
Audio  

GDC 2005
Scripting and Sims2: Coding the Psychology of Little People
by Jake Simpson  
Programming  

GDC 2005
SingStar: Tapping the Mass Market Through Smart Licensing and Design
by Sergio Pimentel (SCEE-Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
Production  

GDC 2005
Sixty Minute MBA
by Scott Corley (Red Mercury, LLC)
Business and Legal  

GDC 2005
Spider-man 2 DS Launch: Double the Screens! Half the Dev Cycle
by Jan-Erik Steel (Vicarious Visions)
Programming  

GDC 2005
Storytelling Across Genres: BioWare's Perspective
by Greg Zeschuk  
Production  

GDC 2005
Strategies and Techniques for Real-Time Shaders
by Adam Pletcher (Volition, Inc.)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2005
Strike Teams: Cross Discipline Saviors
by Starr Long  
Production  

GDC 2005
Talk Dirty to Me: VO for Leisure Suit Larry
by D. Chadd Portwine  
Audio  

GDC 2005
Techniques for Fighting Repetition in Game Audio
by Scott Selfon (Microsoft Corporation)
Audio  

GDC 2005
The Age of Empires 3 Graphics Engine
by Michael Bean  
Programming  

GDC 2005
The Bottom Line on Licensing
by Dan Rogers (Interactive Studio Management)
Business and Legal  

GDC 2005
The BREW Bag of Tricks
by Guido Henkel (G3 Studios)
Programming  

GDC 2005
The CTOs Talk
by Chris Satchell (Microsoft Corporation)
Programming  

GDC 2005
The Death of 3-in-a-Row: A Brave New Casual Game World
by Geoff Graber  
Business and Legal  

GDC 2005
The Early Months of Spider-Man 2: Using Preproduction to Invent Gameplay
by Jamie Fristrom  
Production  

GDC 2005
The Economics of a Next-Gen Game
by Kathy Schoback  
Business and Legal  

GDC 2005
The Future of Content (English Language)
by Will Wright (Stupid Fun Club)
Game Design  

GDC 2005
The Future of Content (Japanese Language)
by Will Wright (Stupid Fun Club)
Game Design  

GDC 2005
The Importance of Eyes: You Can't Mocap a Soul
by Ed Hooks (Acting for Animators)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2005
The Japanese Game Industry: Past, Present, and Future (English Language)
by Kenzo Tsujimoto  
Vision  

GDC 2005
The Near Future of Media Distribution (Japanese Language)
by Masaya Matsuura (NanaOn-sha)
Business and Legal  

GDC 2005
The Negotiation
by Lee Jacobson (Midway Home Entertainment Inc.)
Business and Legal  

GDC 2005
The Next Best Thing to Being There: Creating Ambience and Immersion in G...
by Julian Kwasneski (Bay Area Sound, Inc.)
Audio  

GDC 2005
The Picture Worth a Thousand Bugs: A System for Rigging Complex Game Mis...
by Bruce Oberg  
Programming  

GDC 2005
The Portable Revolution: How Handheld Game Developers Can Win
by Karthik Bala (VICARIOUS VISIONS)
Business and Legal  

GDC 2005
The Race to a Blockbuster Console RTS: If At First You Don't Succeed...
by Tim Train  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
The Road to Victory: Procedural Modeling for EA Sports NASCAR Thunder
by Wesley Grandmont III  
Visual Arts  

GDC 2005
The State of the Mobile Games Industry
by Derrick Morton  
Audio  

GDC 2005
Tone Reproduction in Real-Time Rendering Environments
by Sumanta Pattanaik  
Programming  

GDC 2005
Top Ten Directors of Technology List
by Rich Moore  
Production  

GDC 2005
Under the Hood of Motionbuilder: Secrets of Maximum Performance
by Marc-Andre Guindon  
Visual Arts  

GDC 2005
Understanding the Player: Natural Language Processing for Games
by Andrew Stern  
Programming  

GDC 2005
Using a Goal/Action Architecture to Support Modularity and Long-Term Mem...
by Marc Atkin  
Programming  

GDC 2005
Virtual Humans: Using Advanced AI to Create Characters that Think, Talk ...
by Patrick Kenny  
Programming  

GDC 2005
What About Flash? Can You Really Make Games With It?
by Scott Bilas  
Programming  

GDC 2005
What Makes Music for Games "Music for Games"?
by Peter McConnell  
Audio  

GDC 2005
Why Isn?t the Game Industry Making Interactive Stories?
by Neil Young  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Why We Play Games Together: The People Factor
by Nicole Lazzaro  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
Why You Should Have Paid Attention in Multivariable Calculus
by Chris Hecker  
Programming  

GDC 2005
Wielding Copyright: An Introduction to IP Protection for Game Developers
by S. Gregory Boyd (Davis & Gilbert LLP)
Business and Legal  

GDC 2005
Wiring Narrative into Play: a Practical Primer (English Language)
by Hal Barwood  
Game Design  

GDC 2005
You're Looking for What? Fuzzy Searches and Tag Databases
by Chris Carollo  
Programming