GDC 2016
"Is that Me?" Identity Confusion & Narrative VR Challenges
by Eric "Giz" Gewirtz (Seismic Games)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
"It's Just Emulation!" - The Challenge of Selling Old Games
by Frank Cifaldi (Digital Eclipse)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
"Life is Strange" Case Study: Using Interactive Storytelling and Game De...
by Michel Koch (Dontnod Entertainment)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
#1ReasonToBe
by Rami Ismail (Vlambeer)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
'Adventure Capitalist' Postmortem or: How Hyper Hippo Learned To Stop Wo...
by James Gwertzman (PlayFab, Inc.)
Programming  

GDC 2016
'Assassin's Creed Syndicate: London' Wasn't Built in a Day
by Damien Bastian (Ubisoft)
Programming  

GDC 2016
'Borderlands': The Pre-Sequel on Android - AAA Porting with NVIDIA CodeW...
by Jeffrey Kiel (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2016
'DomiNations' Year One: History Games As Live Service
by Tim Train (Big Huge Games 2.0)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2016
'Dragon Age Inquisition': Trespasser - Building to an Emotional Theme
by John Epler (BioWare Edmonton)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
'Fallout 4's' Modular Level Design
by Joel Burgess (Bethesda Game Studios)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
'Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns'- Iterative MMO Development at Scale
by Sonya Wolfram (ArenaNet, Inc.)
Production  

GDC 2016
'King of Thieves': Designing a F2P Game that's Different
by Eugene Yailenko (ZeptoLab)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2016
'Ori and the Blind Forest': Sonic Polish Through Distributed Development
by Gareth Coker (Gareth Coker Music)
Audio  

GDC 2016
'SimCity BuildIt' - What Did I Learn as a Game Designer?
by Petri Ikonen (Electronic Arts)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2016
'Simon's Slots' Postmortem
by Jesse Janosov (Blue Crystal Labs, Inc.)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2016
'The Armello' Postmortem: A Journey of Spirit & Peril
by Trent Kusters (League of Geeks)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
'The Walking Dead: No Man's Land' Postmortem
by Sulka Haro (Next Games)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2016
'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt' Theory and Practice of Gamer-Centric Brand De...
by Marcin Iwinski (CD Projekt RED)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
'World of Tanks': Disrupting the Console Space with F2P
by TJ Wagner (Wargaming)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
10 Ways to Make Your Game More Diverse
by Meg Jayanth (Freelance)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
16th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards

Special Event  

GDC 2016
18th Annual Independent Games Festival Awards

Special Event  

GDC 2016
5 Mistakes by Good Teams That Produce Bad Free to Play Games
by Don Daglow (4thRing Inc.)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
8 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box
by Mark Ferrari (Terrible Toybox)
Design  

GDC 2016
8 Keys to a Long Career in Games
by Don Daglow (4thRing Inc.)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
8 Ways to Succeed with Broadcasters (The Data May Surprise You!)
by Kathy Astromoff (Twitch)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
A Course About Game Balance
by Ian Schreiber (Rochester Institute of Technology)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2016
A Game That Listens - The Audio of INSIDE
by Martin Stig Andersen (Independent)
Audio  

GDC 2016
A Stitch in Time: Metaplanning for AI with Unusual Time Controls
by Christopher Hazard (Hazardous Software Inc.)
AI Summit  

GDC 2016
A Torch in the Dark: Using Creative Direction to Light 'The Darkest Dung...
by Chris Bourassa (Red Hook Studios)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
AAA Virtual Orchestration on an Indie Budget
by Wilbert Roget (RogetMusic)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Action Games Without Borders: Making Platinum-Quality Games For The World
by Atsushi Inaba (PlatinumGames, Inc.)
Design  

GDC 2016
Adapting Event Design for Casual F2P Titles
by Tim Nixon (Runaway)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2016
Advanced Ambient Occlusion Methods for Modern Games (presented by NVIDIA)
by Andrei Tatarinov (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Advanced Environmental Storytelling in 'Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon'
by Randy Smith (Tiger Style)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
Advanced Geometrically Correct Shadows for Modern Game Engines (presente...
by Jon Story (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Advanced Graphics Techniques Tutorial Day: Advanced Techniques and Optim...
by Timothy Lottes (AMD)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Advanced Graphics Techniques Tutorial Day: Culling at the Speed of Light...
by Dmitry Zhdan (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Advanced Graphics Techniques Tutorial Day: Developing The Northlight Eng...
by Ville Timonen (Remedy Games)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Advanced Graphics Techniques Tutorial Day: Object Space Rendering in Dir...
by Dan Baker (Oxide Games)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Advanced Graphics Techniques Tutorial Day: Practical DirectX 12 - Progr...
by Gareth Thomas (AMD)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Advanced Graphics Techniques Tutorial Day: Rendering 'Hitman' with Direc...
by Jonas Meyer (Io Interactive)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Advanced Rendering with DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 (presented by NVIDIA)
by Holger Gruen (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Advanced VR Rendering Performance
by Alex Vlachos (Valve)
Programming  

GDC 2016
AI Behavior Editing and Debugging in 'Tom Clancy's The Division'
by Jonas Gillberg (Massive Entertainment - a Ubisoft Studio)
AI Summit  

GDC 2016
AI For Generated Worlds
by Damian Isla (The Molasses Flood)
AI Summit  

GDC 2016
AI Pre-Mortem: How to Approach Your AI Problems
by Damian Isla (The Molasses Flood)
AI Summit  

GDC 2016
All Choice No Consequence: Efficiently Branching Narrative
by Cassie Phillipps (Pocket Gems / FailCon)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
Alphabear Postmortem
by David Edery (Spry Fox)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2016
Amazon Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift Building Blocks to Create Great G...
by Eric Schenk (Amazon Lumberyard)
Programming  

GDC 2016
An Architect's Guide to Creating Expressive Game Environments
by Claris Cyarron (Silverstring Media)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
An End-to-End Approach to Physically Based Rendering
by Wes McDermott (ALLEGORITHMIC)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Anatomy of Great Voice-Over: A Casting & Recording Primer
by Andrea Toyias (Blizzard Entertainment)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Android TV Gaming: Designing (and Programming) for Success on Marshmallo...
by Lars Bishop (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Angry Birds 2 - Next Gen Audio in Only 10 Megabytes
by Jonatan Crafoord (The Brain)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Animating Quadruped Characters in The 'Flame in The Flood'
by Gwen Frey (The Molasses Flood)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Animating With Math
by Natalie Burke (Limitless Ltd.)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Animation Bootcamp: 'Rainworld' Animation Process
by Joar Jakobsson (Video Cult)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Animation Bootcamp: Animation Microtalks
by Gwen Frey (The Molasses Flood)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Animation Bootcamp: Embracing Animation Complexity in EA UFC 2 Through P...
by Geoff Harrower (EA Canada)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Animation Bootcamp: Motion Matching: The Future of Games Animation...Today
by Kristjan Zadziuk (Ubisoft Toronto)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Animation Bootcamp: Overwatch: How A Hero Is Mei-d
by Tim Borrelli (5th Cell)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Animation Bootcamp: Skylander's Cinematics - Creating Narrative Driven C...
by John Paul Rhinemiller (Vicarious Visions)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Animation Bootcamp: The 'Animate' Button - Mocap Automation Techniques a...
by Dan Lowe (Ubisoft Montreal)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Animation Bootcamp: Tricks of the Trade
by Amy Drobeck (5th Cell Media)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Applied Game Theory: The Case of 'Posthuman'
by Gordon Calleja (Institute of Digital Games)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2016
Art Direction Bootcamp: 'Guerrilla Games' Approach to Asset Production
by Maarten Van Der Gaag (Guerrilla Amsterdam)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Art Direction Bootcamp: 360 Art Direction
by Tramell Isaac (Boss Key Productions)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Art Direction Bootcamp: Artist Career Challenges and Goals : From AAA Te...
by Cecil Kim (Section Studios)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Art Direction Bootcamp: Building a Visual Threshold
by Stuart Macdonald (Playraven)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Art Direction Bootcamp: Studio Art Direction: What (I think) I've Learne...
by Adam Murguia (Riot Games)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Art Direction Bootcamp: The Future of Lighting
by Jeremy Vickery (Ubisoft Quebec)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Art Direction: Graphic Design is Key
by Liam Wong (Ubisoft Montreal)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Art of Blues and Bullets: Dominating 256 Shades of Grey
by Daniel Candil (A Crowd of Monsters)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Artist Career Challenges and Goals: From AAA team to a Start Up
by Cecil Kim (Section Studios)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Audio Bootcamp: Beyond Middleware: Thinking Like a Programmer
by Ben Houge (Berklee College of Music)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Audio Bootcamp: Composing Virtually, Sounding Real
by Laura Karpman (Independent)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Audio Bootcamp: Constructing a Creative Climate for VO
by Morla Gorrondona (Independent)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Audio Bootcamp: Intro and Casual GameDev Overview
by Damian Kastbauer (PopCap Games)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Audio Bootcamp: Shifting Cycles of Game Audio
by Debbie DeForest-Gonzalez (Technicolor)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Audio Bootcamp: Using Proactive Audio to Push Impact and Immersion
by Eric Robinson (Sonic Bloom)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Audio Bootcamp: Using Proactive Audio to Push Impact and Immersion
by Eric Robinson (Sonic Bloom)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Audio Bootcamp: Why I Rejected You - Observations from a Hiring Manager
by Jesse Harlin (Dunderpate Music, LLC)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Audio for AAA Virtual Reality Experiences
by Simon Gumbleton (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Audio Mastering for Interactive Entertainment
by Garry Taylor (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Audio-Driven Game Design
by Per Anders Ostblad (University of Skovde / Nifty Sound)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Autodesk presents Custom Tools that Power Eidos-Montreal's Narrative-Dri...
by Jean-Normand Bucci (Eidos)
Production  

GDC 2016
Autodesk presents Warhammer: The End Times - Vermintide a Technical Post...
by Rikard Blomberg (Fatshark)
Production  

GDC 2016
Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose - Building a Hyper-Engaged Team
by Alex Mole (Criterion Games)
Production  

GDC 2016
Awesome Video Game Data 2016
by Geoffrey Zatkin (EEDAR)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Balancing Accessibility Against Depth in 'Assault Android Cactus'
by Sanatana Mishra (Witch Beam)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Be Spiky: A Decade of New Ideas
by Jamie Cheng (Klei Entertainment)
Design  

GDC 2016
Beat it. A Retrospective of 'Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit'
by James Svensson (Criterion Games)
Design  

GDC 2016
Been There, Done That: Industry Women Share Experiences and Advice
by Kim McAuliffe (gamesto.love)
Game Career Seminar  

GDC 2016
Beginning with the Word: Building a Game Writing Program
by Lee Sheldon (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2016
Behind the Scenes of Cinematic Dialogues in 'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt'
by Piotr Tomsinski (CD Projekt RED)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Beyond Ageism: Designing Meaningful Games for an Older Audience
by Bob De Schutter (Miami University)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
Big Data's Role in Competitive 'Insurgency' from Early Access to eSport
by Edward Schneider (Ithaca College)
eSports Summit  

GDC 2016
Blending Autonomy and Control: Creating NPCs for 'Tom Clancy's The Divis...
by Philip Dunstan (Massive Entertainment, a Ubisoft Studio)
AI Summit  

GDC 2016
Blurring the Line Between Community & Studio
by Johan Andersson (Paradox Interactive)
Production  

GDC 2016
Breaking Through the Mobile Clutter: Marketing Your iOS Game
by Dana Trebella (Spoke & Wheel Strategy)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Building a Low-Fragmentation Memory System for 64-bit Games
by Aaron MacDougall (Sony London Studio)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Building and Managing a Crowdfunding Community
by Gordon Walton (Art & Craft Entertainment)
Community Management Summit  

GDC 2016
Building Cloud-Connected Games Using Lumberyard's Cloud Canvas (presente...
by James Clarendon (Amazon Lumberyard)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
Building Higher Level Functionality for your Games using AWS (Presented ...
by Dhruv Thukral (Amazon Web Services)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Building Obduction: Cyan's Custom UE4 Art Tools
by Eric Anderson (Cyan, Inc.)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Building Safer Spaces in Game Education
by Bonnie Ruberg (University of Southern California)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2016
Built for Broadcasting: The Coming Era of Game Design for Interactive Li...
by Brooke Van Dusen (Twitch)
Design  

GDC 2016
Cage Match! Reddit vs Forums
by Tony Jones (Daybreak Game Company)
Community Management Summit  

GDC 2016
Capturing and Visualizing RealTime GPU Performance in 'Mortal Kombat X'
by Adisak Pochanayon (Netherrealm Studios)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Casting for Video Games: Unraveling the Dark Art
by Michael Csurics (The Brightskull Entertainment Group)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Changing with the Seasons: Rotating Content in Your Interactive Platform
by Blair Ethington (CrowdStar)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Character Wrangling: Managing Large Casts with Documentation and Design
by Leah Miller (Freelance)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
Choice, Consequence and Complicity
by Alexis Kennedy (Failbetter Games)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
Classic Game Postmortem: 'Ms. Pac-Man'
by Steve Golson (Independent)
Design  

GDC 2016
Classic Game Postmortem: Diablo
by David Brevik (Gazillion Entertainment)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Classic Game Postmortem: Rez
by Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Enhance Games)
Design  

GDC 2016
Co-Development: Open and Agile Game Development
by Starr Long (Portalarium)
Design  

GDC 2016
Collaboration, Not Competition: Growing Your Community Through Studio Pa...
by Alex Hayter (Torn Banner Studios)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Community Engagement at the Intersection of Games and News
by Lindsay Grace (American University Game Lab)
Community Management Summit  

GDC 2016
Composing Music for VR Games: 'Adventure Time' Case Study
by Erik Desiderio (Erik Desiderio Music)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Conquering Community Toxicity like Genghis Khan
by Tony Jones (Daybreak Game Company)
Community Management Summit  

GDC 2016
Crackpot AI Devs: Unproven Game AI Techniques that Might Possibly Work
by Rez Graham (Independent)
AI Summit  

GDC 2016
Crafting AI for Epic Boss Battles in 'Warframe'
by Daniel Brewer (Digital Extremes)
AI Summit  

GDC 2016
Crisis and Opportunity: Communities in Good Times and Bad
by Janet Ebsen (Kongregate, Inc.)
Community Management Summit  

GDC 2016
Critical Hit - Safer Space Lessons From an Inclusive Games Collaboratory
by Ida Marie Toft (Concordia University)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
Crowdsourcing: Communities as a Force For Good
by Matthew Lee (IGDA Serious Games SIG)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
D3D12 & Vulkan: Lessons Learned
by Matthaeus Chajdas (AMD)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Darkest Dungeon: A Design Postmortem
by Tyler Sigman (Red Hook Studios)
Design  

GDC 2016
Dealing with Cheating: Five Years of Evolving Approaches
by Nick van Vugt (Uken Games)
Community Management Summit  

GDC 2016
Deciding What to Make: A Greenlight Process for Commercial Indies
by Adam Saltsman (Finji)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Delivering Console Car Visuals on Mobile With 'CSR Racing 2'
by Liam Murphy (NaturalMotion)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Depression-Proof Studio Culture: A How-To For Mental Wellness
by Russ Pitts (Take This, Inc.)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
Design In Detail: Controlling Land Sliders
by Luke Muscat (Prettygreat)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Designing a VR renderer and engine for modern CPU/GPUs using MaxPlay's G...
by Matt Shaw (MaxPlay)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Designing AI for Competitive Games
by Derek Neal (Maximum Games)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Designing Asymmetric Gameplay For 'Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes'
by Ben Kane (Steel Crate Games)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Designing Discomfort
by Dietrich Squinkifer (Independent)
Design  

GDC 2016
Designing for One to One Million: 'The Choice' Chamber Postmortem
by Michael Molinari (Studio Bean)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Designing the Anti-Platformer: 'Mushroom 11' Puzzle Systems
by Itay Keren (Untame)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
DevOps for Mobile: It's Not Just for Enterprise Anymore
by Tim Hargreaves (Electronic Arts)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Distilling A Franchise: A Lara Croft GO Postmortem
by Antoine Routon (Square Enix Montreal)
Design  

GDC 2016
Don't Fear the Queer: Audiences are Ready!
by Heidi McDonald (IThrive Games)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
Don't Spend Millions: 'Rival Kingdoms' Launch Defined Our New Marketing ...
by Simon Hade (Space Ape Games)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2016
Dynamic Stories for Dynamic Games: Six Ways to Give Each Player a Uniqu...
by Richard Rouse III (Paranoid Productions)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
Education Soapbox
by Ira Fay (CEO, Fay Games)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2016
Effective Testing for Free-to-Play Games
by Emily Greer (Kongregate, Inc.)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Elements of an Engaging Sound Mix
by Kevin Regamey (Power Up Audio)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Emotional Labor and Diversity
by Jeremy (Dalberg) Preacher (Metafilter)
Community Management Summit  

GDC 2016
Empowering Content Creators
by Stephen Broadley (Sony London Studio)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Empowering the Player: Level Design in N++
by Mare Sheppard (Metanet Software, Inc.)
Design  

GDC 2016
Emptying the Trash: A Last Look at TRS-80 Game Designs
by Jim McGinley (Bigpants)
Design  

GDC 2016
Engineering Decisions Behind World of Tanks Server
by Maksim Baryshnikov (Wargaming)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Engines of Play: How Player Motivation Changes Over Time
by Jason VandenBerghe (Ubisoft)
Design  

GDC 2016
Evaluating Game Experiments: A More Robust Approach for Freemium Games
by Anshul Dhawan (Zynga)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Everyone at this Conference is a Fraud
by DB Cooper (DB Cooper VO, LLC.)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Everyone Can Do PR - The 5 Pillars & Pitfalls of Indie Games PR
by Thomas Reisenegger (ICO Partners)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Everyone's Silent Enemy: Shame and Vulnerability
by Renee Nejo (3 Turn Productions)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
Expand your audience with the Steam Controller (presented by Valve Softw...
by Pierre-Loup Griffais (Valve Software)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Experimental Gameplay Workshop
by Tracy Fullerton (USC)
Design  

GDC 2016
Explorers in VR: Walking the Edge of Nowhere
by Brian Allgeier (Insomniac Games)
Design  

GDC 2016
F2P 101: Microtalks
by Steve Meretzky (GSN Games)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2016
Failure Workshop
by Joe Mirabello (Terrible Posture Games)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Fast, Flexible, Physically-Based Volumetric Light Scattering (presented ...
by Nathan Hoobler (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Fighting Latency on Call of Duty Black Ops III
by Benjamin Goyette (Activision)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Finding the Right Branching Narrative Structure For Your RPG
by Liam Esler (Game Developers' Association of Australia)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
Fitting the World: A Biomechanical Approach to Foot IK
by Clifford Roche (Ubisoft)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Fixed Point Iteration - A Simple, Efficient and Useful Solver
by Huw Bowles (Studio Gobo)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Flash Backward: 30 Years of Making Games
by Luke Muscat (Prettygreat)
Special Event  

GDC 2016
Flying by the Seat of Our Pants: GALAK-Z
by Raj Joshi (17-BIT)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Foley in 'Alien: Isolation' & 'Gears of War: Ultimate' Edition
by Steve Whetman (Audiobeast)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Forget Protagonists: Writing NPCs with Agency for '80 Days' and Beyond
by Meg Jayanth (Freelance)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
Forget the "Trends": Let's Get Real About Crowdfunding
by Leonie Manshanden (IndieDevKit)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Forging The River in "The Flame in The Flood"
by Damian Isla (The Molasses Flood)
Programming  

GDC 2016
FRAMED: A Recipe for Critical Success
by Joshua Boggs (Loveshack)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Free Reign: Building Visual Effects for Player Agency in 'Just Cause 3'
by Fred Hooper (Avalanche Studios)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
From 'Total War' to 'Assassin's Creed': Music for Mobile Games
by Winifred Phillips (Generations Productions LLC)
Audio  

GDC 2016
From a One Person Shop to Indie Dev to AAA: What it Really Takes to Grow...
by Mike Hines (Amazon)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
From Idea to Appstore: Building Successful Cross Platform Games With Yac...
by Jesse Freeman (Amazon)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
From PS4 to 1.44MB Floppy: Porting 'Retro City Rampage' to MS-DOS
by Brian Provinciano (Vblank Entertainment)
Programming  

GDC 2016
From the Lab Bench: Real-Time Rendering Advances from NVIDIA Research (p...
by Marco Salvi (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Fund, Find, Franchise: Exploring the New Age of Developer-Driven Marketing
by Rami Ismail (Vlambeer)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Funding Case Studies: Real Life Stories of Getting All the Monies
by Jason Della Rocca (Execution Labs)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
G.A.N.G. Demo Derby: Music
by Paul Lipson (Formosa Interactive)
Audio  

GDC 2016
G.A.N.G. Demo Derby: Sound Design
by Becky Allen (PopCap/Electronic Arts)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Game Architecture and Components Systems in Lumberyard (presented by Ama...
by Bill Merrill (Amazon Games)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Game Design and Mind Control in SUPERHOT
by Piotr Iwanicki (SUPERHOT)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Game Engines in Game Education: Thinking Inside the Tool Box?
by Sebastian Deterding (University of York)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2016
Games Accelerators for the Arts, Not for Monetization
by Tommy Palm (Resolution Games)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
Games for Change: Turn to Face the Strange
by Colleen Macklin (Parsons School of Design)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
Gaming, Gambling or Addiction? F2P Scientific and Legal Perspectives
by Ryan Black (McMillan, LLP.)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2016
GDC Microtalks 2016: Everyone Loves to Play
by Richard Lemarchand (University of Southern California)
Design  

GDC 2016
Getting Inquisitive About the AI of 'Dragon Age Inquisition'
by Sebastian Hanlon (BioWare)
AI Summit  

GDC 2016
Getting to Greenlight: Designing a Game Fit for (a) King
by Tristan Clark (King)
Design  

GDC 2016
Give life to your 3D art with MDL and NVIDIA Iray in Substance Painter (...
by Sebastien Deguy (ALLEGORITHMIC)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Global Illumination in 'Tom Clancy's The Division'
by Nikolay Stefanov (Massive Entertainment - a Ubisoft Studio)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Gods and Dumps: Attribute Tuning in 'Pillars of Eternity'
by Josh Sawyer (Obsidian Entertainment)
Design  

GDC 2016
Great Management of Technical Leads
by Mike Acton (Insomniac Games)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Have Fun Storming the Castle! Siege Battle AI in 'Total War: Warhammer'
by Andre Arsenault (Creative Assembly)
AI Summit  

GDC 2016
HDR Rendering in Lumberyard (presented by Amazon Lumberyard)
by Hao Chen (Amazon Lumberyard)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Healthy Habits of a Successful Game Maker
by Lauren Scott (2K Games - Hangar 13)
Game Career Seminar  

GDC 2016
Hedgehog Noises in VR - Audio for Oculus Story Studio's 'Henry'
by Thomas Bible (Thomas Bible Audio)
Audio  

GDC 2016
High-performance, Low-Overhead Rendering with OpenGL and Vulkan (present...
by Mathias Schott (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2016
History and Game Design
by Chris King (Paradox Interactive)
Design  

GDC 2016
History Shaping Design: Gender Roles As Shown In Centuries of Game Design
by Julia Keren Detar (Untame)
Design  

GDC 2016
How & Why to Write an Autopatcher for Your Game
by Robby Zinchak (Archive Entertainment)
Programming  

GDC 2016
How Game Mechanics Helped Players Embody 19 Year Old Nina
by Nina Freeman (Fullbright)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
How I Teach Game Design: The User-Customizable Game
by Eric Zimmerman (Independent)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2016
How Strong Soft-Skills Help GameDevs - A 15 Year Veteran
by Leo Zuniga (Vicarious Visions)
Game Career Seminar  

GDC 2016
How to Almost Bankrupt Your Game Company
by Brandon Sheffield (Necrosoft Games)
Game Career Seminar  

GDC 2016
How to Build a Remote Team for Better Happiness
by Ian Wang (Fox Cub)
Production  

GDC 2016
How to Build an Indie Game Co-Working Space
by Dylan Jones (Starcadia)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
How to Get Your F2P Game Greenlit In 2016
by Demetri Detsaridis (Experiment 7)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2016
How to Price Your In-App Purchases
by AJ Glasser (Facebook)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2016
How We Introduced UX to Epic Games' Production Pipeline
by Celia Hodent (Epic Games)
Design  

GDC 2016
How We Won GameDev by Rolling Our Own Tech
by Mihai Gosa (KillHouse Games)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Identifying Causal Factors in Churn
by Alan Burke (Activision)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Idle Chatter: What We Can Learn From Self-Playing Games
by Anthony Pecorella (Kongregate)
Design  

GDC 2016
IK Rig: Procedural Pose Animation
by Alexander Bereznyak (Ubisoft)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Immediate Game Analytics with AWS: Building a Dashboard from your Game's...
by Steve Johnson (Amazon)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Immoral Women: And Why Your Game Needs More of Them
by Katherine Cross (City University of New York)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
Improving Geometry Culling for 'Deus Ex: Mankind Divided' (presented by ...
by Nicolas Trudel (Eidos-Montral)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Improving Playtesting Through Workshops Focusing on Exploring, Refining,...
by Michael Christel (Carnegie Mellon University)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2016
Includification: How to Make Your Game(s) More Inclusive to Millions
by Mark Barlet (AbleGamers)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
Indie DevOps and Analytics: Building Big Games with Tiny Teams
by John Bergman (Guild Software, Inc.)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Indie Guide to Leveraging Industry Partnerships (presented by NVIDIA)
by Mark Smith (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Indie Soapbox
by Kimberly Voll (Riot Games)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Influencers: The Opportunity and Responsibility
by Saralyn Smith (Blizzard Entertainment)
Community Management Summit  

GDC 2016
Ink: The Narrative Scripting Language Behind '80 Days' and 'Sorcery!'
by Joseph Humfrey (inkle, Ltd.)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Intelligent Music For Games
by Baldur Baldursson (CCP Games)
Audio  

GDC 2016
IP Creation Through Design Thinking
by Feng Zhu (Feng Zhu Design)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
It Takes a Village: Growing Vibrant Game Developer Communities
by Elliott Mitchell (Vermont Digital Arts)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
It's Not in the Writer's Manual: A Q&A Session for New Writers
by Richard Rouse III (Paranoid Productions)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
Jedi Mind Tricks: Cognitive Biases in Game Development
by Daniel Menard (Double Stallion Games)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
Juggling Chainsaws: Original IP vs. Work for Hire
by Amy Dallas (ClutchPlay Games, LLC.)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Keeping Level Designers in the Zone Through Level Editor Design
by Robin-Yann Storm (Independent)
Design  

GDC 2016
Killer Portfolio or Portfolio Killer: Part 1 - Advice from Industry Artists
by Greg Foertsch (Firaxis Games)
Game Career Seminar  

GDC 2016
King proudly presents Defold! (presented by King)
by Thomas Hartwig (King)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Knights, Fist Fights, Lasers & Catacombs: Subversive Diversity to Improv...
by Shawn Alexander Allen (NuChallenger)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Launching Students Well: A Panel About Incubators and Other Tools Post-G...
by Drew Davidson (Entertainment Technology Center)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2016
Lead the Way! A Practical Guide to Team Leadership
by Oliver Franzke (Double Fine Productions)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Leading a Creative Life in the Land of "No"
by Bob Bates (Independent)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
Learn About Defold The New Cross-Platform Engine from King (presented b...
by Ragnar Svensson (Defold)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Level Design Workshop: 360 Approach for Open World Mission Design
by Philippe Bergeron (Ubisoft Montreal)
Design  

GDC 2016
Level Design Workshop: Adding Life to your Level
by Seth Rosen (Hangar 13)
Design  

GDC 2016
Level Design Workshop: Architecture in Level Design
by Claire Hosking (Independent)
Design  

GDC 2016
Level Design Workshop: Building Firewatch in Unity
by Jake Rodkin (Campo Santo)
Design  

GDC 2016
Level Design Workshop: Level Design in Impossible Geometry
by William Chyr (Independent)
Design  

GDC 2016
Level Design Workshop: Solving Puzzle Design
by Jolie Menzel (Ubisoft San Francisco)
Design  

GDC 2016
Level Design Workshop: The Illusion of Choice
by Jim Brown (Epic Games)
Design  

GDC 2016
Level Design Workshop: What Level Designers Can Bring to VR
by Lee Perry (Independent)
Design  

GDC 2016
Lighting the City of Glass - Rendering 'Mirror's Edge: Catalyst'
by Fabien Christin (EA DICE)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Lightning Talks (Presented by Google)
by Shannon Woods (Chrome)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Live Demonstration of Character and Toy Design for 'Skylanders'
by Kevin Dobler (Vicarious Visions)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Live eSport-Analytics: Solving the Informational Fairness Conundrum
by Lukas N.P. Egger (Dojo Madness)
eSports Summit  

GDC 2016
Low Complexity, High Fidelity - INSIDE Rendering
by Mikkel Gjoel (Playdead)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Made Out Of Meat
by Tyriq Plummer (FourbitFriday)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Magical Realism: The Art of Creating Everest in Your Living Room with VR...
by Kjartan Pierre Emilsson (Slfar Studios)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Making "Big Data" Work for 'Halo': A Case Study
by Tom Mathews (Microsoft, 343 Industries)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Making 'Her Story' - Telling a Story Using The Player's Imagination
by Sam Barlow (Independent)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
Making Moves: Designing Spartan Abilities for 'Halo 5: Guardians'
by Ryan Darcey (343 Industries)
Design  

GDC 2016
Making Release Day Just Another Monday
by Conor Crowley (Jagex Ltd)
Production  

GDC 2016
Making the World of Firewatch
by Jane Ng (Campo Santo)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Managing Audio Performance: Lessons Learned from the Production of 'Halo...
by Chase Thompson (Microsoft 343 Industries)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Manning the Oars or Raising the Sail?
by Sveinn Kjarval (CCP Games)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Marketing Fundamentals for New Developers
by Michael D. Cox (Crows Crows Crows)
Game Career Seminar  

GDC 2016
Math for Game Programmers: Balancing TCGs With Algebra, Not Magic
by Ian Schreiber (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Math for Game Programmers: Building A Better Jump
by Kyle Pittman (Minor Key Games)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Math for Game Programmers: Differential Coordinates and Laplacians
by Nicholas Vining (Gaslamp Games)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Math for Game Programmers: Implicit Function Raytracing
by Chris Birke (Secant Astronomy)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Math for Game Programmers: Indexing and Iterating Design Space Permutations
by Nathan Sturtevant (University of Denver / NS Software)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Math for Game Programmers: Juicing Your Cameras With Math
by Squirrel Eiserloh (SMU Guildhall)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Math for Game Programmers: Random Tidbits: Use Chance to Enhance Fun!
by Dr. Cat (Dragon's Eye Productions)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Math for Game Programmers: Rotational Joint Limits in Quaternion Space
by Gino van den Bergen (Dtecta)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Math for Game Programmers: Voxel Surfing
by Michael Austin (Hidden Path Entertainment)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Maximizing Critique: Improving Communication for Everyone Involved in Cr...
by Jeff Hesser (Secret Portal)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Melee It On Me: A Grassroots Effort to Mobilize a Gaming Community
by Daniel Lee (Melee It On Me)
eSports Summit  

GDC 2016
Mercury Rising: The 'Killer Queen' Community
by Joshua DeBonis (BumbleBear Games)
eSports Summit  

GDC 2016
Micro Postmortems
by Sun Park (Turtle Cream)
Game Career Seminar  

GDC 2016
Mind Your Step: Avoiding 3 Common Pitfalls in AI Development
by Jan Mueller (Insomniac Games)
AI Summit  

GDC 2016
Mixed Resolution Rendering in 'Skylanders: SuperChargers'
by Padraic Hennessy (Vicarious Visions)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Mobile Audio: Design, Optimization & Implementation
by Richard Ludlow (Hexany Audio)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Mobile Devices and Disabled Gamers
by Ian Hamilton (Ian Hamilton Design & Consultancy)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Mobile Devices and Disabled Gamers
by Ian Hamilton (Ian Hamilton Design & Consultancy)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
Mobile Game Designer Notebook
by Nicholas Fortugno (Playmatics)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Mobile Is The New Core Gaming
by Lee Perry (Independent)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Mobile Momentum and New Tools of the Trade (Presented by Google)
by Morgan Dollard (Google Play Games)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Money For Nothing and Your Games For Free
by Daniel Greenberg (Media Rez, LLC.)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Motion Matching and The Road to Next-Gen Animation
by Simon Clavet (Ubisoft Montreal)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Music Design: Lessons from 'The Last of Us' and More
by Jonathan Mayer (SCEA)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Music To Their Ears: Best Practices for Developer Relations
by Dave Bisceglia (The Tap Lab)
Audio  

GDC 2016
New Reality - Product Launch of Autodesk Memento (presented by Autodesk)
by Tatjana Dzambazova (Autodesk)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
New Reality - Product Launch of Autodesk Memento (presented by Autodesk)
by Tatjana Dzambazova (Autodesk)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Not Your Typical Women in Games Panel
by Gordon Walton (Art & Craft Entertainment)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
Nuts and Bolts: Modular AI From the Ground Up
by Troy Humphreys (Turtle Rock Studios)
AI Summit  

GDC 2016
On All Fours: Creating Realistic Quadruped Motion
by Tobias Karlsson (Microsoft)
AI Summit  

GDC 2016
Once A Cheater Always A Cheater: Gotta Catch 'Em All
by Eugen Harton (Bohemia Interactive a.s.)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Open Production With Sunless Sea: Kickstarter, Early Access and After
by Alexis Kennedy (Failbetter Games)
Design  

GDC 2016
Optimizing Our Mobile Store Listing
by Christian Calderon (Ketchapp)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Optimizing the Graphics Pipeline With Compute
by Graham Wihlidal (Frostbite Engine/Electronic Arts)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Outside the Studio Walls: MicroTalk Exploration of Non-Audio Ideas & Exp...
by Karen Collins (Veemix)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Overcoming Impostor Syndrome: Creating Inclusive Environments for Women
by Jess Loeb (GSN Games)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
Overwatch - The Elusive Goal: Play by Sound
by Scott Lawlor (Blizzard Entertainment)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Photogrammetry and 'Star Wars Battlefront'
by Kenneth Brown (DICE)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Polishing the Boots - Designing 'Downwell' Around One Key Mechanic
by Ojiro Fumoto (moppin)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Poly Bridge and Social Media: A Love Story
by Patrick Corrieri (Dry Cactus)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
PR & Marketing Lessons Learned from 'Goat Simulator'
by Armin Ibrisagic (Coffee Stain Studios)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Practical Development for Vulkan (presented by Valve Software)
by Dean Sekulic (Croteam)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Practical Law 101 For Indie Developers: Not Scary Edition
by Christopher Reid (Law Offices of Christopher G. Reid)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Practices in Procedural Generation
by Tanya Short (Kitfox Games)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Precognitive Interactive Music: Yes You Can!
by Paul Lipson (Formosa Interactive)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Producer Bootcamp: Ch Ch Ch Ch Chang... Planning, Change & Risk
by Dr. Dave Raynard (Independent)
Production  

GDC 2016
Producer Bootcamp: Game Industry Overview and Economics: A Primer for Pr...
by William Dekle (Strategic Alternatives)
Production  

GDC 2016
Producer Bootcamp: How Saying 'No' Can Help You Make a Better Game
by Ruth Tomandl (Oculus Research)
Production  

GDC 2016
Producer Bootcamp: Producer Panel
by Jessica Brunelle (Ember Entertainment)
Production  

GDC 2016
Producer Bootcamp: Super Producers: Build Your Leadership and Make Great...
by Aaron Thibault (Gearbox Software)
Production  

GDC 2016
Production: Working at the Heart of the Team
by Grant Shonkwiler (Epic Games)
Production  

GDC 2016
Punching Up the Juice with Proactive Audio
by Eric Robinson (Sonic Bloom)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Putting the Teams at the Heart of the Development
by Helga Bjarnadottir (CCP Games)
Production  

GDC 2016
Quality is Worth Killing For
by Jonathan Dower (Supercell)
Production  

GDC 2016
Quick and Dirty: 2 Lightweight AI Architectures
by Rez Graham (Independent)
AI Summit  

GDC 2016
Quit Reinventing the Wheel: Six Concrete Suggestions for Improving Your ...
by Clara Fernandez Vara (New York University)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2016
Raid on Rise: Narrative Creation on 'Rise of The Tomb Raider'
by Rhianna Pratchett (Independent)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
Raise your Game with NVIDIA GeForce Tools (presented by NVIDIA)
by Jeffrey Kiel (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Rapid Idea Visualisation at Criterion Games
by Pete Lake (Criterion Games)
Production  

GDC 2016
Real-time BC6H Compression on GPU
by Krzysztof Narkowicz (Flying Wild Hog)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Real-time Procedural Percussion Scoring in 'Tomb Raider's' Stealth Combat
by Philip Lamperski (Crystal Dynamics)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Rendering 'Rainbow Six | Siege'
by Jalal Eddine El Mansouri (Ubisoft Montreal)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Rendering Faster and Better with NVIDIA GameWorks VR in UE4 (presented b...
by Cem Cebenoyan (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Restructuring a Warship at Full Steam
by Danny Volkov (Wargaming)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Ripple Effect: How Women-in-Games Initiatives Make a Difference
by Stephanie Fisher (York University)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
Rocket League: The Road From Cult Classic to Surprise Success
by Corey Davis (Psyonix)
Design  

GDC 2016
Rocking On: Harmonix, QA and 'Rock Band 4'
by Nate Stoddard (Harmonix Music Systems)
Production  

GDC 2016
Rolling Your Own Tech: The Engine Behind 'Door Kickers'
by Mihai Gosa (KillHouse Games)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Rules for Development (of People)
by Julie Farbaniec (Blizzard Entertainment)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Rules of the Game: Five More Techniques from Quite Inventive Designers
by Richard Rouse III (Paranoid Productions)
Design  

GDC 2016
Running a Women's eSports Tournament
by Stephanie Harvey (Counter Logic Gaming)
eSports Summit  

GDC 2016
Running Live: Many Games for a Long Time
by ChangKyu Song (Nexon)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Scale Session-based Multiplayer Games with Amazon GameLift (presented by...
by Chris Byskal (Amazon)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Sculpting a Gameplay Scripting Solution
by Mike Lewis (ArenaNet, LLC.)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Secret Sauce for Game Success (Presented by Google)
by Bob Meese (Google Play)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Security in gaming, how protecting your gamers can be as simple as 1.2.3...
by Simon Thorpe (Authy, a Twilio company)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Shipping Kills Studios: A Study of Indie Team Dynamics
by Danny Day (QCF Design)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Simulating the Race Day Experience: Mixing 'Forza Motorsport 6'
by Chase Combs (Turn 10 Studios)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Skill, Matchmaking, and Ranking Systems Design
by Josh Menke (Activision Publishing)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Skylanders 'SuperChargers': One Game, 22 Platforms
by Michael Bukowski (Vicarious Visions)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Slavic Adaptation of Music in 'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt'
by Marcin Przybylowicz (CD Projekt RED)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Social Impact: Leveraging Community for Monetization, UA and Design
by Dmitri Williams (Ninja Metrics)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2016
Soft Launch Best Practices: How, Why and Where to Soft-Launch Your Mobil...
by Oliver Kern (Mobilize)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2016
SOMA - Crafting Existential Dread
by Thomas Grip (Frictional Games)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Standing on The Shoulders of Giants - The Story Behind the Music and Sou...
by Gordy Haab (Gordy Haab Music, Inc.)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Storytellers of eSports
by TJ Huckabee (Independent)
eSports Summit  

GDC 2016
Storytelling Tools: Using Music & Sound Creatively
by Jason Graves (Independent)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Strasse Smarts: A Replicable Model for a Game Industry-centric Study Abr...
by Stephen Jacobs (RIT MAGIC Center and School of Interactive Games and Media)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2016
Supercharged! Vehicle Physics in 'Skylanders'
by Jan Erik Steel (Vicarious Visions)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Surrounded by 800lb Gorillas! Standing Up to the Competition (presented ...
by Tramell Isaac (Boss Key Productions)
Design  

GDC 2016
Taking AIM: Top 10 App Install Marketing Trends (presented by AdColony)
by Bryan Buskas (AdColony)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Taking Flight Again: Planning the Launch of Angry Birds 2
by Eric Seufert (Rovio)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Taking Minecraft to School: Re-Engineering the Game for Learning
by Michelle Dauphiny Becker (Microsoft)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
Taking Monster Hunter Worldwide
by Andrew Alfonso (Capcom)
Production  

GDC 2016
Tales From a Crowdsourced Game Design
by David Osborne (Jagex)
Design  

GDC 2016
Tales From the Trenches: AI Disaster Stories
by Rez Graham (Independent)
AI Summit  

GDC 2016
Taming the Jaguar: x86 Optimization at Insomniac Games
by Andreas Fredriksson (Insomniac Games)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Teaching Analog Game Design
by Ira Fay (CEO, Fay Games)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2016
Teaching Designers to Code: Tools and Principles
by Margaret Moser (University of Southern California)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2016
Teaching Games With Games 3: Another Six Exercises in Play
by Mia Consalvo (Concordia University)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2016
Teaching the Social Science-y Bits of Games
by Edward Castronova (Indiana University)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2016
Tech Toolbox
by Jonatan Van Hove (Glitchnap)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Technical Art Culture of 'Uncharted 4'
by Andrew Maximov (Naughty Dog)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Technical Artist Bootcamp: Deploying and Maintaining a Unified Toolset W...
by Jeff Hanna (Volition)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Technical Artist Bootcamp: Honey, Where is My Wingsuit? - Building the J...
by Brian Venisky (Avalanche Studios)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Technical Artist Bootcamp: Let's Get Physical - Creative Solutions Throu...
by Robert Butterworth (United Front Games)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Technical Artist Bootcamp: Massively Scalable Pipeline Deployment
by Louai Abu-Osba (High 5 Games)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Technical Artist Bootcamp: Shaders 101: Foundational Shader Concepts for...
by Ben Cloward (BioWare)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Temporal Reprojection Anti-Aliasing in INSIDE
by Lasse Jon Fuglsang Pedersen (Playdead)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Tenacious Design and The Interface of 'Destiny'
by David Candland (Bungie)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
Texturing Uncharted 4: a matter of Substance (presented by ALLEGORITHMIC)
by Brad Smith (Naughty Dog)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
The 'Vainglory' Story - 5 Lessons From Building a Touch Screen eSport
by Kristian Segerstrale (Super Evil Megacorp)
eSports Summit  

GDC 2016
The 10 Biggest F-ups From DrinkBox Studios
by Chris McQuinn (DrinkBox Studios)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
The Art of 'Severed': Making a 2D/3D Hybrid
by Augusto Quijano (DrinkBox Studios)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
The Art of Destruction in 'Rainbow Six: Siege'
by Julien L'Heureux (Ubisoft)
Programming  

GDC 2016
The Current State of Muslim Representation in Video Games
by Imad Khan (The Daily Dot)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
The Design of Everyday Games
by Christina Wodtke (CCA)
Design  

GDC 2016
The Environment Pipeline of 'CSR Racing 2'
by Scott Harber (NaturalMotion Games)
Programming  

GDC 2016
The Erosion of Software Patent Protection
by Edwin Steussy (Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP.)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
The Exposition Burden
by Jennifer Hepler (Kognito Interactive)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
The Future of Lighting
by Jeremy Vickery (Ubisoft Quebec)
Visual Arts  

GDC 2016
THE GAME DESIGN CHALLENGE: The Thirty-Year Game
by Eric Zimmerman (Independent)
Design  

GDC 2016
The Game Outcomes Project: How Teamwork, Leadership and Culture Drive Re...
by Paul Tozour (Mothership Entertainment)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
The Gamer Motivation Profile: Model and Findings
by Nick Yee (Quantic Foundry)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
The Gamer's Brain, Part 2: UX of Onboarding and Player Engagement
by Celia Hodent (Epic Games)
Design  

GDC 2016
The Gothic Horror Music of 'Bloodborne'
by Peter Scaturro (Sony Computer Entertainment Americas)
Audio  

GDC 2016
The Lives of Others: How NPCs Can Increase Player Empathy
by CJ Kershner (Polyhedron Productions)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
The Mobile Traps: How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes Driving Mobile G...
by Michael Mace (UserTesting)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2016
The Music of Evolve: Composing For Multi-Player
by Jason Graves (Independent)
Audio  

GDC 2016
The Narrative Innovation Showcase
by Richard Rouse III (Paranoid Productions)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
The No Hit Wonder - 11 Years and Still Going. How?
by Jake Birkett (Grey Alien Games)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
The Past, Present and Future for League of Legends Esports
by Dustin Beck (Riot Games)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
The Power of Fanbase: Growing Your Audience with Twitch (Presented by Am...
by Garnett Lee (Amazon)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
The Professional Gamer Experience - A Perspective on eSports from Former...
by Dennis Fong (Raptr)
eSports Summit  

GDC 2016
The Shapes in Your Story: Narrative Mapping Frameworks
by Jay Taylor-Laird (Northeastern University)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
The Sound of Excitement: Creating Audio for Game Advertising
by Michael Rubino (Mike Rubino Music)
Audio  

GDC 2016
The Successful Paradox of Combining Business Strategy with Nonconforming...
by Fredrik Wester (Paradox Interactive)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
The Tower of Want
by Ethan Levy (N3twork)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2016
The Unsatisfied Mind
by Joshua Boggs (Loveshack)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
The World is Listening... But Games Aren't Talking
by Michael John (UC Santa Cruz)
Advocacy  

GDC 2016
The Year in Free to Play Games
by Steve Meretzky (GSN Games)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2016
There and Back Again: Finding Your Place in the Games Industry
by Caryl Shaw (Amazon Game Services)
Game Career Seminar  

GDC 2016
Thinking and Writing in Different Languages
by Fasih Sayin (Crytek)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
Three New Ways to Monetize and How Backflip Studios Uses Them; Challengi...
by Bryan Mashinter (Backflip Studios)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Three Statistical Tests Every Game Developer Should Know
by Elan Ruskin (Insomniac Games)
Programming  

GDC 2016
To Buy or Not to Buy
by Michele Airoldi (King)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Turing Tantrums: AI Devs Rant!!
by Rez Graham (Independent)
AI Summit  

GDC 2016
Twenty Years, Twenty Lessons
by Mark Rosewater (Wizards of the Coast)
Design  

GDC 2016
Understanding Engagement in the Rapidly Expanding Gaming Universe
by Patrick Walker (EEDAR)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Unified Telemetry, Building an Infrastructure for Big Data in Games Deve...
by Maurizio De Pascale (Ubisoft Montreal)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Videogames Are Better Than Sports: A Thought- Experimental Journey into ...
by Tim Rogers (Action Button Entertainment)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
VR: Game Design at the Frontier
by Kimberly Voll (Riot Games)
Design  

GDC 2016
Vulkan and NVIDIA The Essentials (presented by NVIDIA)
by Tristan Lorach (NVIDIA)
Programming  

GDC 2016
Walking a Mile in an Indie's Shoes
by Ramine Darabiha (Storm8)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
Waltzing with Blades: The Music of 'Assassin's Creed Syndicate'
by Austin Wintory (Independent)
Audio  

GDC 2016
We're Being Unreasonable: Understanding and Avoiding Bias in Teams
by Thomas Handley (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
Weird Game Dev: Unusual Roles and How to Get Them
by Patrick Miller (Radiant Entertainment)
Game Career Seminar  

GDC 2016
What Are You Driving At? Vehicle AI in 'Assassin's Creed Syndicate'
by Eric Martel (Ubisoft)
AI Summit  

GDC 2016
What Do We Mean When We Say "Indiepocalypse"?
by Armin Ibrisagic (Coffee Stain Studios)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
What Kind of Game Should I Make? (presented by Chillingo)
by Levi Buchanan (Chillingo)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2016
What To Do When Your Game's Being Pirated in Asia
by Mary Min (SEWORKS)
Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit  

GDC 2016
What to Expect When You're Expecting a Soft Launch
by Adam Telfer (Wooga GmbH)
Business, Marketing & Management  

GDC 2016
What Wikipedia Doesn't Know Can Hurt You: Writer Research Skills
by Chris Hepler (Seasun, Inc.)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
Who Owns What and Why? Student IP, Faculty IP, and Game Design Programs
by Ira Fay (CEO, Fay Games)
GDC Education Summit  

GDC 2016
Why 'Shards of War' Started eSports in Beta
by Al Yang (Bigpoint GmbH)
eSports Summit  

GDC 2016
Why Game Audio is Not a Solved Problem
by Guy Somberg (Blizzard Entertainment)
Audio  

GDC 2016
Writing 'Nothing': Storytelling with Unsaid Words and Unreliable Narrators
by Mata Haggis (NHTV University, Breda & Matazone Games)
Game Narrative Summit  

GDC 2016
You Don't Need a F-ing Publisher
by Nigel Lowrie (Devolver Digital)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
You Hear That? Team Engagement for Audio
by Rev. Dr. Bradley D. Meyer (Sucker Punch Productions)
Audio  

GDC 2016
You're Not Alone: A Backend Technology Solution Survey
by James Gwertzman (PlayFab, Inc.)
Free to Play Summit  

GDC 2016
Your Games WILL Change the World! It's Your Choice How
by Michael Block (Culture Shock Games, LLC.)
Independent Games Summit  

GDC 2016
[Continuous] Delivery Pipelines via Docker
by Josiah Kiehl (Riot Games)
Programming