GDC China Featuring Speakers From BioWare Austin, Carbine, Bigpoint
Date: 11-07-2011 Views:
AWESOME
Responses
Your Reaction?
GDC China is an annual event bringing together influential developers from around the world to share ideas, network, and inspire each other to further the game industry in the region. It is to be hold at the Shanghai Exhibition Center in Shanghai from Nov. 12th to Nov. 14th.
This year, the show's Main Conference will feature three primary tracks, covering Online Game Development & Business, Global Game Development, and Social Games, and two Summits on Indie Games and Mobile Games, respectively.
Recently, organizers have revealed three new sessions in the Online Games track, featuring speakers from BioWare Austin on merging casual and hardcore,WildStar developer Carbine on MMO production, and Bigpoint on its 3D web game Drakensang Online
BioWare Austin's Damion Schubert will host "Double-Coding: Making Online Games for Both the Casual and the Hardcore," which will examine how developers can straddle the line between two very different player demographics. Schubert will discuss the values held by both types of users, and will go over some strategies to convert casual players into online devotees.
The second new talk in the Online Games track is "Massively Multiplayer Game Production: From Tiny Teams to Giant Projects," featuring Turbine founder Jeremy Gaffney, now of WildStar developer Carbine Studios. Drawing from his extensive experience producing large-scale MMOs, Gaffney will detail the essential qualities of a good producer, and will offer numerous production tips related to online game development.
Rounding out this week's new sessions is Bigpoint chief games officer Philip Reisberger in "Trends and Challenges Facing the Next-gen 3D Web Games Like Drakensang Online." Reisberger will pick apart the studio's browser-based action RPG to offer insight on how to craft a robust 3D game on the web.
Just last week, show organizers unveiled three additional sessions, including a cloud-gaming focused talk from Microsoft, an Ubisoft postmortem on the Smurfs & Co Facebook game, and a breakdown of RPG math fromWizard101developer KingsIsle Entertainment.
For more details on these or other sessions at GDC China, please check out the show's official website.
