The Recreation Builders Convention (GDC) 2024 attracted 30,000 registered attendees for 5 days of classes and networking alternatives.
Greater than 1,000 audio system led 730 classes, workshops, and roundtable discussions this yr. In the meantime, greater than 300 video games firms had cubicles on the present ground.
GDC 2024 additionally launched a number of new initiatives: the GDC Journey Collectively program for networking, a Recreation Historical past Gallery showcasing video games from marginalised builders, sunflower stickers for attendees with invisible disabilities, and the GDC Begin-Up program for younger firms.
PocketGamer.biz was out on the occasion – and you may anticipate extra interviews from the present over the subsequent few weeks. You may also take a look at our GDC 2024 takeaways article, which takes a take a look at the convention’s key traits.
GDC returns subsequent yr!
Subsequent yr, GDC will return to the Moscone Middle from Monday, March seventeenth to Friday, March twenty first, 2025. A name for submissions will open this summer time.
“GDC exists to offer builders an area to satisfy, community and be taught,” stated GDC occasion director Stephenie Hawkins. “The necessity for that connection has by no means been extra pressing.
“In gentle of rising generative AI applied sciences, layoffs and evolving working situations, the Recreation Builders Convention will proceed to supply builders with the important thing understandings and relationships to forge their method ahead.”
In addition to GDC, Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco additionally befell on March 18th and nineteenth, with greater than 1,000 attendees from over 500 firms heading to the present.
