I’m really looking forward to GDC this year, my fourth. My second GDC was in some ways a little bit of a disappointment, but the more I think about last year (my third), the more I realized I had a really good time and I know I will again this year.
As Darius recently posted, we’ll be kicking off the fun before we even land at SFO. We’re having our first “plane jam” on the way to GDC. We’ll be hacking away at a few games of ours during our plane flight with discrete (and small!) goals for what we can accomplish by the end of the flight. He lays out all the advantages in his Going to GDC Jam post. It should be really interesting to see if it turns out as well as we expect it will. We’re hoping others try the same concept as well!
Darius started a Twitter hashtag, #GoingToGDC, for those going to GDC to chat about what they’re up to. I made a Twitter list of my own so that we can see all of the chatter from people who’ve said they’re going to GDC this year. Hopefully people will find this useful.
Last night, we also created http://twitter.com/GameConfTweet, a joint Twitter account that we’ll use to live-Tweet from sessions and other noteworthy and stimulating conversations and goings ons at GDC this year, and at other game development conferences we go to from now on. Should be fun!