Organizers of the 2009 Game Developers Conference have extended early registration for the March 23rd-27th San Francisco-based event to Tuesday, February 17th due to public demand, with 30 percent discounts now only available until the end of today.
The extension gives interested attendees more time to sign up for the 2009 edition of the world's leading game industry conference, which includes a multitude of discipline-specific lecture tracks, focused sub-market summits, major keynotes, award shows, and more to attend this year.
Game Developers Conference, which is run by Think Services (as is this website), has been running a
weblog covering the major GDC news this year, which includes the latest information on the Moscone Center-located conference.
Major recent announcements include major keynotes
from Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima, with his GDC debut 'Solid Game Design: Making the ‘Impossible’ Possible', and
from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, with a lecture named 'Discovering New Development Opportunities'.
In addition, organizers have profiled each of the individual Tutorials and Summits on the
GDC website. These Summits, which take place on the Monday and Tuesday of GDC, include standalone events devoted to AI, casual games, mobile games, game outsourcing, education, independent games, serious games, localization, and online worlds.
The main GDC event takes place from Wednesday to Friday, and includes major three-day tracks regarding audio, business and management, game design, production, programming, and visual arts. In hundreds of lectures, major developers from all the year's big games (from
LittleBigPlanet through
Gears Of War 2 and
Fable II) will discuss the art and science of game creation.
On the Wednesday night of GDC, the flagship
Independent Games Festival Awards and
Game Developers Choice Awards, honoring the best titles of the year, will take place. Other major events at the show include the Independent Games Festival Pavilion, located on the Expo Show Floor, which will also have exhibits from major tools companies and game publishers.
Early registration savings for the 2009 Game Developers Conference end at midnight PDT on Tuesday, February 17th, and more information about registration and content is available at the
official GDC website.
