The organizers of Game Developers Conference 2007 have reminded prospective registrants that Wednesday January 31st is the last day of early, reduced registration for
the conference, which takes place in San Francisco from March 5th to the 9th.
This year's GDC is confirmed as having
two major keynotes, featuring Sony's Phil Harrison, the President of Worldwide Studios for the PS3 creator, on "Game 3.0: Developing and Creating for the 3rd Age of Video Games", and Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto making a rare Western appearance to talk about "A Creative Vision" and Nintendo's plans.
Some of the highlights of the main conference itself, which runs from Wednesday March 7th to Friday March 9th, include
recently announced lectures from Warren Spector on 'The Future Of Storytelling', talks on
Alan Wake's tools, the physics in
MotorStorm, and making
The Sims for Wii.
Other top talks still include Tsutomu Kouno presenting a postmortem of
LocoRoco,
Castlevania's Koji 'Iga' Igarashi discussing the 'Light and Darkness of 2D Gaming', and Id boss Todd Hollenshead talking on games and the piracy problem, as well as Ubisoft producer Jade Raymond on
Assassin's Creed, Rare discussing
Viva Pinata's unique graphics shaders, and
Elite Beat Agents' Keiichi Yano on making the cult DS title. Also featured are lectures by
Killer 7's Goichi 'Suda51' Suda, Lionhead's Peter Molyneux, and a rare postmortem of Square Enix's
Final Fantasy XII.
Special events and other highlights at GDC 2007 (which is created by the CMP Game Group, as is Gamasutra) include the Game Developers Choice Awards on the Wednesday night, two separate expo floors including a multitude of game-related companies and international pavilions, as well as the Independent Games Festival Pavilion, the Suite Night event, and many associated events.
Also noted on the
GDC schedule at a glance are the subconferences running on the Monday and Tuesday of GDC week, including
GDC Mobile (featuring a keynote from Digital Chocolate's Trip Hawkins), the
Serious Games Summit GDC (with a keynote from Square Enix's Ichiro Otobe), as well as the
Casual Games Summit and the new
Independent Games Summit (sporting a keynote featuring Llamasoft's Jeff Minter).
Further information on new lectures and existing highlights is available on the
GDC news weblog, and the
GDC pass options page has full information on pass prices and savings before January 31st.
