2005 GDC Europe Announced

Gamasutra has the happy news that Europe will host a Game Developer's Conference this year, in late August. The event is to be held in London, and will be sponsored primarily by The Independent Games Developers Association. From the article: "The GDCE conference program builds upon the Future Vision theme, unveiled at the 2005 Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco this past March, and will feature three days of lectures, keynotes, panels, tutorials and roundtable discussions. Specific details of speakers will be announced in the near future on the official GDC Europe website."

Comments

Europe? Cool

[spacepirate09]

I have a gamer friend who lives in England. I'll have to see if he's going to check it out.

Re:Europe? Cool

[lachlan76]

You know the conference is for game *DEVELOPERS* don't you?

question

[Umbral Blot]

Does anyone know exactly what "Future Vision theme" is?

Odd choice of date

[samael]

This happens one week after Edinburgh International Games Festival - http://www.eief.co.uk/

Seeing as the big names are going to that, will they also go to another conference shortly afterwards?

Re:Odd choice of date

[Anonymous Coward]

Big names?

I see MS, Sony and Nintendo - surely at any games event - and what else? Edge? Women in Games? Tiga?

I hadn't even heard of this before just now, and I get spammed for every conference going. Maybe EIEF will compete more effectively with GDCE if they have a PR machine?

Re:Odd choice of date

[samael]

Well, it was packed out last year and the year before. And Edge seems to advertise it pretty well too. Certainly the people I know in the games industry seem to be pretty well informed of its existence.