GDC 2011 Syndication Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:09:18 +0000 support@gamedev.net (GameDev.net) IP.Blog 60 http://www.gamedev.net/blog/984/entry-2249608-modular-component-based-ai-systems/ component-based architectures.

Although the term has gained popularity in recent years, and most people in the room expressed at least some familiarity with the...]]> Wed, 09 Mar 2011 05:52:00 +0000 http://www.gamedev.net/blog/984/entry-2249608-modular-component-based-ai-systems/ http://www.gamedev.net/blog/984/entry-2249602-the-circle-of-gdc-life/
[list][*]Count down the weeks, then days, then hours before GDC[*]I fail to sleep properly the night before flying out[*]Something goes wrong with the flight...]]> Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:01:00 +0000 http://www.gamedev.net/blog/984/entry-2249602-the-circle-of-gdc-life/ http://www.gamedev.net/blog/984/entry-2249580-igda-business-and-legal-sig-official/ A group of IGDA industry professionals and attorneys gathered yesterday at GDC to formalize the new Business and Legal SIG. The meeting was moderated by Dan Rosenthal; approximately 20-30 IGDA members and industry professionals were in attendance. Topics included goals for the new SIG, events and organizational structure. In addition to... Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:06:00 +0000 http://www.gamedev.net/blog/984/entry-2249580-igda-business-and-legal-sig-official/ http://www.gamedev.net/blog/984/entry-2249579-keep-it-together-encouraging-cooperative-behavior-during-co-op-play/ Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:40:00 +0000 http://www.gamedev.net/blog/984/entry-2249579-keep-it-together-encouraging-cooperative-behavior-during-co-op-play/ http://www.gamedev.net/blog/984/entry-2249578-gdc-2011-day-3/ Day 3 started, much like Day 2, at 5:00am, because for some reason I'm under the false assumption that I should continue waking up at my normal time all week.
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No that's not a grammatical error or a joke. It's a play on the...]]> Thu, 03 Mar 2011 07:13:00 +0000 http://www.gamedev.net/blog/984/entry-2249577-electric-elephants-and-communism-clint-hocking-on-how-games-mean/ http://www.gamedev.net/blog/984/entry-2249575-the-failure-workshop/ Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:54:00 +0000 http://www.gamedev.net/blog/984/entry-2249575-the-failure-workshop/ http://www.gamedev.net/blog/984/entry-2249574-ai-roundtable/ Mike Lewis and Dave Mark. These guys were part of the crew running the full AI summit, which I unfortunately missed. Roundtables are something I discovered late at...]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:26:00 +0000 http://www.gamedev.net/blog/984/entry-2249574-ai-roundtable/ http://www.gamedev.net/blog/984/entry-2249573-spu-based-deferred-shading-in-battlefield-3/ Christina Coffin's talk on SPU based deferred shading in Battlefield 3. I hear they use DX11 compute shader heavily on the PC side, so it'll be interesting to see how they leverage the SPUs.

* Previous DICE games were forward rendered, just a few...]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:23:00 +0000 http://www.gamedev.net/blog/984/entry-2249573-spu-based-deferred-shading-in-battlefield-3/ http://www.gamedev.net/blog/984/entry-2249572-gdc-2011-keynote-video-games-turn-25/ Satoru Iwata started his keynote by highlighting the worries of developers in the development community concerned with job security.

[color=#000000][font=Arial][size=2]"You are the center of the video game universe," he said...]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:44:00 +0000 http://www.gamedev.net/blog/984/entry-2249572-gdc-2011-keynote-video-games-turn-25/