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Article	Author	Description
Advanced Dialogue Techniques for Games March 9 1:09 PM	Mike Lewis	David Freeman presents an action-packed hour of tips for writing better game dialogue
Agile Development March 9 0:36 PM	Mike Lewis	This roundtable took a hard look at the "good, bad, and ugly" of agile development methodologies as applied to games
Microsoft Game Developer Day: DirectX Futures March 9 1:10 AM	Graham Rhodes	Summary of Chas Boyd's lecture in the Microsoft Tutorial at the Game Developer's Conference 2008
Sharing Code March 9 0:35 AM	Graham Rhodes	Summary of day 3 of this roundtable discussion at the Game Developer's Conference 2008
CRYSIS Next-Gen Effects March 8 11:10 PM	Graham Rhodes	Summary of Tiago Sousa's lecture at the Game Developer's Conference 2008
Engaging the User March 8 3:23 PM	Mike Lewis	Blurring the lines between game interfaces and game worlds
Conflict Resolution Without Combat March 8 2:06 PM	Mike Lewis	Roundtable on innovating new ways to design game conflicts
Studies of Threading Successes in Popular PC Games and Engines March 8 2:05 PM	Mike Lewis	A comprehensive tutorial examining techniques used for multithreading and parallel processing in modern PC games
Playing to Lose March 8 8:26 AM	Mike Lewis	Balancing the need for challenging gameplay and conquerable AI
Queensland Games March 7 6:38 PM	Drew Sikora	I sit down for a chat with a developer from Krome Studios and two Queensland government officials to discuss the game development environment in this part of Australia
Splash Damage: From Amateur to Triple-A in Five Years (Notes) March 5 3:13 AM	Drew Sikora	Paul Wedgwood, owner of Splash Damage and Lead Game Designer on the award-winning ENEMY TERRITORY QUAKE WARS and WOLFENSTEIN ENEMY TERRITORY games, presents a counter-intuitive guide for start-ups with big ideas; sneaking through the back-door and become an award-winning AAA developer in under five years.
Building a Successful Production Process March 4 10:16 PM	Drew Sikora	While developing RATCHET & CLANK: SIZE MATTERS, High Impact Games had the rare opportunity to draw upon the experience of many veteran developers and work out a production pipeline from scratch. Working on a first project for a new studio created the perfect acid test for determining what was efficient and what needed improvement. This presentation discusses the creation of RATCHET & CLANK for PSP and SECRET AGENT CLANK, also for the PSP.
Microsoft Developers Day - Performance Tools Update – David Cook March 4 6:45 PM	Sean Kent	This session covered features of PIX from the various releases over this year (since the last GDC).
Notes from the Game Design Rants March 4 3:35 AM	Ian Overgard	Game designers saying mildly naughty things.
The Inter-Species Game Design Challenge March 4 2:15 AM	Graham Rhodes	Summary of the annual Game Design Challenge contest at the GDC 2008
Procedural Data Generation in FAR CRY 2 March 4 0:40 AM	Graham Rhodes	Summary of Dominic Guay's lecture @ the Game Developer's Conference 2008
MMO Economy Interview with Eyjolfur Gudmundsson, Lead Economist, CCP March 3 4:06 PM	Sande Chen	Eyjolfur Gudmundsson talks about EVE Online's economy and how to approach designing economies for MMOs
A PORTAL Postmortem: Integrating Writing and Design March 3 1:59 AM	Kelly Murdock	A standing room only session presented by Kim Swift and Erik Wolpaw of Valve
Fable 2 - The Big Three Features Revealed March 3 1:31 AM	Kelly Murdock	Peter Molyneux shows off the design concepts behind Fable 2.
Interview with Umbra at the Game Developer’s Conference 2008 March 3 1:09 AM	Graham Rhodes	A short interview with this provider of middleware for real-time occlusion culling
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