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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
Internal and Outsourcer Management of Tools and Pipelines March 3 1:08 AM	Kelly Murdock	A presentation on how outsourced resources where used at Volition, presented by Adam Pletcher and Brendan Hanna Holloway
An Interview with NVIDIA March 3 1:04 AM	Kelly Murdock	NVidia's Randy Fernando shows off their latest developer tools.
An Interview with 3DVIA March 2 11:57 PM	Kelly Murdock	3DVIA releases MP, a middleware component for defining behaviors for controlling gameplay.
A Look at Blade 3D March 2 5:46 PM	Ian Overgard	Blade 3D is an "integrated 3D game development system" that shows great promise.
Interview with Havok at the Game Developer's Conference 2008 March 2 5:11 AM	Graham Rhodes	Discussion of Havok's upgraded and new products, announced at GDC
Interview with Morten Iversen, ZeitGuyz March 1 8:02 PM	Sande Chen	Morten Iversen of ZeitGuyz describes his new IP, the steampunk-inspired Recoil: Retrograd
Structure Vs. Style March 1 7:39 PM	Graham Rhodes	Lecture given by Chris Hecker at the Game Developer's Conference 2008
Avatar Reality's Blue Mars March 1 6:52 PM	Kelly Murdock	First look at a new MMO that was built using the CryEngine 2.
An Interview with Allegorithmic March 1 6:32 PM	Kelly Murdock	Allegorithmic's Alexis Knouri offers a preview of Substance.
Environment Design in Halo 3 March 1 6:04 PM	Kelly Murdock	A session presented by Mike Zak of Bungie Studios
Pollinating the Universe: User-generated Content in Spore March 1 6:02 PM	Graham Rhodes	Lecture by Caryl Shaw of Maxis during the Game Developer's Conference 2008
Video Walkthrough March 1 1:49 PM	Sande Chen	walkthrough of the places at GDC
Interview with Per Rosendal, CEO of Guppyworks March 1 1:41 PM	Sande Chen	Video Interview with Guppyworks
Improving Quality Assurance March 1 10:59 AM	Mike Lewis	Pretty much what it says on the tin
Artificial Intelligence in Computer Games March 1 10:20 AM	Mike Lewis	A roundtable of AI developers from across the industry
Emotive Press Event February 29 9:46 PM	Drew Sikora	Check out the top of the line neural interface coming out at the end of this year for PC applications
IGDA VIP Luncheon February 29 9:29 PM	Drew Sikora	The annual event for volunteers of the International Game Developers Association
Serious Games Summit February 29 4:30 PM	Kevin Hawkins	An overview of sessions given at the Serious Games Summit at GDC 2008.
XNA Developers Day - Advanced Debugging in Managed Code – Matthew Picioccio February 29 4:09 PM	Sean Kent	A session that covered various debugginc capabilities of Visual Studio 2005, including attributes and visualizers that can simplify the debugging process immensly.
XNA Developers Day - XNA Game Studio 2.0 for Xbox LIVE Arcade – Mitch Walker February 29 4:07 PM	Sean Kent	This session provided an overview of the new extensions introduced for the XNA GS 2.0 for Xbox LIVE Arcade, a platform available to develop certified games for Xbox LIVE Arcade.
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