GDC Floor To Double in Size for 2007 25
Yahoo! is reporting that, in the race to claim E3's crown, the Game Developer's Conference has announced there will be more than twice the space on the show floor next year. From the article: "When GDC was last in San Francisco in 2005, the show occupied the three floors of Moscone West. For GDC 07, the organizers reserved both Moscone West and Moscone North. With the Moscone West show floor virtually sold out, the organizers have now additionally secured the keynote hall in Moscone South in order to convert Moscone North into a second dedicated show floor. This will allow the GDC to accommodate the voluminous requests coming in for exhibition space and to include fresh exhibitor opportunities, such as the all-new Game Demo Theater." With PAX, GDC, GenCon, Leipzig, and others all lining up to be 'the next E3', is it too early to place bets? Will one event reign supreme, or is the E3 cake going to be shared by all these groups from now on?
Why? (Score:3, Funny)
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GDC is not E3 (Score:4, Informative)
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-Rick
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we are expo vendors and have been for a few years (very small booth) - the expo is pretty much the 'ugly duckling' of the entire GDC. The najority of GDC is about presentations & sessions, the expo component is a very minor sideshow, however large the conference floor is.
I think that CMP is trying to improve the visibility of the expo to try and drive more people there - the expo is very small, traffic-wise, compared to any of the other events. While the conference / sessions ar
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You just made the toolchain and middleware vendors cry. WTG.
The Orange Shirt Guys (Score:2)
With this increase in show floor and conference rooms, I think it's safe to say the amount of orange shirts is going t
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Incidentally, showcasing Spore at GDC rather than E3 or anywhere else was a stroke of PR genius. It got all the right people worked up about the game's core dynamics so all the other people go
corinthian cake (Score:1)
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E3 1990s (Score:2, Insightful)
It used to be a big thing.. it's not anymore, and won't ever be.
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None of them (Score:2)
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GDC is for GAME DEVELOPERS. There are as many lectures and talks and so on which serve the purposes of mapping out the course of game development as there are silly little demos on games. Journalists come in because they would throw a fit if it was totally closed, but also because they offer some good
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Flexibility (Score:1)
One year, Rockstar announces "Rockstar Games Presents: Pinball" during PAX, another year they release more details at GDC. It'll make their schedules more flexible.
booth babes (Score:1)
Cos-players? (Score:2)