2010 Call for Submissions
Overview | Guidelines
Overview Guidelines
The Game Developers Conference® Canada is the premier Canadian event for developers and business development professionals looking for best practices for managing established franchises, developing new global titles, or looking to take advantage of new distribution models. GDC Canada serves as a forum for developers interested in visual arts, business, production, design, and programming.
If you have an idea, issue, or problem you'd like to share with your colleagues, the board of advisors would like to hear from you by January 5, 2010.
Prior to submitting, please review the call for submissions guidelines.
Start the submission process here.
Submission Topics
Business & Production
The Business and Production Track looks at the game development process from the standpoint of running the business as well as subtle (and not so obvious) project nuances and offers proven strategies for the developer who needs to understand complex business and game production issues.
Visual Arts
The focus of game art is shifting from simply attaining the best possible production quality to exploring new ideas and art styles that allow a game to stand out from the competition.
Game Design
Creating compelling, immersive games requires understanding, visualizing, demonstrating, and tuning the interactions of an ever-increasing number of game tools and systems. While game designers need to understand and exploit the possibilities of new technologies they must also continue to master the traditional disciplines of drama, game play, and psychology.
The Game Design Track explores the challenges and ramifications of the interaction between new technologies and established techniques.
Programming
As new platforms emerge and existing platforms evolve, programmers face an ever increasing challenge to produce games that capture the attention of the public and the media.
The Programming Track focuses on these challenges and the opportunities presented by next and current generation development including: mature consoles, new handhelds, a highly competitive sales environment, and increased demand for very high production values in games.
iPhone
The iPhone track will highlight the best of iPhone development, with technical and design techniques as well as postmortems and case studies of business and marketing strategies behind successful iPhone game companies.
Digital Distribution
As new digital distribution channels on handheld consoles open up and new, more powerful products emerge particularly based around manufacturer-specific application stores digital distribution continues to change the game industry. Filled with hands-on information, case studies and debates, the Digital Distribution Track will cover both successful business strategies and the nuts and bolts of development to successfully digitally distribute your game.
Social & Casual
Few areas of our industry have moved as fast as the rise of socially connected gaming. Today we see that many of the most popular games in the world are played on social networking services such as Facebook, MySpace, and hi5. These games are capturing tens of millions of mainstream users, people who do not consider themselves gamers. At the same time, the idea of the casual game has changed and is engaging new audiences, moving mainstream brands into an increasingly connected world through the medium of games.
The Social and Casual covers the converging trends, bringing together leading thinkers and business people to provide the attendee a snapshot of the industry and where it is going. Attend to learn about the secrets of virality, the next generation of monetization, and the ways in which casual games are changing to meet the demands of an ever-growing audience.
