{"id":114110,"date":"2020-06-12T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/364706"},"modified":"2020-06-12T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T17:33:00","slug":"wednesday-is-your-last-day-to-register-early-for-gdc-summer-at-a-discounted-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/12\/wednesday-is-your-last-day-to-register-early-for-gdc-summer-at-a-discounted-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday is your last day to register early for GDC Summer at a discounted rate!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a quick reminder today that the early registration period for August’s all-digital GDC Summer<\/a> event ends Wednesday,<\/strong> \u200bJune 17th at 11:59 PM Pacific<\/strong>, so conference organizers encourage anyone interested in attending to register now<\/a> at a discounted rate!<\/p>\n

This is one of the best opportunities to save money on your pass to GDC Summer, which takes place August 4th through 6th in a new, completely online format that will be accessible to our global audience of game developers.<\/p>\n

This new, all-digital GDC event will offer a smorgasbord of the same high-quality game development lectures, panels, and tutorials that GDC attendees are accustomed to, and the GDC Summer schedule<\/a> is already filling up with great content.<\/p>\n

In a GDC Summer Programming track<\/a> talk on “Physical Animation in ‘Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order<\/em>‘<\/a>“, for example, Respawn’s Bartlomiej Waszak will show you how Fallen Order<\/em>‘s physical animation system improves motion fluidity, smooths out transitions and provides a nuanced character performance.<\/p>\n

Waszak will provide practical examples of hero traversal mechanics, stormtrooper death performances, and the companion droid BD-1. He’ll also share several solutions for blending physics with target animations, discuss the control parameters and tradeoffs associated with each technique, and show implementations achieved using Unreal Engine 4 and PhysX.<\/p>\n

And in a Production & Team Management<\/a> talk on “Diversify Your Kingdom: A Toolkit for More Women in Leadership<\/a>” King senior producer Sabrina Carmona will show you how King has worked to remove barriers keeping women from leadership roles in games via recruitment best practices and a tailored development program for women leaders.<\/p>\n

By broadening the pool and diversifying leaders for the future, Carmona will reveal how King has tried to create a culture that is inclusive to everyone and integrates D&I into core people processes, removing barriers preventing the hiring of diverse candidates and the development of women into leading, influential roles.<\/p>\n

Plus, veteran composer Wilbert Roget will be presenting a GDC Summer Audio track<\/a> talk on “A Bloody Symphony of Characters: Music and Leitmotiv in ‘Mortal Kombat 11<\/em><\/a>‘” in which he’ll walk you through the process of writing and developing these unique character themes.<\/p>\n

Roget is an award-winning composer, and those who attend his virtual talk can expect to walk away with tips and advice on effectively using leitmotivs in your own work. You’ll also get a clear breakdown of the differences between leitmotivic and thematic melody, and learn the contextual advantages of diverse leitmotivs and signature sounds over thematic orchestral melodies when scoring for cinematic games. <\/p>\n

And of course, King’s Lucien “Yen-Chu” Chen will present “Blockers: Analyzing Difficulty Drivers in Candy Crush Games<\/em><\/a>“, a new method of analyzing blockers in match-3 games which creates a common language for designers.<\/p>\n

Part of the GDC Summer Design track<\/a>, this talk promises to teach you how this method is used to create a new set of stats for blockers that can used as a common design language across all of King’s studios. The new set of stats helps designers, artists, producers, developers, and even players to better understand a blocker’s behavior, and Chen will show you how it also helps King design better blockers. <\/p>\n

This talk promises practical, actionable advice on designing games in the hyper-popular match-3 genre, and you can reserve your seat to attend it and many more at a discounted rate when you register for GDC Summer<\/a> by Wednesday, June 17th<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

For more details on GDC Summer, scheduled to take place virtually August 4th through the 6th, visit the show’s official website<\/a>, or subscribe to regular updates via Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, or RSS<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Just a quick reminder today that the early registration period for August’s all-digital GDC Summer event ends Wednesday, \u200bJune 17th at 11:59 PM Pacific, so conference organizers encourage anyone interested in attending to register now at a discounted rate! This is one of the best opportunities to save money on your pass to GDC Summer, which takes place August 4th through 6th in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}