Pitching your game to a potential publisher is tricky business.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At GDC 2017, experienced game dev (and PlayStation expat) Brian Upton sought to make the process a little easier by efficiently running down a list of common mistakes devs make when they meet with publishers.<\/p>\n
Upton has heard hundreds of game pitches during his career, and in his talk he described\u00a0thirty annoying or counterproductive things that you should avoid if you want to make a great impression.\u00a0He also shared some insight into how publishers evaluate the games that are pitched to them, what they care about and what they don’t, and what you can do to present your own game in the best possible light.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was a quick and very informative talk, especially if you’re at all concerned about performing well at your next pitch meeting. Now, you can\u00a0watch Upton’s\u00a0talk for free via\u00a0the official GDC YouTube channel<\/a>!<\/p>\n In addition to this presentation, the\u00a0GDC Vault<\/a>\u00a0and its accompanying\u00a0YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent\u00a0Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC\u00a0already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via\u00a0a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the\u00a0GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>. Finally, current subscribers with access issues can\u00a0contact GDC Vault technical support<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gamasutra and GDC are sibling organizations under parent UBM Americas<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pitching your game to a potential publisher is tricky business.\u00a0 At GDC 2017, experienced game dev (and PlayStation expat) Brian Upton sought to make the process a little easier by efficiently running down a list of common mistakes devs make when they meet with publishers. Upton has heard hundreds of game pitches during his career, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4513","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\/4513","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=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}