{"id":75956,"date":"2019-01-16T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/332397"},"modified":"2019-01-16T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T16:59:00","slug":"gdc-2019-will-host-a-classic-game-postmortem-of-paperboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/16\/gdc-2019-will-host-a-classic-game-postmortem-of-paperboy\/","title":{"rendered":"GDC 2019 will host a Classic Game Postmortem of Paperboy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Game Developers Conference 2019<\/a>\u00a0organizers are excited to announce that a game industry stalwart will be at the show in March in to give you a rare look at the development of a coin-op classic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

John Salwitz<\/strong>, a veteran game programmer who’s worked on\u00a0everything from Rampart\u00a0<\/em>to Klax\u00a0<\/em>to Medal of Honor<\/em>, will be at GDC 2019\u00a0in San Francisco the deliver a Classic Game Postmortem of Atari’s arcade hit\u00a0<\/a>Paperboy<\/a>!<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Salwitz helped co-create\u00a0Paperboy,\u00a0<\/em>and at GDC he’ll walk you through the design and development process that culminated in the creation of a modern classic. Expect to get an inside perspective on working at Atari, the nuts and bolts of arcade game design in the ’80s, and the untold story of developing a now-classic game.<\/p>\n

As always, this Classic Game Postmortem will be\u00a0an\u00a0hour-long <\/a>session<\/a>, and it’s just one of many fantastic classic game retrospectives on offer at this year’s show!<\/p>\n

There will also be a fantastic Classic Game Postmortem on the original\u00a0Lemmings<\/em><\/a>, presented by Lemmings\u00a0<\/em>co-creator Mike Dailly, as well as one on the traiblazing\u00a0real-time strategy game\u00a0<\/a>Command & Conquer<\/a> <\/em>from Westwood Studios cofounder Louis Castle!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Further details on these\u00a0talks and many more are available now on the\u00a0GDC 2019\u00a0Session Scheduler<\/a>. There you can begin to lay out your GDC 2019,\u00a0which takes\u00a0place March 18th through the 22nd\u00a0at the (newly renovated!) Moscone Center in San Francisco.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bring your team to GDC! Register a group of 10 or more and save 10 percent\u00a0on conference passes. Learn more\u00a0here<\/a>.\u200b<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

For more details on\u00a0GDC 2019\u00a0visit the show’s\u00a0official website<\/a>, or subscribe to regular updates via\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a>, or\u00a0RSS<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Game Developers Conference 2019\u00a0organizers are excited to announce that a game industry stalwart will be at the show in March in to give you a rare look at the development of a coin-op classic.\u00a0 John Salwitz, a veteran game programmer who’s worked on\u00a0everything from Rampart\u00a0to Klax\u00a0to Medal of Honor, will be at GDC 2019\u00a0in San […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75956","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\/75956","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=75956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}