{"id":77589,"date":"2019-01-23T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/334884"},"modified":"2019-01-23T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:03:00","slug":"strap-in-for-a-panzer-dragoon-classic-game-postmortem-at-gdc-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/23\/strap-in-for-a-panzer-dragoon-classic-game-postmortem-at-gdc-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Strap in for a Panzer Dragoon Classic Game Postmortem at GDC 2019!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a deep and abiding interest in classic games, the\u00a0<em>Panzer Dragoon\u00a0<\/em>series, the Sega Saturn, or all of the above? Then\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com?_mc=blog_x_gdcsfr_le_x_gdcsf_x_x-GDC19\">Game Developers Conference 2019<\/a>\u00a0organizers have good news for you:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Panzer Dragoon\u00a0<\/em>designer Yukio Futatsugi and artist Kentaro Yoshida, two Japanese game industry veterans who now work together at Grounding, will be at GDC\u00a0in March to <a href=\"https:\/\/schedule.gdconf.com\/session\/classic-game-postmortem-panzer-dragoon-panzer-dragoon-zwei-and-panzer-dragoon-saga\/865146?_mc=blog_x_gdcsfr_le_x_gdcsf_x_x-GDC19\">discuss designing and developing\u00a0the\u00a0<em>Panzer Dragoon\u00a0<\/em>series<\/a> on Saturn!<\/p>\n<p>This is a very special <a href=\"https:\/\/schedule.gdconf.com\/session\/classic-game-postmortem-panzer-dragoon-panzer-dragoon-zwei-and-panzer-dragoon-saga\/865146?_mc=blog_x_gdcsfr_le_x_gdcsf_x_x-GDC19\">Classic Game Postmortem<\/a> because you get two speakers and not one but\u00a0<em>three\u00a0<\/em>games discussed in-depth: the original\u00a0<em>Panzer Dragoon\u00a0<\/em>(which was Futatsugi&#8217;s\u00a0debut as a game designer) as well as its follow-up\u00a0<em>Panzer Dragoon Zwei\u00a0<\/em>and the RPG\u00a0<em>Panzer Dragoon Saga<\/em>, neither of which have ever been publicly deconstructed like this.<\/p>\n<p>It promises to be a fascinating hour-long deep dive into the conception, development, and design of a seminal series, one that played a huge role in the life of the Saturn. Even if you aren&#8217;t interested in the history and the stories,\u00a0Futatsugi and Yoshida believe that some of the lessons learned in\u00a0struggling\u00a0with the cutting-edge hardware that was the Sega Saturn can still be put to good use in the modern age of game development.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on this session and others, make sure to check out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/schedule.gdconf.com?_mc=blog_x_gdcsfr_le_x_gdcsf_x_x-GDC19\">GDC 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<p><em><strong>For more details on\u00a0GDC 2019\u00a0visit the show&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/gdconf.com\/?_mc=blog_x_gamar_le_tsnr_gdcsf_x_x-blog\">official website<\/a>, or subscribe to regular updates via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GameDevelopersConference\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Official_GDC\">Twitter<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/GameDevelopersConference\">RSS<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Gamasutra and GDC are sibling organizations under parent company Informa<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a deep and abiding interest in classic games, the\u00a0Panzer Dragoon\u00a0series, the Sega Saturn, or all of the above? Then\u00a0Game Developers Conference 2019\u00a0organizers have good news for you:\u00a0 Panzer Dragoon\u00a0designer Yukio Futatsugi and artist Kentaro Yoshida, two Japanese game industry veterans who now work together at Grounding, will be at GDC\u00a0in March to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77589","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\/77589","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=77589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}