{"id":83261,"date":"2019-02-18T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/336811"},"modified":"2019-02-18T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:33:00","slug":"wizards-of-the-coast-shares-community-building-tips-at-gdc-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/18\/wizards-of-the-coast-shares-community-building-tips-at-gdc-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards of the Coast shares community-building tips at GDC 2019!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team at Wizards of the Coast have decades of experience building communities around physical (and now digital) games like Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons &amp; Dragons, and they&#8217;re coming to the 2019\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/?_mc=blog_x_gama_le_x_gdcsf_x_x-GDC19\">Game Developers Conference<\/a> next month to share what they&#8217;ve learned!<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, as part of a\u00a0GDC 2019\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/conference\/community.html\">GDC Community Management\u00a0Summit<\/a>\u00a0talk on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/schedule.gdconf.com\/session\/25-years-of-building-community-at-wizards-of-the-coast\/862994\">25 Years of Building Community at Wizards of the Coast<\/a>&#8221; which aims to give you a deeper understanding of how to market your brand for a variety of platforms and how experience in community-building at a local level can be applied to a variety of different purposes in the digital age.<\/p>\n<p>Presented by Wizards&#8217; Aland Failde and Michelle Sutterfield, this is a talk worth seeing because over\u00a0the past 25 years, Wizards has worked closely with local gaming stores to share knowledge and encourage them to shape\/empower their own community. Now the company has translated that same experience into the digital space with online influencers, and this is your chance to see how they succeeded. Don&#8217;t miss it!<\/p>\n<p>You can find more details on this talk and many more over on\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/schedule.gdconf.com\/\">GDC 2019\u00a0Session Scheduler<\/a>!\u00a0There 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>Bring your team to GDC! Register a group of 10 or more and save 10 percent\u00a0on conference passes. Learn more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gdconf.com\/attend\/groups?_mc=blog_x_gdcsfr_le_x_gdcsf_x_x-GDC19\">here<\/a>.\u200b<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For more details on\u00a0GDC 2019\u00a0visit the show&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gdconf.com\/?_mc=blog_x_gamar_le_tsnr_gdcsf_x_x-blog\">official website<\/a>, or subscribe to regular updates via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GameDevelopersConference\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Official_GDC\">Twitter<\/a>, or\u00a0<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>The team at Wizards of the Coast have decades of experience building communities around physical (and now digital) games like Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons &amp; Dragons, and they&#8217;re coming to the 2019\u00a0Game Developers Conference next month to share what they&#8217;ve learned! 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