GDC Canada Opens

Inaugural GDC Canada opens in Vancouver, BC. Daily passes available.

The Think Services Game Group and Reboot Communications today open the Game Developers Conference Canada (GDC Canada) at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Center (VCEC). Building off the success of the Vancouver International Games Summit, GDC Canada will be a two day forum for Canadian developers to share best practices for fostering ingenuity and quality games, and featuring sessions with leaders of Canada’s game development community. Unique to GDC Canada is its focus on cross-discipline collaboration during the production cycle with tracks dedicated to: Concept/Preproduction, Production, Finalling and Post-Launch/Analysis.

Don Mattrick, senior vice president, Interactive Entertainment Business, Microsoft, will kick-off the inaugural GDC Canada with a keynote address scheduled for Tuesday, May 12 at 9:30am PST in room 118 of the VCEC. The keynote, “The Evolution of the Canadian Game Industry: A Conversation with Don Mattrick,” will be conducted in a discussion format where Mattrick will be joined onstage by Victor Lucas, creator, executive producer and co-host of “The Electric Playground.” Doctors Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, co-founders of BioWare, developers of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect among many others, will deliver the second keynote, entitled “Emotionally Engaging Narrative: Gaming’s New Frontier” on Wednesday, May 13 at 9:30am PST.

“For years, Canadian developers have won hard fought lessons and established best practices on how to build better games with better teams,” said Izora de Lillard, event director at Think Services Game Group. “GDC Canada is an opportunity for Canadian developers to come together to learn from one another, form new connections and share ideas to reinvigorate the game development community.”

GDC Canada features an expo area and networking receptions where attendees can meet with representatives from Blue Castle, Hansoft, Microsoft, Next Level Games, Radical, Relic, Super Rewards, and Yummy Interactive, among others. The complete list of event sponsors and exhibitors is available at GDC-Canada.com.

GDC Canada will also play host to the Future Play Conference @ GDC Canada, an exploration of groundbreaking ideas alongside some of the world's most interesting games researchers and developers, and the Game Career Seminar, designed for developers looking to make a career move within the industry.

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