GDC Festival of Gaming has at all times been my favourite business convention — I be taught, I make new pals, I develop, I give again. This 12 months was intense however rewarding in methods I didn’t anticipate. Just a number of…

GDC Festival of Gaming has at all times been my favourite business convention — I be taught, I make new pals, I develop, I give again. This 12 months was intense however rewarding in methods I didn’t anticipate. Just a number of highlights:

✨ Taking half in Anna C. Webster’s fantastically organized narrative portfolio overview and aiding in guiding over 100 junior narrative designers.
✨ Having FemShep and Verso themselves carry out my fanfiction reside in our “Page to Booth: Table-Reading and Performance Recording Live Demo,” bringing the home down and demystifying the script and efficiency course of alongside icons Sam Maggs Khris Brown Amanda Rose Smith Jennifer Hale and Ben Starr.
✨Presenting actionable methods to persuade management to rent and help junior expertise alongside Brie Chin-Deyerle Jordan DeVries Kevin Johnson, PMP and Anna Webster in “Supporting Junior Talent and Why the Industry Needs Them.”
✨Leading a grizzled vets author panel by means of a particularly considerate Q&A with Whitney Beltrán Diandra L. Evan Narcisse and Jennifer Svedberg-Yen.
✨Standing onstage alongside Sam Maggs and a ton of proficient people within the Game Developers Choice Awards – and getting handy JSY the award for Best Narrative myself!
✨Closing out GDC with my bud Adam Dolin and a packed room for “Writing Games for a Distracted, Polarized, Media-Illiterate World” — the tight 5 pre-show actually made a distinction!
✨Spending time with so many unimaginable folks, catching up with outdated pals and making a great deal of new ones.

I’m nonetheless going by means of enterprise playing cards and contacts and notes, however I’m already feeling so full and excited for the way forward for our business, even when none of know what’s coming. I’m assured we’ll make it by means of collectively.