3/7/06: PS3 keynote from Sony
If you have some Managed DirectX interest and would be interested in hanging out with the 'cool kids' at GDC then let me know - I will try to organize some kind of get together. Or if you want to get The ZMan's autograph that will be fine too. Here's who I know of so far:
- The ZMan - general superhero and leader of the Managed DirectX rebels
- Todd - who has managed to get his company to pay for another conference even though I have no clue if he's actually using Managed DirectX yet. Todd's job is teaching us all how to get people to pay your way to a conference like this.
- Matthieu Laban - Flight Sim writer and new NVidia employee. His job is to get me a demo of some Direct3D10 hardware, or at least get me into a cool NVidia party
- Graham Wihlidal - author of a book promoting managed code in game development tools. Graham's job is giving me a copy of his book to review. (and any other free books from his publisher would be great too)
- David Weller - well he wrote a book with Managed DirectX in it once upon a time, but the poor fella is too busy being the community manager on the DirectX team to do much coding any more. But he's a nice guy with a Microsoft credit card. David's job is to get me into any Microsoft parties. (So I guess I'm just looking for an ATI person so I get into all the big parties)
- Jonas Beckeman - EndoEngine creator. Jonas I don't have a GDC job for you yet - do you know anyone who is having a party?
When? March 20-24th
Where? San Jose, CA, USA
Website? http://www.gdconf.com
Registrations are open and if you went last year you should be able to log in and get the alumni discount which is very generous.
Should be a good show, I'm hopeful that Microsoft talk a lot about Direct3D 10 since this is the last GDC before Vista (and Direct3D 10) releases.
Sadly I don't count as press so I am as usual paying my own way (though its never too late to accept offers of sponsorship!).
The hotels are already filling up fast so book soon. I will be staying at the Wyndham which is closer to the airport than the convention center, but its still an official conference hotel, there is a free bus and the hotel is cheaper than the local ones which is useful if you want to keep costs down. I got a great deal on a air/hotel package through Orbitz that was even cheaper than the special prices on the conference site.News
- Game developers conference announces details from Gamasutra
- Wada, Mizuguchi, Garriott announced as speakers and a concert from Gamasutra
- Phil Harrison, Sony, keynote on PS3 from Gamasutra. See all keynote speakers including Will Wright
