Hey All! - GDCE

General Discussions
#1

I haven’t posted in quite some time and was just checking back in with the crowd. I spent 3 1/2 weeks travelling in Greece with the family and have just gotten out from under the e-mail mountain.

Anyhoo, I am going to be a speaker at this year’s GDCE - Mobile conference ( http://www.gdceurope.com/conference/mobile.html#Mastering ) and thought that, since I was going to be in London, a few of us here could get together one evening. How many of you will be attending the conference/be willing to meet up while there?

Let me know!

-Chris

#2

Well, most people in the industry don’t go to GDC-E because it’s rubbish :frowning: * ** - nothing like GDC at all. But there should be a lot at the Games Market Europe the same week (rumour is that this is the most-likely successor to ECTS this year), and I’ll be there.

    • no, it’s not just me. I’ve caught some of the organizers saying it themselves, and not being at all happy about it.

** - or, if you prefer, “massively horrendously overpriced for what it is”.

#3

sigh - LOL - Do you ever have anything nice to say?

EDIT:

(Toungue and Cheek - no offense intended)
Scene 1, Act 1

blah: (Laying in wait for his next victim.)
Chris: “Hey I’m feeling pretty good think I’ll share. By posting to my friends on the net.”
blah: “I can feel something good coming…”
Chris: (Posting happily away)
blah: “POUNCE AND KILL!!! AHAHAHAHAH!!!”
Chris: “Jesus, what the hell was that for?!”
blah: (Riding into the unknown) “Once again I have struck a death blow, ahaha.”

#4

Nah, blah^3 is the resident Black Cloud of the Forums.
I might pop on down. What are the dates and what’s the likelihood I’ll get a beer out of you?

Cas :slight_smile:

#5

Yes, because all of the registered attendees and speakers feel it is rubbish as well ::slight_smile: First of all, they are 2 different events. GME is more of an exhibition with no education vs. GDCE which has over 40 tracks, so you can actually learn something if you just listen :slight_smile:

[quote] * ** - nothing like GDC at all. But there should be a lot at the Games Market Europe the same week (rumour is that this is the most-likely successor to ECTS this year), and I’ll be there.
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Excellent. Another E3/SpaceWorld/TGS. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

[quote]* - no, it’s not just me. I’ve caught some of the organizers saying it themselves, and not being at all happy about it.
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Then you are talking to the wrong people Adam. This is the first year that GDCE is actually being run by the same CMP group out of SF that run GDC in the States. It was finally pulled back to that excellent group after CMP in Europe botched the whole conference and almost killed it. Now…I do know the poeple who are running this, quite well actually, and I can say that they don’t share the same sentiment. But I would be happy to pass along your comments if you like.

[quote]** - or, if you prefer, “massively horrendously overpriced for what it is”.
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Amazing! All those thousands of folks who attend must be stupidly throwing their money away. Thanks for clearing this up for everyone :slight_smile:

-Chris

#6

Hey Cas, the evening of the 31st is probably the best. You have my e-mail, lets make sure we pop out for that beer :slight_smile:

-Chris

#7

More like GDC-US, in fact - loads of real business used to get done at ECTS (until it all started to go horribly wrong about 3 years ago) - when amongst other things it became more E3-like: flashy lights, free games, 14-year-olds running round playing as many games as they could :(.

Fantastic - they should really say this in the press releases, right at the top in big letters. Lot’s of people for a long time in the UK and Europe have been complaining that GDC-E has been let down by not getting much attention from the US team of CMP.

My point exactly! This is what most people know and dislike with GDC-E. GDC-E has an awful rep :(. I’ve had > 6 emails trying to get me to register for it this year (apart from all the CFP’s) and none of them made clear that things had significantly changed.

Amazing! All those thousands of folks who attend must be stupidly throwing their money away. Thanks for clearing this up for everyone :slight_smile:
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Ah…have you seen the figures for “number of people attending GDC” versus “attending GDC-E”? No, hang on, let’s do it like this:

  • number of Europeans who spend $900 flying out to US for GDC
  • number of Europeans who spend $90 flying to UK for GDC-E

It costs at least twice as much to go to the GDC (and for many UK people who can commute to London for a 5-day conference a lot more than that), yet that’s where Europeans tend to go, rather than GDC-E. Why?