GDC 2017 Presentations

(last update: April 5, 2017)

Programming Track

• “Cold, Hard Cache: Insomniac’s Cache Simulator” – Andreas Fredriksson (Insomniac Games)
• “Insomniac’s Web Tools: A Postmortem” – Andreas Fredriksson (Insomniac Games)
• “FrameGraph: Extensible Rendering Architecture in Frostbite” – Yuriy O’Donnell (Frostbite / Electronic Arts)
• “Technical Direction: Communication, ROI and Triage” – Mike Acton (Insomniac Games)
• “Irradiance & Light field Probes with Visibility” – Morgan McGuire
• “4K Checkerboard in ‘Battlefield 1’ and ‘Mass Effect Andromeda'” – Graham Wihlidal (Frostbite Labs, Electronic Arts)
• “GPU-Based Run-Time Procedural Placement in ‘Horizon: Zero Dawn'” – Jaap Van Muijden (Guerrilla Games)
• “Creating a Tools Pipeline for ‘Horizon: Zero Dawn'” – Dan Sumaili (Guerrilla Games), Sander Van der Steen (Guerrilla Games)
• “Player Traversal Mechanics in the Vast World of ‘Horizon: Zero Dawn'” – Paul Van Grinsven (Guerrilla Games)
• “Hashed Alpha Testing” – Chris Wyman (NVIDIA)
• “‘Ghost Recon Wildlands’: Terrain Tools and Technology” – Guillaume Werle (Ubisoft), Benoit Martinez (Ubisoft)
• “Simple and Powerful Animation Compression” – Nicholas Frechette (Eidos-Montreal)
• “High Dynamic Range Color Grading and Display in Frostbite” – Alex Fry (Electronic Arts)
• NVIDIA GDC Presentations
• “Advanced Shader Programming on GCN” – Timothy Lottes (AMD)
• Khronos Group Presentations
• “AMD Presentations”

AMD Capsaicin And Cream Event

• “Scriptable Render Pipeline, Future of Rendering in Unity” – Aras Pranckevičius (Unity)
• “Improving Texture Compression in Games” – Stephanie Hurlburt (Binomial)
• Presentation Videos

Math For Game Programmers

• “B-rep for Triangle Meshes” – Gino van den Bergen (Dtecta)
• “Solving Nintendo’s CodinGame Challenge” – Mike Acton (Insomniac Games)
• “Predictable Projectiles” – Chris Stark (Robot Entertainment)

AI Summit

• “Taking Back What’s Ours: The AI of ‘Dishonored 2′” – Xavier Sadoulet (Arkane Studios), Laurent Couvidou (Arkane Studios)

Visual Arts

• Animation Bootcamp
• Texturing Uncharted 4: A Matter of Substance (presented by Allegorithmic)
• UE4 Animation and Physics Technical Showcase
• Visual Effects Artist Roundtable

Design

• “Embrace Radical Constraints” – Christina Norman (Riot Games)
• “Rules of the Game: Another Five Techniques from Particularly Crafty Designers” -Richard Rouse III (Paranoid Productions), Luke Muscat (Prettygreat), Christina Norman (Riot Games), Damion Schubert (Boss Fight Entertainment), Hal Barwood (Finite Arts LLC), Chelsea Howe (Owlchemy Labs)
• “Still Logged In: What AR and VR Can Learn from MMOs” – Raph Koster (Altered Tuning)
• “The Gamer’s Brain, Part 3: The UX of Engagement and Immersion (or Retention)” – Celia Hodent (Epic Games)
• “Game Rhythms” – Stone Librande (Riot Games)
• “‘Offworld Trading Company’: An RTS Without Guns” – Soren Johnson (Mohawk Games)
• “Change and Constant: Breaking Conventions with ‘The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild'”– Hidemaro Fujibayashi (Nintendo), Satoru Takizawa (Nintendo), Takuhiro Dohta (Nintendo)

Business & Marketing

• “Thirty Things I Hate About Your Game Pitch” – Brian Upton (Game On The Rails)
• “Prototyping Your Monetization: Evaluating Monetization Potential Early” – Adam Telfer (Wooga GmbH)

Game Narrative Summit

• “Telling Story Through Sound: Building an Interactive “Radio Play”” – Bonnie Bogovich (BlackCatBonifide), Michael Lee (Schell Games)

Mobile

• “Hero Generations, Design Postmortem” – Scott Brodie (Heart Shaped Games)

Advocacy

• “A Practical Guide for Doing Ethical Player Testing” – Mia Consalvo (Concordia University)
• “5 myths in 5 minutes …with a dash of sports history” – TL Taylor (MIT / AnyKey)