Game Developers Conference
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual conference for video game developers. The event includes an expo, networking events, and awards shows like the Game Developers Choice Awards and Independent Games Festival, and a variety of tutorials, lectures, and roundtables by industry professionals on game-related topics covering programming, design, audio, production, business and management, and visual arts.
Outside the Moscone Center in San Francisco, 2019
GDC Main Stage, 2019
The Independent Games Festival Pavilion at the 2019 GDC
A video game developer is a software developer specializing in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games. A game developer can range from one person who undertakes all tasks to a large business with employee responsibilities split between individual disciplines, such as programmers, designers, artists, etc. Most game development companies have video game publisher financial and usually marketing support. Self-funded developers are known as independent or indie developers and usually make indie games.
A group of game developers accepts a game developers' award.
Image: Shigeru Miyamoto 20150610 (cropped 2)
Image: John Romero Jason Scott interview (6951215353) (cropped)