GDC

Arts & Entertainment abbreviation · Video Game

GDC
Stands forGame Developers Conference
CategoriesArts & Entertainment

GDC stands for Game Developers Conference, a video game abbreviation.

Annual professional conference for video game developers, held each March in San Francisco, with talks, postmortems, the Game Developers Choice Awards and the Independent Games Festival.

Example: Her GDC talk on enemy AI design was one of the most watched of the year.

Usage notes

Founded by designer Chris Crawford in 1988 as a small meeting in his living room. Developers present "postmortems" analyzing what went right and wrong on finished games. GDC talks are archived in the GDC Vault.

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  • GOTY – Game of the Year
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  • HUD – Heads-up display
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