GDC

Post date: Mar 21, 2017 6:25:55 PM

This was my first time attending game conference in USA, it was a lot of deference with any other game conference in Korea, I was amazing conference GDC was really game developers conference, there are a lot of game conference in Korea, but most of conference are more for the game fans not focus on the developers. I saw so much new technology and function for the game develop, it made me so exciting! I met so much good people, I was surprised about there ware so much booth owned by Asian companies. And half of companies form my country.

First day I arrived SFA at the afternoon, after register I had a big quick trip for all of the booth in the conference. I got a good connection someone from Beijing, we met in the Ringling booth, he is doing UE4 education in Beijing witch is capital city in China. Most of his students are programmers, they are not in game college, they are study UE4 only 1year in the normal college senior year. But they have really good skills. It was really good opportunity to understand UE4 education status in China, we talked a lot and a lot, both of us got useful information.   

Second day There are so much booths are related with VR, I can feel VR is really a promising solution for gaming and media, a lot of people in joy the VR games. I am not a big fan of VR, reason is that I feel dizzy when I wear the VR gear on my head, but I love the VR controllers with motion sensor, I was hoping want to play games just with the controller. There was a booth had a solution for this, the funny things the company from Korea. Here is the company website they make controller by there own technology, the controller just looks like VR controller, but they don’t have to set up the motion sensor around controller, they have their own motion sensor in the controller, it was much simple and saving the space. Also this controller doesn’t need VR gear for the head, I can play shooting game almost same experience with VR player controller on the regular TV display. It made me so exciting, the sensor in the controller is so accurate then what I thought, and the controller has more then 8 keys for the customize input, so I can play any game with this cool controller. I know some people don’t want try VR, because of more then one reason, biggest reason for me is that VR makes players eye so tired, that’s why I feel dizzy when I play game with VR. I can’t say this controller is better then VR, but it is good option for someone who want play game with cool controller without full VR set.

Final day I visited booths witch have some new technology or useful technology for games. A company was catching my eye, the reason is that, they have really simple presentation on the display it is very clean to understand. The company name is Proud Net, the company produce server and network engine. The coo of this company was in the booth, so we talked a lot of things, I got the so much new information about server, specially for the MMO game server. I have plan for make some cellphone base MMO game in near future, the talk was really helpful for me. We had so much good conversation and I got the really good offer from him. By his discus they have many of good server engineer and they will support us to develop our game.

          This GDC was very helpful form me, I met so much of good people who working in the industry, I got a lot of good information for my future.