GDC in San Francisco is the world’s largest gathering of game developers — spanning technical, artistic, and business disciplines. Kevuru Games participates to meet clients, explore industry trends, and showcase the studio’s capabilities.
From March 20-24, 2023, Kevuru Games attended the Game Developers Conference at the Moscone Center. We were also one of the sponsors of this event.
This year’s conference was the industry’s largest source of content and connections, with many exciting presentations, sessions, and networking events, and a focus on health and safety. GDC offers five days of expert-led training on key game development topics, as well as several special features throughout the week. Participants had the opportunity to gain insight into the future of gaming, be inspired by new methods, and discover new creative approaches.
About GDC
Game Developers Conference is the largest annual gathering of professional game developers, game designers, business and marketing ptofessionals, producers and team/studio managers, visual artists, writers and storytellers, independent developers, sound designers, engineers, composers, virtual and augmented reality creators, game educators, and career seekers. The event includes:
- Large-scale learning space: a wide range of lectures, panels, and round tables.
- GDC Expo showcasing the latest game development tools and services from leading technology companies such as Amazon, Epic, Google, Intel, Nvidia, Oculus, and Sony.
- Dedicated community spaces where GDC members can take a break from all the learning, relax and meet new people in themed areas for playable indie games, retro games, alternative controllers, and more.
GDC also hosts two award ceremonies:
- The Game Developers Choice Awards, the premier video game competition honoring the best games and developers in the industry.
- Independent Games Festival, an event that celebrates the most innovative and exemplary indie game development projects.
This year, the conference will cover the following topics:
- Design.
- Programming.
- Business & Marketing.
- Production & Team Leadership.
- Visual Arts.
- Free-to-Play.
- Game Narrative.
- Independent Games.
- Future Realities.
- Educators.
- Game Audio.
- Sponsored Content.
- Advocacy.
- GDC Main Stage.
- Game Career Development.
Among the speakers one will see representatives of such gaming companies with lectures on the specifics of working on different aspects of their well-known games:
- Electronic Art (Dead Space, The Sims).
- Crytek (Deathloop).
- CD Projekt RED (The Witcher, Cyberpunk 2077).
- Sony (God of War Ragnarök).
- WB Games (Gotham Knights).
- Criterion Games (Need for Speed).
- Guerrilla (Horizon Forbidden West).
- and many others.
The GDC Advisory Board is made up of seasoned game and VR/AR industry experts who volunteer each year to help develop the GDC conference program and sessions. The consultants work to ensure that GDC content is engaging, relevant, and timely.
For a game art outsourcing studio, GDC 2023’s value sat mostly in the Visual Arts and Game Narrative tracks, alongside the Production and Team Leadership sessions covering how larger studios structure external collaboration. With speakers from CD Projekt RED and Sony breaking down the visual and narrative work behind The Witcher and God of War Ragnarök, the sessions most relevant to Kevuru Games’ own work centered on exactly the disciplines the studio specializes in: art production, animation, and the pipeline decisions that make outsourcing partnerships work at scale.
Kevuru Games GDC 2023 was another step in the studio’s ongoing presence at the Game Developers Conference San Francisco, where the team connected with publishers, indie studios, and fellow developers across the show floor and the week’s sessions. As a game art outsourcing studio, GDC remains one of the most useful stops on the calendar each year (we wrote about our 2021 GDC visit on the blog), less for any single announcement and more for the steady stream of conversations that tend to turn into future collaborations.
About Kevuru Games
Kevuru Games is a game outsourcing company that has been creating game art and developing games for PC and mobile devices for over 11 years (read more on the About Us page). Our main creative driver is the love for games and our work, so we are scrupulous and dedicated at every stage of game creation, from conceptualization to post-production.
Thanks to high professionalism and an irresistible desire to do something unusual, our team has become a reliable partner for many of the world’s leading publishers: Epic Games, EA, Lucasfilm, Bandai Namco, and others. We have taken the desire to create beyond the limits as our motto and are always happy when our work makes the game world brighter.
Feel free to contact us and we will help you dot the i’s and cross the t’s and bring your idea to life in the best possible way.
