I went through all of the GDC data for #gamedevelopers and shared my thoughts on the industry trends that are affecting #gamedev. #GDC2026 #GDC2026Summary Table of contents for this video: 0:00 (Intro) 0:51 (What is GDC?) 1:41 (GDC Talks Overview) 2:23 (Talk Data Breakdown)...
I went through all of the GDC data for #gamedevelopers and shared my thoughts on the industry trends that are affecting #gamedev. #GDC2026 #GDC2026Summary
Table of contents for this video:
0:00 (Intro)
0:51 (What is GDC?)
1:41 (GDC Talks Overview)
2:23 (Talk Data Breakdown)
5:29 (Individual Talk Deep Dives)
14:13 (AI Infographic)
15:55 (Topic Wordcloud)
17:31 (Speaker Breakdown)
18:22 (Topics By Day)
17:31 (Speaker Breakdown)
18:45 (Talk Breakdown By AI Application)
19:38 (Trends & indie Resources)
GDC Links:
https://gdconf.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@GDCFestivalofGaming/videos
https://gdconf.com/passes-pricing/
Talks I covered:
https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/the-state-of-mental-health-in-the-games-industry/915265
https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/game-funding-lessons-from-outersloth/913949
https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/from-project-operator-to-the-operator-postmortem-of-supporting-a-solo-dev-to-find-launch-success/915086
https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/innovative-tools-for-the-innovative-indies-roundtable-gamedev-in-a-distributed-world-presented-by-the-igda/917261
https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/how-ai-is-reshaping-game-creation-presented-by-google-cloud/917970
https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/delta-force-audio-building-a-unified-soundscape-across-modes-platforms-and-live-service-presented-by-tencent-games/917919
https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/roco-kingdom-crafting-a-comprehensive-soundscape-for-over-500-creatures-presented-by-tencent-games/917922
https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/the-hidden-ones-real-time-ai-generation-of-kung-fu-motions-presented-by-tencent-games-ai/917893
Games / sites I covered:
https://www.innersloth.com/outersloth/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1771980/The_Operator/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3345210/The_Hidden_Ones/
Mentioned Articles / Is GDC right for you:
https://www.perforce.com/blog/vcs/future-of-game-development-trends
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/how-to-gdc-as-a-new-indie-studio
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/corbinreeves_if-you-are-an-indie-rolling-into-gdc-run-activity-7431498933102735360-55J7
