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The organizers of the 2008 Game Developers Conference have revealed the initial line up of speakers to be featured at the upcoming event.
Run by the CMP Game Group (as is Game Developer), GDC 2008 will take place at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center February 18-22, 2008. With more than 100 lectures planned for the conference some of the highlights include:
Chris Foster, senior designer at Harmonix Music Systems will present "Your Music Is the Game: Designing the OTHER Project at Harmonix" in which he discusses adapting Harmonix's "beatmatch" formula to a new IP.
In "Storytelling In BioShock: Empowering Players To Care About Your Stupid Story," Kenneth Levine, President and Creative Director at 2KBoston/Irrational insists that "Game stories can matter, even in first person shooters. But first, we're going to have to give up a lot of our preconceptions about what people care about when playing a game."
"E Pluribus Unum: Matchmaking In Halo 3" by Chris Butcher, the Engineering Lead at Microsoft/Bungie will describe the algorithms behind Halo 3's peer-to-peer multiplayer matchmaking model and the...