{"id":953,"date":"2010-03-17T18:28:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T23:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=953"},"modified":"2010-03-24T13:40:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T17:40:11","slug":"game-developers-conference-2010-as-told-to-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2010\/03\/17\/game-developers-conference-2010-as-told-to-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Developers Conference 2010 as told to Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back from Game Developers Conference 2010 and trying to get my bearings like everybody else.<\/p>\n<p>On the heels of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=596\">twitter map of GDC 2009<\/a>, here is a word frequency map of this year&#8217;s conference. I think they give a decent picture of what was going on if you weren&#8217;t there.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Monday: Day before GDC<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Anticipation before the conference starts<\/em><strong><em>.<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-8-Mon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-954\" title=\"Mar 8 - Mon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-8-Mon-450x267.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-8-Mon-450x267.png 450w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-8-Mon.png 925w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Tuesday: Tutorial and summit day 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Social games loomed large, as did <\/em><em>Facebook, <\/em><em>FarmVille, the iPhone, Android, and indie games<\/em><strong><em>.<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-9-Tue.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-955\" title=\"Mar 9 - Tue\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-9-Tue-450x275.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-9-Tue-450x275.png 450w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-9-Tue.png 934w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong><strong>Wednesday: Tutorial and summit day 2<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>While social games and tutorials were still happening, this was completely overshadowed by the announcement of the PlayStation Move controller.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-10-Wed2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-968\" title=\"Mar 10 - Wed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-10-Wed2-450x154.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-10-Wed2-450x154.png 450w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-10-Wed2.png 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong><strong>Thursday: Day 1 of main conference<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>The expo floor opens (&#8220;booth&#8221;), <\/em><em>Uncharted 2 is big, and the award show dominates. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-11-Thu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-957\" title=\"Mar 11 - Thu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-11-Thu-450x219.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-11-Thu-450x219.png 450w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-11-Thu.png 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong><strong><strong><strong>Friday: Day 2 of main conference<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Sid Meier&#8217;s keynote, parties, more expo booths. Harmonix, FarmVille. @pocketprotector wins the prize for most tweets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-12-Fri.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-959\" title=\"Mar 12 - Fri\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-12-Fri-450x252.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-12-Fri-450x252.png 450w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-12-Fri.png 926w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Saturday: Final day (3) of main conference<\/h2>\n<p><em>Phaedrus&#8217; aka Will Wright&#8217;s &#8220;surprise&#8221; talk takes a lot of space. Mass Effect.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-13-Sat1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-960\" title=\"Mar 13 - Sat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-13-Sat1-450x206.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-13-Sat1-450x206.png 450w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-13-Sat1.png 929w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Sunday: Post-conference<\/h2>\n<p><em>A great time, PlayStation move (again), Gabe Newell, time to go home. &#8220;See you guys next year.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-14-Sun.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-961\" title=\"Mar 14 - Sun\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-14-Sun-450x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-14-Sun-450x200.png 450w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Mar-14-Sun.png 919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Notes:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li> Thanks to Mike Edwards for providing the captured tweets.<\/li>\n<li>I have deleted all occurrences of the quite frequent &#8220;game&#8221;, &#8220;games&#8221;, &#8220;gdc&#8221; and &#8220;rt&#8221; as they did not add any information.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;PlayStation Move&#8221; on Wednesday is a hundred times more frequent than I would have guessed from going to the conference. This is probably because we are more likely to tweet news items than casual conversation.<\/li>\n<li>Made using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordle.net\/\">Wordle<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back from Game Developers Conference 2010 and trying to get my bearings like everybody else. On the heels of my twitter map of GDC 2009, here is a word frequency map of this year&#8217;s conference. I think they give a decent picture of what was going on if you weren&#8217;t there. Monday: Day before GDC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2010\/03\/17\/game-developers-conference-2010-as-told-to-twitter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Game Developers Conference 2010 as told to Twitter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}