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As the GDC 2016 lineup locks into place, organizers would like to highlight some more notable Design track talks you should know about ahead of the March conference.

Red Hook Studios cofounder Tyler Sigman will be there this year delivering what promises to be an insightful, engaging look at the making of the studio's flagship game. In "Darkest Dungeon - A Design Postmortem," Sigman will reveal the greatest design challenges that faced the Darkest Dungeon team -- and how they overcame it to create a critically acclaimed game.

We're less than two months away from GDC 2016, and today organizers would like to let you know about a great talk from 80 Days writer Meg Jayanth highlighting some concrete things you can do to make more diverse games.

Jayanth's Advocacy track talk, titled simply "10 Ways to Make Your Game More Diverse," invites attendees to consider ten straightforward ways to ensure they're engaging with fresh ideas about inclusion, representation and cultural respect.

It's a process, one that touches on everything from your game's narrative, art and visual aesthetic to its design and production process. Make time to hear what Jayanth has to say, and you'll walk away with specific examples to learn from and approachable strategies for improving your own projects.

Passes for the Game Developers Conference 2016 are still available, and as the conference draws closer we're announcing even more sessions for the Main Conference that you'll want to check out.

Today we're highlighting a number of informative sponsored sessions from Nvidia, Intel and other influential tech companies. If you're looking for an opportunity to learn about how cutting-edge hardware and software works from a game developer's perspective, you'll want to keep these talks on your radar.

VR enthusiasts should make time to check out "Magical Realism: The Art of Creating Everest In Your Living Room with VR." Presented by Nvidia, it will feature Solfar Studios chief Kartan Perre Emilsson talking about the development of the studio's Everest VR experience and how the team pushed the limits of Unreal Engine 4 while also using 'brain hacks' to manipulate users' perceptive realism and create a more engaging, realistic VR experience.

 GDC 2016 organizers are offering an early look today at the scope and ambitions of the Advanced Graphics Techniques Tutorial Day that will help kick off the March conference.

It's just one of the many Bootcamps and Tutorials that take place during the first two days of GDC (Monday and Tuesday, March 14th and 15th this year) and offer attendees the chance to dive deep and explore focused topics like level design, art direction and storytelling fundamentals.

Brought to you with the collaboration of the industry's leading hardware and software vendors, the day-long Advanced Graphics Techniques Tutorial provides an in-depth look at how DirectX technologies can be applied to creating cutting-edge PC game graphics.

Game Developers Conference officials are pleased to release the full results of the fourth annual GDC State of the Industry survey today, and now you can download a copy of the full report for yourself. 

Highlights of this report, which is based on results of a survey of more than 2,000 game developers who have attended GDC across the past three years, have already been widely published, and include a significant uptick in interest in eSports and VR game development.

Further analysis of the full results suggests that developers are gaining renewed interest in working with publishers, and that Android and iOS are now neck-and-neck in terms of mobile game developer interest.

Today Game Developers Conference organizers are proud to highlight another great talk for the Virtual Reality Developers Conference, a sister conference that will take place alongside GDC 2016 in San Francisco this March.

Like the eight focused Summits at GDC, the VRDC jumpstarts the week with two full days of lectures, panels, postmortems, and more to foster community-building and knowledge-sharing within the nascent VR/AR development industry. 

Conference officials are pleased to welcome VR experts Ikrima Elhassan and Cory Strassburger, co-founders of the VR production house Kite & Lightning, to share their knowledge in a talk simply titled "VR Production & Development: A Deep Dive Into Kite & Lightning's Workflow."

As the GDC 2016 lineup begins to come together, organizers would like to highlight a few notable Design track talks you should know about ahead of the March conference.

Chief among them is "The Gamer's Brain, Part 2: UX of Onboarding and Player Engagement," Epic Games director of user experience Celia Hodent's follow-up to her popular talk at GDC last year on the psychology of player engagement.

Engaging your players within the first few minutes of play is a delicate endeavor, but it's become a critical aspect of development in the era of free-to-play games. Drawing on her experience at Epic on games like Fortnite (pictured), Hodent will show you the common onboarding pitfalls of F2P game design and offer some basic brain facts related to how people learn -- and how you can apply this knowledge to improve your game's design.