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The 2016 Game Developers Conference is just a few months away, and today the folks putting it together are highlighting a cool new talk from Criterion Games producer James Svensson about what made the studio's Autolog system tick -- and why more developers should be studying it.

The Autolog social interaction system debuted in Criterion's 2010 hit Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, winning critical acclaim for elegantly encouraging players to try and beat their friends' best times on individual in-game challenges.

At GDC 2016, Svensson -- who helped create Autolog -- will look back on how the innovative system was developed in "Beat It. A Retrospective of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit."  

The 2016 Game Developers Conference is coming up quick, and today organizers are excited to reveal another great talk that will take place at the conference in March.

What's especially interesting about this talk is that it spans both the Design and Visual Art tracks of GDC talks, and explores the technical aspects of how artists express their creativity through game design.

Jane Ng, an artist on Firewatch at Campo Santo, will be delivering a postmortem-style presentation on the topic at GDC 2016. Her talk, "Making the World of Firewatch," will discuss the reasons behind various production decisions and how the studio dealt with unexpected issues during production.

Organizers of the Game Developers Conference are finalizing a lineup of great talks for GDC 2016 next March, and today they're excited to debut another pair of great expert sessions.

Both of these new talks tackle the nuts and bolts of game design, with one investigating how Call of Duty: Black Ops III developers keep lag to a minimum in multiplayer environments while the other dives deep into what makes a great level editor.

Game Developers Conference organizers are proud to debut another pair of Summit sessions in which game industry experts will share their hard-won knowledge at GDC 2016 next March.

The eight focused Summits at GDC fill the first two days of the conference with lectures, panels, postmortems, and more to foster community-building within specific sectors of the game industry. 

At the GDC Education Summit RIT assistant professor Ian Schreiber will offer you valuable insight into how you can teach students the basics of balancing games. His talk, "A Course About Game Balance," will present a summary of his college-level course in game balance, examining the major topics covered in the syllabus and a set of assignments that can be used to further build balance skills by putting the theory into practice.

The 2016 Game Developers Conference is coming up quick, and today organizers reveal two more great talks from expert speakers that are taking place at the conference in March.

Both talks tackle some familiar topics from intriguing angles: one addresses the unique demands of composing music for fast-paced multiplayer shooters, while the other aims to share learnings from one F2P game makers' charge onto consoles.

Game Developers Conference organizers are working hard to program a great lineup of talks at GDC 2016 next March, and today they're excited to debut another pair of great talks from game industry experts that will take place during the show.

These sessions revolve around the technical challenges of game development, and span the Audio, Visual Arts and Production tracks of talks at GDC 2016. If you make art and music for games, you'll want to keep these talks on your radar. 

Game Developers Conference organizers are proud to debut another pair of Summit sessions in which experienced indie game makers will share their hard-won knowledge at GDC 2016 next March.

The eight focused Summits at GDC fill the first two days of the conference with lectures, panels, postmortems, and more to foster community-building within specific sectors of the game industry. Both of the talks announced today will be part of the perennially popular Indie Games Summit at GDC 2016.