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Game Developers Conference 2016 organizers would like to cheerfully remind the game development community that the call for submissions to ALT.CTRL.GDC --the on-site special exhibit focusing on unique control methods for playing games -- will end next Monday, December 7th.

Those interested in participating in ALT.CTRL.GDC should fill out this online form in its entirety before the December 7th deadline. Any questions about the form or the exhibit should be directed to ALT.CTRL.GDC's organizer, John Polson.

As always, teams for each chosen submission will be asked to showcase their games to GDC attendees at the ALT.CTRL.GDC exhibit area on the expo show floor. They'll also receive a pair of All-Access Passes and a pair of Expo Passes, for a total of four free passes to GDC 2016.

As the 2016 Game Developers Conference approaches, organizers are excited to announce two new sessions for the big show that will challenge your expectations about the art and design of video games.

From new rules of game design to the practical realities of art direction in contemporary games, these two talks demonstrate the breadth of experiences available to GDC attendees.

In "Rules of the Game: Five More Techniques from Quite Inventive Designers," a panel of designers that includes Richard Rouse III (Paranoid Productions), Michael de Plater (Monolith Productions), Emily Short (Independent), Liz England (Insomniac Games), Lee Perry (Independent) and Jason VandenBerghe (Ubisoft) will take the stage to share their own unique, personal pieces of game design wisdom.

Expect to hear very specific, practical and unique game design rules from veterans of the industry, rules you can then take home and apply to your own work.

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 two more standout sessions from expert speakers.

It's basically race day today, as both of these fresh talks deal directly with the nuts and bolts of how some of the world's leading racing game developers do what they do best.

How do you capture the roar of an engine and make it feel authentic to someone sitting on a couch, with a gamepad in their hand? The audio lead and audio creative director of Turn 10 Studios, Chase Combs and Nick Wiswell, will walk you through the process in their GDC 2016 talk "Simulating the Race Day Experience: Mixing Forza Motorsport 6." 

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 Summit sessions for the show.

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

At the ever-popular AI Summit Daniel Brewer, lead AI programmer at Digital Extremes, will share practical advice on crafting great boss AI gleaned from his experience on popular free-to-play online shooter Warframe. 

As the 2016 Game Developers Conference approaches, organizers are today announcing a fresh pair of expert sessions aimed at advancing both our understanding and our appreciation for the art of game development.

Both of these talks dig into programming and design, though one looks to the past for inspiration and education while the other touches on some of the cutting-edge programming work being done by the developers of Rainbow Six Siege.

Released in 1979, the TRS-80 is often looked back on as a horribly constrained machine that nevertheless saw some great game releases in its day. At GDC 2012 veteran game maker Jim McGinley dug into quite a few of them for his "Inspiration from the Trash" talk, and it proved so popular that he's coming back to GDC 2016 to unearth another crop of TRS-80 games worth studying. 

With the 2016 Game Developers Conference on the horizon, event organizers are excited to debut another pair of intriguing sessions that should shed light on the art of developing games.

Both of these talks appear on the Programming track of talks at GDC 2016, with one focusing on the practical challenges of creating gorgeous environmental art for mobile games while the other digs into the fun challenges of porting modern games to MS-DOS (and the joys of programming in general.)

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 the first of what promises to be many standout Summit sessions.

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

As part of the popular Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit, Prettygreat cofounder Luke Muscat (known for designing games like Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride while at Halfbrick) will showcase how he and the Prettygreat team designed and fine-tuned the intuitive touch controls of the studio's debut game Land Sliders (pictured.)