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The popular Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit at GDC is now the Mobile Summit, and now organizers of the 2017 Game Developers Conference are calling for great talk submissions!

We're now accepting Mobile Summit talk submissions through this Friday, September 23rd -- so submit your idea now, because the deadline is coming up fast!

The Mobile Summit at GDC brings together top game developers from around the world to share ideas, discuss best practices, and consider the future of gaming on mobile platforms, including iOS, Android, Amazon and more.

This two-day program will focus on the nuts and bolts of great game design and successful business strategies specifically tailored to popular smartphones & tablets. We're always seeking great talks from both new and established speakers, and being a GDC speaker is a great experience: the week-long conference continues to be the world's largest and longest-running event serving professionals dedicated to the art and science of making games.

Good news, everyone: The 2017 Game Developers Conference has opened a call for submissions to ALT.CTRL.GDC, that popular on-site special exhibit which highlights unique control methods for playing games.

The perennially popular ALT.CTRL.GDC showcase will take place during GDC, from March 1st to March 3rd of next year. The deadline for submissions to the showcase is December 2nd, and organizers welcome all indie-centric one-of-a-kind game peripherals, contraptions, and novelties which enhance game experiences and challenge traditional forms of input.

To get your creative juices flowing, consider that at GDC last year ALT.CTRL.GDC visitors could pick up a phone and discover their true self (with the help of a deranged automated psychiatrist) by playing The Von Neumann Personality Test, lead a flock of migrating birds across North America via an electronic zoetrope, and muck with an authentically reproduce telephone switchboard to play Hello, Operator!

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 2017.

If you have a great idea for a talk about the art or business of virtual reality game development that you think would be a great fit for the VRDC at Game Developers Conference 2017, we've got good news:

GDC organizers are now accepting VRDC @ GDC talk submissions through this Friday, September 23rd!

VRDC made its debut at GDC 2016, and proved so popular that GDC parent company UBM Americas will be hosting a special standalone VRDC with an expanded remit later this year.

There will also be a more focused, entertainment- and game-centric VRDC at GDC 2017 (the 31st edition of GDC) which continues to be the world's largest and longest-running event serving professionals dedicated to the art and science of making games.

That means that VRDC @ GDC 2017 is seeking submissions exploring virtual- and augmented-reality spaces, submissions pertaining to both game and non-game, entertainment-immersive VR/AR development -- submissions, in short, that can be part of VRDC @ GDC's two talk tracks: the Game VR/AR Track and the Entertainment VR/AR Track.

Good news, would-be GDC speakers: 2017 Game Developers Conference organizers are now accepting Independent Games Summit talk submissions through Friday, September 23rd.

This is important, because the Independent Games Summit is intended to be the place for the independent game developer at GDC. It features lectures, postmortems and roundtables from notable independent game creators, including many former and current Independent Games Festival finalists and winners.

The Independent Games Summit seeks to achieve diversity of voice, experience and perspective, while highlighting the best and brightest in indie development. Discussion topics range from game design philosophy to art, programming, distribution, business, marketing, and much more.

The 2017 IGS will again use a main, large room alongside a simultaneous second smaller room - for deep-dive subjects and focused talks that we would otherwise be unable to fit into the program. Please submit with this in mind!

Contemporary VR expert (and Oculus chief scientist) Michael Abrash once predicted that "VR will be the most social medium ever."

The VR developers at Ubisoft's Red Storm Entertainment believe their own findings support that prediction, and at the standalone Virtual Reality Developers Conference in November they intend to share their findings.

In a session titled "Social Animals: Werewolves Within and the Virtual Tabletop" Red Storm's lead social systems designer Justin Achilli will deconstruct how the studio developed Werewolves Within with a focus on social gameplay. In the process they challenged the notion of VR as a solitary activity and translated the experience of face-to-face gameplay "around the table" into the medium of VR.

With new technology comes new creative power -- and new responsibility.

Virtual reality is no exception, and at the inaugural standalone Virtual Reality Developers Conference this November a panel of experts will gather to discuss the value of ethics in VR experience design.

With preparations for the 2017 Game Developers Conference well under way, conference organizers are on the hunt for great talks -- and speakers to present them at the world's premier event for game developers.

Today, GDC organizers want to remind you that they're currently accepting Narrative Summit talk submissions through Friday, September 23rd.

The Game Narrative Summit covers interactive narrative in all its forms, from AAA blockbusters to indie games to mobile/social projects.

The event features an all-star lineup of speakers from every corner of the discipline. Session content ranges from the advanced and theoretical to practical case studies and advocacy for writers, designers, producers, and others seeking to expand their understanding of game narrative.