GDC Highlights: 30 Years In Games

Attending the “30 Years of Making Games” session, we immediately felt what we wanted to desperately feel: nostalgia. Sitting in the middle, listening to the excitement of speaking developers as they relived groundbreaking moments in their careers, was a pleasant experience, to say the least. It was the kind of session that made older players and developers remember simpler times.

Much simpler times.

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The seminar issue thus far is that some sessions aren’t quite what we were expecting, but this one was very much a personification of what we stand for as an industry. It talked about what we care about most: games. It spoke about the past, and the present, highlighting the fact that if it weren’t for M.U.D. (multi-user dungeon) there would be no Minecraft. 

To be a great game developer, we must learn from the forefathers, and build upon it. Foundation is everything. And the past is golden.