GDC 2025 preview — with 700 sessions and perhaps 30,000 attendees
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Summary
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2025 will feature 700 speakers and will accommodate 30,000 attendees, according to Informa, the organizers of the event.
There will be an awards show to honor the Independent Games Festival and the Game Developers Choice Awards on the Wednesday evening of the conference, March 19.
GDC Nights, an after-hours event designed to bring the game development community together for two evenings in a safe format, will take over all three floors of Moscone’s West Hall on Monday and Thursday (6:30-10:00 p.m. on March 17 and March 20).
There will be a special screening of Deli Boys, the hit Hulu comedy series created by Abdullah Saeed, on Monday, March 17.
On Thursday, March 20, 12:15 p.m., the ESA will talk about accessibility and how developers can get involved to push the initiative forward.
Other scheduled talks include ones on audio design, the creation of battle systems, and the history and philosophy of creating audio visions.
There will also be talks on user interface design and procedural content creation.