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[ScepticMatt]

No Sony VR stream - or even recording, before you're asking.

TUESDAY, March 18
GameSpot's The Lobby live show

Our weekly live show will feature an interview with storied developer Peter Molynuex.

WEDNESDAY, March 19
Classic Game Postmortem: Shenmue

Who: Yu Suzuki | President, Ys Net (with PS4 lead architect Mark Cerny translating)
When: 2:00PM-3:00PM (12:30-2pm set up)
What: Yu Suzuki will talk for the very first time about the creation of the console classic, Shenmue. Beginning with the origin of the title as a Virtua Fighter-based RPG on the Sega Saturn, he will take the audience through the long journey of the game that led to its ultimate release in 1999 on the Sega Dreamcast.

Meanwhile, In Japan

Who: Keiji Inafune | CEO, Comcept, Inc. and Mark MacDonald | Executive Director, 8-4, Ltd.
When: 5:00PM-6:00PM PST
What: Fresh off their success crowdfunding the Mighty No. 9 project, Comcept CEO Keiji Inafune is joined by Tokyo-based consultant Mark MacDonald of 8-4, Ltd. to talk about the experience, as well as other trends in the Japanese industry. How did the different Western and Japanese partners come together to manage one of the biggest Kickstarter campaigns of all time? What are the advantages and challenges to creating and selling modern Japanese games to a primarily Western audience? And how are Japanese developers and game-players responding to newer business models like crowd-funding and free-to-play in general? Join us for anecdotes and insight covering all these topics and more.

IGF/GDC Awards Show

When: 6:30PM-8:30PM PST
What: The IGF was established in 1998 to encourage innovation in game development and to recognize the best independent game developers. At the awards ceremony, the IGF gives out eight awards and over $55,000 in total prize money to the most innovative independent games. The awards are held in conjunction with the Game Developers Choice Awards. Learn more about the IGF at www.igf.com. The Game Developers Choice Awards are the premier accolades for peer-recognition in the digital games industry, celebrating creativity, artistry and technological genius. Industry professionals from around the world nominate for the awards, free of charge, ensuring that the recipients reflect the community's opinions. Learn more about the GDCA at http://www.gamechoiceawards.com

THURSDAY, March 20
Creating BioShock's Elizabeth

Who: Shawn Robertson | Animation Director, Irrational Games
When: 2:30PM-3:30PM PST
What: Behind the critical success of BioShock Infinite is the game's heart and soul, Elizabeth. Not only did Elizabeth carry the narrative weight of BioShock Infinite on her shoulders, she was also a robust AI that allowed for many systemic interactions. The creation of Elizabeth was an organic process that evolved over time and included members from every department at Irrational. This presentation will go over some of the decisions we made and the lessons we learned as we gave shape to Elizabeth and attempted to bring her to life. With a focus on animation, Shawn will talk about the various systemic and narrative techniques that we used on Elizabeth, and give practical examples of how they worked within the game. He will touch upon how a character like Elizabeth needs art, narrative and systems working together to create the illusion of humanity.

Lucasfilm Studio Postmortem

Who:
Steve Arnold | Co-Founder- Emeritus, Polaris Partners
Noah Falstein | Chief Game Designer, Google
David Fox | Director/Game Designer, Electric Eggplant
Ron Gilbert | Game Designer, Independent
Peter Langston | Cooperative Resercher/Co-Director/Arts and Technology Hacker, Apple Advanced Computation Group
Chip Morningstar | Principal Architect, PayPal
When: 10:00AM-11:00AM PST
What: Before LucasArts, there was Lucasfilm Games. From a small startup within a medium-sized (and very famous) film company, this group grew from 1982 to 1990 to become one of the most popular game companies of its day. It then morphed (a Lucasfilm term!) into LucasArts, which was acquired by Disney, and then shut down shortly after GDC 2012. In the early days, the company was known for experimentation, with early multiplayer (Ballblazer), first-person games (Rescue on Fractalus, Koronis Rift), the first MMO (Habitat/Club Caribe), and of course, some well-loved graphic adventures (Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, The Secret of Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and more). This postmortem asks the questions, "What mix of creative and business forces shaped this early success story?" and "Could this kind of company be duplicated today?"

Source and stream partner: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/wa...enmue-lucasarts-and-more-panels/1100-6418362/

 

[Adry9]

No stream of the DX12 presentation?

 

[ElTorro]

What, a talk about Shenmue? Have I missed something, or is it snowing in hell?

(I know it's a post-mortem, but why talk about it in 2014 "just because"?)

 

[ScepticMatt]

No stream of the DX12 presentation?

I don't think so. There is no vault recording for it.

 

[Jacobi]

Looking forward to the Shenmue presentation, this is gonna be awesome (even if nothing new is announced, the history of shenmue is interesting).

 

[Mondy]

Watch the creating Elizabeth panel turn into a questionnaire about what happened at Irrational.

 

[Pryce]

I quickly saw Sony VR headset and Bioshock and got VERY, VERY excited.

Now I'm sad.

 

[Beant]

What, a talk about Shenmue? Have I missed something, or is it snowing in hell?

(I know it's a post-mortem, but why talk about it in 2014 "just because"?)

and look who's trannnnslating..

Spoiler

BELIEVE

 

[Squalor]

What, a talk about Shenmue? Have I missed something, or is it snowing in hell?

(I know it's a post-mortem, but why talk about it in 2014 "just because"?)

Spoiler

Zombie Shenmue rises from the generations and receives a this-gen reboot.

 

[shandy706]

What, a talk about Shenmue? Have I missed something, or is it snowing in hell?

(I know it's a post-mortem, but why talk about it in 2014 "just because"?)

If it's not a "just because"....the internet will explode.

 

[Snakeyes]

Why did Shenmue 2 flop so hard compared to the original?

 

[Galactic Barret]

Now that Knack is over and PS4 has launched, could a Cerny/Suzuki-helmed Shenmue 3 be possible?

Spoiler

I know anything is possible

 

[_Ryo_]

Why did Shenmue 2 flop so hard compared to the original?

Because Microsoft bought exclusive rights to release it on the Xbox in the US. Sega fans were content with their Dreamcast but did not want to buy a new, unproven system by a newcomer in the console space.

That and Microsoft did not release Shenmue 1 on the Xbox, which incredibly hurt sales of Shenmue 2 in the US. They also included a Shenmue recap that was really the worse way to experience the game. You have to actually PLAY the game.

 

[Dugna]

so no streams for Sony tomorrow?

 

[eso76]

Twist that knife and watch us bleed, Yu.

 

[XiaNaphryz]

so no streams for Sony tomorrow?

Only a few % at most of the 600+ total panels/presentations/roundtables will be livestreamed. It's a tech conference after all. You'll have to rely on either the archive vault afterwards or hope various presenters post their lectures/slides/presentation on their personal websites.

 

[Memento_Mori15]

Will be watching the Shenmue presentation not only because I love Shenmue, but I love the way Mark Cerny speaks.

 

[Empty]

didn't realize the shenmue retrospective would be streamed. nice!

 

[Trago]

There's either gonna be massive hype or massive disappointment after that Shenmue stream is finished.