2010 – GDC Session Cancelled

Posted by roBin - 01/03/10 at 12:03:59 pm

Greetings, friends of Experimental Gameplay!

We have decided to cancel the Experimental Gameplay Workshop this year. It was a hard decision to make, but we think it’s for the best. This year, the EGW’s slot at the Game Developers Conference will be replaced by The Nuovo Sessions, which focuses on the finalists, runners-up and honorable mentions for the IGF’s Nuovo Award.

The organizers would like to extend a collective & heartfelt thanks to everyone who submitted to the workshop this year. There were several good, thoughtful experiments in this year’s submissions.

However, after reviewing these submissions and evaluating other non-submitted games for potential invitation to the workshop, we still did not have enough material for a full high-quality session. We debated this and came to two conclusions:

    1) We value the time of our attendees; our method has always been to show the maximum amount of goodness in the minimum time. So we do not like the idea of adding filler, or padding the presentations, to fill the time slot.
    2) We want to change the nature of the workshop and submissions process so that we can better support thoughtful, high-quality gameplay experiements in today’s environment, which is very different from the situation when we started nine years ago.

Finally – none of the games we would have shown in this year’s session are going to go away; we’re saving them for next year’s session.

In the meantime, we will use this web site to showcase interesting games and to establish an evergreen, year-round submissions process. Thus, we are opening the call for the 2011 workshop now – and will be posting to this site throughout the year.

While we will miss you all this March, we look forward to seeing you next year – and blowing you away with 2 hours of high-quality gameplay experimentation. Please submit your experiments so we can get started!

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