{"id":452,"date":"2009-03-23T00:52:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T23:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=452"},"modified":"2009-03-23T00:52:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T23:52:48","slug":"gdc-2009-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/23\/gdc-2009-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"GDC 2009 Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of news sites and blogs have reported that the recession has affected GDC this year, with lot of cancelled parties and a big drop in attendees. I wouldn’t be surprised, given all the redundancies (although … wouldn’t that mean more people looking to recruit \/ be recruited?), but the first round of evidence – the volume of parties – shows no signs of recession so far:
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\nNB: each conference, I run a private shared calendar for friends and colleagues, with the two rules being: you’re either a friend already who I can trust, or you tell me a party you know about but I didn’t … AND: you only apply to RSVP\/invite-only parties that you’re generally interested in (so you don’t get anyone else in trouble for crashing a party and making them look bad with their boss \/ contacts).<\/p>\n

That’s why I’m not hotlinking these here – some of them are very small affairs and don’t want to be inundated with 3,000 GDC attendees. Those that aren’t small … you can usually google them quickly and easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Sun Mar 22<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
6pm \u2013 11pm<\/td>\nFlash gaming party<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6pm \u2013 12am<\/td>\nGDC kick off<\/td>\n<\/tr>\nMon Mar 23<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
6pm \u2013 8pm<\/td>\nCasual Games Summit Reception<\/td>\n<\/tr>\nTue Mar 24<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
4:30pm \u2013 8:30pm<\/td>\nCanadian Consulate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5pm \u2013 8pm<\/td>\nAccel Partners<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5:30pm \u2013 11pm<\/td>\nOutspark<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7pm \u2013 11pm<\/td>\nISM Charity Poker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8pm \u2013 11pm<\/td>\nUK partnerships + funding<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8pm \u2013 11pm<\/td>\nHarmonix<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8pm \u2013 1am<\/td>\n\tIGDA party<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9pm \u2013 12am<\/td>\nGameAIdev.com launch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9pm \u2013 12am<\/td>\nMinna Mingle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wed Mar 25<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1:15pm \u2013 2:15pm<\/td>\nIGDA VIP Lunch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4:30pm \u2013 6pm<\/td>\nBooth Crawl<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5pm \u2013 9pm<\/td>\nValve<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5pm \u2013 9pm<\/td>\nF2P Forum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6pm \u2013 8pm<\/td>\nTweetup<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6pm \u2013 9pm<\/td>\nIASIG Pro Audio<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6pm \u2013 10pm<\/td>\nSony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6:30pm \u2013 9pm<\/td>\nWomen in Gaming<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6:30pm \u2013 9:30pm<\/td>\n“Write Club” (Writing SIG)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7pm \u2013 9pm<\/td>\nPlayStation Blog<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7pm \u2013 12am<\/td>\nTriplePoint<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10pm \u2013 12am<\/td>\n007 Party<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thu Mar 26<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
6pm \u2013 9pm<\/td>\nGamespy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7pm \u2013 10pm<\/td>\nDarkstar Community meetup<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8pm \u2013 10pm<\/td>\nGDC World Mixer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8pm \u2013 10:30pm<\/td>\nGANG awards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8pm \u2013 11pm<\/td>\nGDC Speakers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8:30pm \u2013 10pm<\/td>\nIndie games party<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

NB: if you’re the organizer of any of those and want me to link it somewhere \/ provide contact info, let me know. If you’re an organizer of some party NOT on that list, and want it listed and hot-linked, again – let me know. I’d be happy to add it here for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lots of news sites and blogs have reported that the recession has affected GDC this year, with lot of cancelled parties and a big drop in attendees. I wouldn’t be surprised, given all the redundancies (although … wouldn’t that mean more people looking to recruit \/ be recruited?), but the first round of evidence – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}