The five biggest takeaways from GDC

Since its start in 1988 as a gathering of developers in a designer's living room, the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) has served as a nexus for the video game industry to trade notes and share ideas. Now held for a crowd in the tens of thousands at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco, award-winning game developers spent the last week providing talks and panel discussions about worked in their games and what didn't as part of the first in-person conference since the start of the pandemic. Over the last two years, the event went entirely virtual, offering up free tote bags to the first hundred people to buy an event T-shirt, with attendees huddling in online chat rooms to view pre-taped talks. In 2022, GDC reemerged as the main event at which developers and business analysts gather to discuss the industry's most pressing concerns.