GameDevelopers Conference 2005

GameDevelopers Conference

Indie's Invade GDC - Don't Miss GarageGames in Booth #912

The energy around the Garage has never been higher - everywhere you look there are amazing things happening.

I came in at 1:30am on a Friday night and what I call the 'night crew' was still there doing some amazing things. We've got a demo we're rolling out at GDC called Tim Aste's WarZone Demo (Timothy seriously resisted on this - he claims there is the Jay created Tim and the real Tim and he really felt strongly that everyone else who is involved isn't getting the credit they deserve and Robert Blanchet really has been a huge part of making this demo amazing - but the Aste / Blanchet WarZone Demo didn't have the right ring to it). We know once this is out everyone will want to pick up another Tim Aste Content Pack with some of these great assets (we'll have to see if we can twist his arm and get him to do another round).

Ben Garney was still there on a Friday night, doing some amazing work on the new terrain in the 'you have to see it to believe it TSE Water Shader Demo. Ben has been pushing the limits of the Terra Gen and making the buzz around the office for the last week being after people see Robert & Tim's demo, but 'have you seen the latest TSE water & terrain working? - no one will believe its not a pre-rendered fly-thru.'

We'll be at GDC in full indie form and force - be sure to pick up your 'g' button to show your indie colors and get a glimpse of some of the cool new stuff going on in the Torque Development Platform. T2D, TGE and TSE all have awesome new things to show-off. You'll find Josh & Ben Garney in the ATI theater on Wednesday and Thursday from 12:30 to 1:00pm proving that these demos are real-time in Torque and taking questions - we'll have a demonstration station in the ATI booth showing off what their tech can do.

In our booth, we'll be showing a few surprises on Xbox and on the PS2 (you read that right), we'll be announcing a stealth project everyone making games in Torque will want to know about and we'll be sharing with the world just a few of the new things we have going on with our key partners.

And that's just on the development side... The other 'Invasion' will be in games the IGF with DH: Lore, GISH in the final 10 and RocketBowl also making a strong showing. GarageGames will be hosting a mini-IGC in our booth playing some Zap! (showing off TNL - there really is no reason any multiplayer game ships with bad netcode).

So if you're going to be at GDC come by booth #912 (far right front of the first aisle), we'll try to post shots from the floor (we usually get one or two up). Watch for the announcements and we'll be sharing all the cool stuff online after we get back and get it all 'tweaked' for download.