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Record a podcast with friends, a quick YouTube video, or do a Twitch stream.

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Open source some helpful code, release a tutorial project, or teach us a weird trick.

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Check out the current schedule, and come chat on Discord to book your slot!

2023 #notGDC Submissions

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How To Solo Dev Sustainably

by Devon Wiersma(2023)

How to Use Graffiti Effectively In Games

by Devon Wiersma(2023)

A Reference Guide to Custom Blueprint Nodes (Unreal Engine)

by Citrus(2023)

Core, Focus and Power - A game design methodology

by Adrian Novell(2023)

Designing Animation for the Cinematic Simultaneous Turn Based Tactics Game Phantom Brigade

by Pete Thorneycroft(2023)

Liminal Space Mechanics: Breaking the Fourth Wall

by Steven Harmon(2023)

GameCube-Style Stencil Lights in Unreal

by PROTO(2023)

A Practical Guide to Being Less Awful at Programming

by Alex Darby(2023)

An article about common mistakes made by beginner game designers and developers and how to avoid them.

by Artyom "Tricky Fat Cat" Volkov(2023)

Life After Grad: Unhinged Talks

by Steven Harmon(2023)

Hunkering Down for the Long Haul: From Jam to Final Development

by Doug Terhune, Jamie Whitmarsh, Christina Terhune, Colin Henry, Yina Wang(2023)

The Effects of Perceived Scarcity on Video Gamers' Purchase Behaviours: A Proposed Gamer-Narcissism Scarcity Matrix

by Patrick Day-Childs(2023)

Less Calls, Less Materials, More Unreal

by Dramatic Iceberg, Leonardo Assom(2023)

The Ultimate Unity Developer's Toolkit: 10 Unity Tools/Libraries to Save You Time and Money

by Antonio Miceli, Mega Power Games(2023)

Know, Do, Feel: A framework for thinking about UI

by ben🌱ui(2023)

Teaching the Game Loop: A Teaching Tip for High School Game Design Educators

by Matt Arnold(2023)

Tiny Game Engines: Intro to Fantasy Consoles

by Matt Arnold(2023)

Social VR & Gender Exploration: An open survey of VR users who have explored gender identity and expression in social VR

by Zach Deocadiz(2023)

Applying post-import settings to assets with in unreal, with python, c++ or blueprints!

by Ryan DowlingSoka(2023)

Game Jams: A Pretty Excellent Gateway To The Games Industry

by Shaun Wall(2023)

Basic Async/Await in Unity C#!

by @EstebanGameDev(2023)

Customer Aversion to the Metaverse

by Patrick Day-Childs (Custard Trout)(2023)

Organic Marketing Proven Practices for Indie Games

by Rafael Smeers Moraes(2023)

FFT Ocean Flipbook : How to create & sample one using Blender & UE

by Ghislain GIRARDOT(2023)

When Games Idolize Busywork

by Fabian Fischer(2023)

Unreal Engine - A non-destructive and better synced network clock

by Alvaro Jover(2023)

Gameplay Engineer Designing for Live Service Games in Unreal Engine

by Nicholas Helish(2023)

Creation and possibilities of a non-Euclidean engine

by Jose L. Redondo Tello(2023)

A Quick Dive in Unreal Windows Contextual Commands

by Sharundaar(2023)

Burnout in Gave Dev! A #notGDC conference live talk

by Marlon Wiebe(2023)

What Makes A Music Scene

by Matthew Bofenkamp(2023)

Disabling obsolete shadow casters in Unreal

by Hauke Thiessen(2023)

Procedural shaders don't have to be scary!

by Maël Viriot(2023)

Beginner-friendly guide to a simple 2D physics engine

by Nikita Lisitsa(2023)

Yui A Declarative UI library for Löve engine

by Lorenzo Cogotti, the 1414 Code Forge(2023)

NimForUE current status + a new game changer dev workflow for UE

by jmgomez(2023)

Releasing your First Game (a Skew Pong Post-Mortem)

by Axel Born(2023)

Quick Overview of Agile in Gamedev

by Nick Filonchik(2023)

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