march 18th - 24th 2019

a game development non-conference, for everyone.


How To Take Part
See The Submissions


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#notGDC 2017
#notGDC 2018

How to take part

#notGDC is a way for people who make games to share ideas, skills and things they love with the international games community.



Write Something
Pen us a blog, an essay, a love letter, a research paper, or mix up a great thread on Twitter.


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


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


Or Something Else
Got a different idea? If you've got something to share, we want to help you share it.


Submit Your Thing! Ask Us Something

2019 #notGDC Submissions!

Game Design

Compeition: What's the Point?

by Aitor Iribar


The Future Postmortem

Research Notes: Playground Game AI

by Mike Cook


The Future Postmortem

Research Notes: Improvisational Narrative AI

by Mike Cook


Wellbeing

How To Stay Sane While Working in games Part Time

by Sean MacLean


Community 🔧 Tools 🔨

Sable: Gamemaker for Blind People

by Ebon Sky Studios


Tech 🎸 Metal? 🎸

Raspberry Pi Baremetal

by Andre Leiradella


Game Design ✍️ Narrative ✍️

Finding the Narrative Heartbeat

by Aaron Scott Hildebrandt


Project Management

Creating a Passion Project with No Budget

by Andy Wood


Game Design

Welcoming Players into DATA WING

by Dan Vogt


Tech How To

The deVoid UI Framework for Unity

by Yanko Oliveira


Tech 💀 Skeletons 💀

Procedural Level Generation in Skeletal Dance Party 💀

by Jesper Tingvall


Community

City Folk Just Don't Get It - Being a Game Developer in a Rural Community

by ALGameDev


😎 Awesome 😎

Awesome Game-Science

by Aleksandra Jarosz


Game Design

Life, Complexity, and Roguelikes

by Zeno Rogue


Game Design

Mother, I'm An Art Game Designer: A Survival Guide.

by Georg Hobmeier


📈 Math(s) 📉 Game Design

Elo sucks — better multiplayer rating systems for smaller games

by raysplaceinspace


🎥 Video Game Design

Accessibility Through Game Design

by Brian


🎥 Video Game Design

The World of Blind Gaming

by Brian


🎥 Video Game Design

Sneaky Accessibility: Game Design with Intent

by Brian


The Future Postmortem

Research Notes: AI as Critics, Curators & Friends

by Mike Cook


Wellbeing Community

A Game Dev Newbie's Insights on Game Jams

by Jem "artsybarrels" J. Sarmiento


🎥 Video Tech

Super-Quick UE4 Tutorials

by Nick Bell


🎥 Video Game Design

72 Hour Indie Game Development Timelapse in 10 Minutes

by ChairGTables


How To 🎨 Art 🎨

4 Methods For Low Poly Terrain For Your Game (Using Blender 2.8)

by Rog Dolos


Project Management Wellbeing

How To Survive As A 'Solo Dev'

by Damien Crawford


How To Tech

Crossword Puzzles For (Almost) Any Language

by Nick Doiron


How To Project Management

How To Backup Your Games As A Gamedev

by Rick Hoppmann


Game Design Wellbeing

Personal Experiences And How They're Shaping My Games

by Luke Parker


Tech How To

Integrate imgui via cimgui With SDL2 + OpenGL 3 In C

by Wasin Thonkaew


🎥 Video Game Design

Ayre - Dev Stream + Commentary by AL Wyvern

Live here on Thursday 21st, 10pm GMT or watch the archives here.


🎥 Video 🎶 Music

Composing Videogame Music

by Chase Bethea


Code Release

Blog to Game Builder

by Charlie Francis Cassidy


Postmortem

Creating And Releasing In My Mind

by Charlie Francis Cassidy


Wellbeing Twitter Thread

Being In Survival Mode Means Being On The Road To Burnout

by Rayna Anderson


Tech How To

Frame Independent Exponential Approaches

by Carlos Jambrina


Community

Dear Men of Gaming: Grow Up

by Daniel May


#notGDC 2019 is maintained by Lucy and Mike - you can contact either of them with problems or questions.
The jam is organised by Design By Cloud and the Discord is maintained by Lucy, Jacob, Mike and Michael.
#notGDC is based on ideas from lots of people, including Squid In A Box and Ben Porter.