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#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

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2020 #notGDC Submissions!

Project Management How To

Distraction-preventing Software and Tools

Game Design How To

Your Own Best Enemy

by Steve Thornton

Game Design Postmortem

About Desktop Pets & Virtual Companions

by Nathalie Lawhead

Project Management Wellbeing

A Guide to Working Remotely (Especially in Games)

by Akupara Games

Everything

A curated collection of Unity tutorials, posts, repos and videos

by Stelios Petrakis

Game Design Tech

Notes on Supermash

Twitter Thread

HYPERTEC Dev Log

by Backyard Giant

Video Game Design

Extra Life Learning

Video The Future

Uh Oh! Feeling Myself Being Swallowed by Time!: boredom as a desirable quality in gaming

Everything How To

The Jeff Ramos Quarantine Creative Learning Guide

Game Design Tech

Making Random Fun

Game Design

Reasons Why pico-8 is the Best

Art Game Design

Fashion for Games

by Giulia Zielasko

Community Everything

Game Jams: A Pretty Excellent Gateway To The Games Industry

Tech How To Video

Commandos Cone of Sight FX in Unity

by Josue Candela

Game Design

How Astroneer creates an enjoyably unsafe space

Game Design

Less is More - Exploring Optimal User Interface Layouts for Achieving Cognitive Flow in Action Games

by Jack Griffiths

Code Release Tools

anarchy: a PRNG library for PCG

by Peter Mawhorter

Business Tech

Think Big On a Small Consoles

by Vincentius Madya

Everything

GDC Virtual Talks Hub

by GDC Speakers

Tech Artificial Intelligence

Interactive Machine Learning for More Expressive Game Interactions

by Carlos Gonzalez Diaz, Phoenix Perry and Rebecca Fiebrink

Tech How To

How to Make Portals in Unity

by Daniel Ilett

Tech How To

Movement using delegates and events

Tech The Future

Making games using quantum computers

by James Wootton

Community How To

Designing Game Communities for Kindness

by Victoria Tran

#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.