Wednesday, May 20, 2009

GDC Canada 2009

Last week marked the first Game Developers Conference (GDC) in Canada!
Blue Castle Games was happy to be a part of it as a Gold member sponsor for the event. We also had 2 staff members there as speakers.
With the hype of our two upcoming games The Bigs 2 and Dead Rising 2 increasingly growing, we were ecstatic to make a big impact with our booth, which looked fantastic by the way.


The attendance was great for an inaugural event and it took place at the new and beautiful Vancouver Convention Center that boasts a grass rooftop and in addition supports 'Go Green' by way of recycling an average of 180,000 kilograms of materials annually.

We had a great deal of attention at our booth by students and professionals alike. Some were blown away by our featured trailers, some were intrigued by the information our staff were providing, others were networking, and everyone wanted our swag! Who wouldn't want a kickass foam glider plane?! Hell yeah!

We were fortunate enough to have some good press come our way as well. We were on CBC news and also on the Vancouver Province website.

It was a fantastic event, fun to see old friends, great to meet new faces and I'm really looking forward to next year's event already. Someday it may even rival the San Francisco one...