Created for the Computer Games Developers Conference , being held this year April 25-29 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, near San Jose, California. Next year it will be henld May 2-7 at the Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California. The Computer Game Developers Conference is my favorite conference. It was started by game designer Chris Crawford in the early 80s. Every year since it has grown substantially.
Attendance is now many thousand.
It still retains a whacky creative edge while addressing such diverse interesting issues as 3d modeling, online network performance, storytelling, user interface design, software prototyping and education. I like the conference because it is full of do-ers, not just commentators. In the past I have talked at the conference on designing puzzle games. This year I hosted a roundtable discussion on Designing Online Puzzle Games . I designed this logo in 1991 and it has been used ever since.