279: $30,000 to Take Off a Pair of Glasses
Summary
Brad and Will discuss their experiences at GDC 2025, focusing on emerging dev tools, AI's role in animation, and the state of the indie game market. They also explore alt.ctrl.GDC, highlighting innovative and unconventional game controllers. The conversation covers the financial pressures in game development and the impact of new technologies.Episode description
The Game Developers Conference has come and gone for another year, and this week we have a potpourri mostly focused on our experiences at the show, with a particular focus on some emerging dev tools like Nvidia's AI-driven text-to-animation system and how they relate to current labor and economic issues in the industry, some of the cool maker-esque projects Will saw at alt.ctrl.GDC, and more.
Videos to all the alt.ctrl.GDC projects we discussed: https://gdconf.com/alt-ctrl-gdc
The blog post referenced later in the episode: https://www.joewintergreen.com/if-you-want-shorter-games-with-worse-graphics-made-by-people-who-are-paid-more-to-work-less-graphics-tech-advancements-should-please-you/
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