GDC 2023 After Party Meetup Featuring: Dolby, Unity, & More at DNA Lounge

SF Game Development is excited to announce our annual GDC 2023 Meetup/Party hosted at DNA Lounge on Tuesday, March 21st from 7:00pm-Midnight. Make sure to RSVP for our event on Meetup or Eventbrite for FREE entry to our event. If possible, please leave your backpacks at home. Event is first come first serve!

We listened to feedback from last years event, and we've split the event into three separate rooms focused around: music, tech talks and video game demos. We are also excited to announce that the main room will feature a special 22 Watt laser show by Vorperian Cyberarts along with custom video game themed projection mapped visuals. This is a professional networking event for game developers, artists, students, indies, or really anyone interested in game development. You do NOT need a GDC pass to attend, this is an event open to the public, must be 18+ to enter, so please RSVP, attend and show your support.

Main Room: Live Music and Lasers

DJ The Barbary Ghost will be spinning a unique video game themed set for our GDC 2023 After Party. Joshua (AKA The Barbary Ghost) was on the QA team for titles such as Sonic Adventure 2, Psychonauts, and Skylanders. they have also produced original music inspired by video game soundtracks with their project's "Vernian Process" and "Profondo Delle Tenebre".

Vorperian Cyberarts will be taking over the lasers, and will be operating 4 laser projectors, totaling 22 Watts of power! Additionally, Vorperian Cyberarts will be setting up a custom projection mapped stage with custom visuals, all video game themed, VJ'd by the team. Your mind will be blown by this main stage setup, it will be one of a kind!

Top Room: Technical Workshop Room

Hear from speakers from Dolby, Unity, AWS IVS, Sentry, Postman, PubNub and more! These sessions will be recorded, and you'll have a chance to attend live to learn more about APIs and technical game development concepts. At the end of each session there will be an Q/A where you will get to ask your development questions to the speakers.

Back Room: Game Demo Stations

The back room will be hosted in partnership with our friends at Courage Events, and will feature 15-20 indie game developers who will have their laptops and game consoles out, and will be showing off their latest titles dropping at GDC 2023. You'll be able to play test their titles, provide feedback and ask questions about their development cycle. There will also be booths setup from Dolby, PubNub and more where you'll be able to chat with their teams about your development questions.

Speaker Lineup:

Matt Dondelinger
Senior Developer Advocate, Unity Technologies

7:30pm-8:00pm
Protecting Your Players with Unity
In this talk, learn how to explore good Microtransaction (MTX) design principles, how to use them to protect your players, and some solutions Unity can offer to successfully monetize your game.

Angelik Laboy
**Developer Advocate, Dolby.io**

8:00pm-8:30pm
Real-time streaming into and out of game engines for interactive experiences
In this talk, learn how to implement real time streaming into game engines such as Unity, to create better experiences for your players.

W. Ian Douglas
Sr Developer Advocate, Postman

8:30pm-9:00pm
Exploring API types for Game Development
In this talk, learn how to compare REST vs Async vs gRPC APIs using Postman and Unity.

Braden Riggs
**Developer Advocate, Dolby.io**
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Oliver Carson
Developer Advocate, PubNub

9:00pm-9:30pm
Spatial Audio and Real Time Messaging
In this talk, learn how to set up Spatial Audio and Real Time messaging in your Unity application, for things like leaderboards, chat and more.

Todd Sharp
Developer Advocate, Amazon IVS (Twitch)

9:30pm-10:00pm
Adding Live Streaming to your Browser Based Game
In this talk, Todd will be showing off how to take an open source game, and show how to live stream it using Amazon IVS, without the need for OBS or Streamlabs.

Russell Sng
Developer Advocate, Unity Technologies

10:00pm-10:30pm
Leaderboards with Unity Game Services
In this talk, learn how to implement a new leaderboard SDK by Unity into your Unity Projects and games easily.

Stefan Jandl
Unity3D Mobile SDK Software Engineer, Sentry

10:30pm-11:00pm
Your games are crashing and you didn't even know.
In this talk, learn how Sentry helps you figure out what's going on. Sentry gives developers helpful hints for where and why an error or performance issue might have occurred.

See you all there!

You do not need a GDC pass to attend, this is an event open to the public, so please RSVP, attend and show your support. Make sure to RSVP to lock in your spot, can't wait to see you all there.