Back from Game Developers Conference 2010 and trying to get my bearings like everybody else.
On the heels of my twitter map of GDC 2009, here is a word frequency map of this year’s conference. I think they give a decent picture of what was going on if you weren’t there.
Monday: Day before GDC
Anticipation before the conference starts.
Tuesday: Tutorial and summit day 1
Social games loomed large, as did Facebook, FarmVille, the iPhone, Android, and indie games.
Wednesday: Tutorial and summit day 2
While social games and tutorials were still happening, this was completely overshadowed by the announcement of the PlayStation Move controller.
Thursday: Day 1 of main conference
The expo floor opens (“booth”), Uncharted 2 is big, and the award show dominates.
Friday: Day 2 of main conference
Sid Meier’s keynote, parties, more expo booths. Harmonix, FarmVille. @pocketprotector wins the prize for most tweets.
Saturday: Final day (3) of main conference
Phaedrus’ aka Will Wright’s “surprise” talk takes a lot of space. Mass Effect.
Sunday: Post-conference
A great time, PlayStation move (again), Gabe Newell, time to go home. “See you guys next year.”
Notes:
- Thanks to Mike Edwards for providing the captured tweets.
- I have deleted all occurrences of the quite frequent “game”, “games”, “gdc” and “rt” as they did not add any information.
- “PlayStation Move” on Wednesday is a hundred times more frequent than I would have guessed from going to the conference. This is probably because we are more likely to tweet news items than casual conversation.
- Made using Wordle.
it looks awesome..nice work
This is great, thank you.