Continued from last week, here is the complete Twitter cloud for Game Developers Conference 2011:
I have removed the words GDC, “game” and “games” here to give a better overview of themes.
- Platform winner: Nintendo with the 3DS.
- Genre winners: Social games, indie games.
- Game character winner: Mario.
- Topic winners: Art, gamification, postmortems.
- Non-game winner: Netflix.
- Most notable absences: Sony, Microsoft, consoles.
I think Apple had hoped the iPad 2 would be on this list, and Google had hoped that Android was here too. The iPhone and Android did make appearances on single days though.
For an actual writeup on the conference vibe, I can recommend Nick Fortugno’s blog post.