This is a MARCH Dev Log

Yes, I am posting this at the end of April. And I wrote it at the end of April. But really, pay no mind to the publication date. This is a March dev log.

As a Bay Area dev, I took the opportunity to go to the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco in March because it's local. This was a beautiful week which left me so inspired by the creativity and drive of other creators. I want to be as focused and humble as the amazing folks I met and learned from this week!!!

I'm listing here all the adventures I had and workshops I attended as an artifact from that week.

• Day of the Devs - "How to Pet a Cat" won the night
• Fundraising Bootcamp: Legal and Business Considerations with Foundation Law Group LLP - Nonprofit studios anyone?
• Beyond Empathy: Frameworks for Embedding Prosocial Values in Games with Adam Jerrett - Funny and insightful!
• How to Plan for Audio as a Developer with Em Halberstadt of A Shell in the Pit - I've never cared about audio more!
• Marketing Your Game Under the New Steam Rules with Chris Zukowski - Dynamic! RELEASE YOUR DAMN DEMO!!!!!!
• Content-Ready Game Development with Matt Hackett - Good advice on how to make content creation easier.
• Microtalks: Solving Production Problems with Jen Costa, Shahrin Khan, Kaitlin Smith, and Lola Shiraishi - Honestly, this was super transferable to my day job. Key take away: Whatever you're making, always have something working.
• 10 Reasons Your Port Will Fail with Zak Whaley - I knew nothing about porting and now I know something.
• Gameplay System Design for Indies Microtalks: A Soapbox with Monica Fan, Damien Crawford, Jakub Kasztalski, Scott Fine, Nat Loh, and Joe Quadara - A lot of diverse thought! 
• Game Dev Mixer for Women and Nonbinary Devs at Double Unions - I hosted this! And I met such cool people! 
• Video Game Labor at a Crossroads: New Pathways to Industry-Wide Organizing with Communications Workers of America - Guess what?! We formed a direct join union today!!! Worker-owned coop studios anyone??
• SF Gaming & Media Founders GDC Meetup - Most beautiful courtyard.
• Incubation Roundtable with Sho Sato - Should the Bay have a game studio incubator?? I think yes and maybe I'll found it.
  
• IGDA x WIGI Networking Mixer - The Children's Creativity Museum was awesome! And I met an awesome dev from New Jersey named Chris!
• GDC Nights - I ate so many goldfish crackers.
• Career Trees: Growing Your Career Towards Your Goals with Jarryd Huntley - This talk made me feel so much better about my twisty turny career history.
• The Black Designer's Dilemma with Jarory de Jesus, Carl Varnado, Kim Belair, and Jabari Alii - I only caught half of this but was very happy to hear Jabari, another Bay Area dev, speak.
• Becoming a Juggler: A Framework for Sustainably Handling Multiple Projects as a Student and Beyond with Alonso Canales-Echeverria - Funny and sensible approach to handling multiple projects... why don't you figure out how to do one before adding more?
• GDC Expo - I spent 30 minutes in line for crepe and took all the free notebooks I could find.
• Pave Your Path and You Can Eat Ramen Every Day with Tyler Coleman and Melody Geiger - Good overview!
• Game Dev Mixer at the Treehouse - I hosted this! So many awesome devs! I definitely learned hosting is the way to get me to be social.