It’s that time of the year again, when everyone else is partying and having fun (or maybe not – WTF IGDA?) at GDC in San Francisco. I’ll try to collect any links to lecture materials I come across. If you know of stuff missing here, please tell me about it on Twitter @TheJare. You can also check industry sites like Gamasutra, Polygon or Develop for ongoing coverage, and hopefully a lot of these materials will show up in the GDC Vault soon.

Edit: also check out eXile’s awesome and better organized compilation (focused on programming & rendering).

• Virtual Go by Glenn Fiedler (also check his entire series of articles)
• Continuous Collision by Erin Catto (lots of stuff from him there)
• Indie Soapbox (reprise), on technology and design spaces by David Rosen
• No One Knows About Your Game (rehearsal) by Chris Hecker
• Orthogonal Matching Pursuit and K-SVD for Sparse Encoding by Robin Green and Manny Ko
• Intel HD Graphics Samples from Intel
• There is No Escape: Designing Videogames for Maximum Real-Life Impact by Jane McGonigal (plus lots of research links)
• Building Scalable Cloud Tech for Mobile / Social Games by Paul Winterhalder
• Designing Without a Pitch – FTL Postmortem (writeup, slides here) by Matthew Davis and Justin Ma
• Empowering the Player in a Story-rich World by Harvey Smith and Raphael Colantonio
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (video) panel with Hideo Kojima
• Loading from Imperfect Data by Andreas Fredriksson
• Network Serialization and Routing in World of Warcraft by Joe Rumsey
• Molyjam: How Twitter Jokes Can Save Video Games (video) by Anna Kipnis
• Smack Talk, Big Data, and Localization by Liesl Leary
• Modular Level Design for Skyrim by Joel Burgess and Nathan Purkeypile
• Fair Use rant (video) by Chris Hecker
• Halo 4 Postmortem (video) by Kevin Grace, Frank O’Connor, Kiki Wolfkill and Matt McCloskey
• Destiny: Building a Brave New World (video) by Bungie
• Classic Games Postmortem – XCOM: UFO Defense (video) by Julian Gollop
• Usability is not Random by Mike Acton (check his repo for lots of other talks)
• The Western Mobile Games That Conquered China by Henry Fong
• COLLADA to WebGL by Remi Arnaud
• Biff Boom Pow: Introducing Students to Sound for Games by Karen Collins
• Surviving Free-to-Play for Small & Early-Stage Start-Ups by Margaret Wallace
• OMG! Zombies on the Great Wall of China! by James Gwertzman
• Game Educator’s Rant 2013: The Telltale Job Ad (reprise) by Clara Fernandez-Vara
• The Velveteen Marine – The Power of Belief in Natural Selection 2 by Charlie Cleveland
• Why Virtual Reality Is Hard (and where it might be going) by Michael Abrash (also, a transcript of the talk)
• Crowdfunding for Indies: Real Numbers and Trends by Thomas Bidaux
• The Future of Storytelling by Jesse Schell
• Building Games for the Long Term by Emily Greer
• Spaces in the Sandbox by Matthew Jack
• Math for Game Programmers: Dual Numbers by Gino van den Bergen
• Physics for Game Programmers: Spatial Data Structures by Gino van den Bergen
• Understanding Quaternions by Jim Van Verth
• A Gamer’s Guide to Parenting by Carla Fisher
• Duct Tape Award Acceptance Rant by Scott Jon Siegel
• Designing Virtual Markets for Fun and Profit by Vili Lehdonvirta
• Of Choice and Breaking New Ground: Designing Mark of the Ninja by Nels Anderson
• We Are Not Heroes: Contextualizing Violence Through Narrative (video) by Walt Williams
• Why Are You Making Games? (Indie Soapbox reprise) by Noel Llopis
• Working Together: Solutions for Collaborative Asset Creation by Niklas Frykholm
• Under the Hood of Blizzard’s Internal Build System by Blaine Whittle
• Supercharging Word of Mouth by Jussi Laakkonen
• Story-telling as Problem Solving: Defender’s Quest by Lars Doucet
• Lessons Learned Porting Team Fortress 2 to Virtual Reality by Joe Ludwig
• Diablo 3 Postmortem (photos) by Jay Wilson and Wyatt Cheng
• Free to Play Game Design: A Year in Review (video) by Juan Gril, Steve Meretzky and Dave Rohrl
• Video Game Business Models and Emerging Trends Among Consumers by Robb Lewis
• Guild Wars 2: Scaling from one to millions by Stephen Clarke-Willson
• Low-Level Thinking in High-Level Shading Languages by Emil Persson
• Horizon and Beyond: A look into Tomb Raider’s Tools by Jason Yao
• Porting Source to Linux: Valve’s Lessons Learned (author?)
• The Rendering Technologies of Crysis 3 by Tiago Sousa, Carsten Wenzel and Chris Raine
• Hothead Rant (writeup) by Mitu Khandaker on race and representation
• Hothead Rant (writeup) by Anna Marsh on crunch and “being hardcore”
• Candy Crush Saga Postmortem: Luck in the Right Places (video) by Tommy Palm
• Everything from Nvidia
• Eliminating Texture Waste: Borderless Realtime Ptex by John McDonald
• Particle Shadows & Cache-Efficient Post-Processing by Louis Bavoil and Jon Jansen
• Three Years of Collaboration on Assassin’s Creed III (video) by Marc-Alexis Cote, Alexander Hutchinson, Damien Kieken, Francois Pelland, Hugues Ricour
• Everything from Intel
• Multiplatform C++ on the Web with Emscripten by Chad Austin
• Indie Soapbox, Ranting about Text by Emily Short
• Classic Game Postmortem: Myst (video) by Robyn Miller
• Compiling C++ to JavaScript by Alon Zakai
• The Polling Problem by Dino Dini
• Dear compiler please don’t be my nanny by Dino Dini
• Little Hands, Foul Moods and Runny Noses: Mobile Games for Kids by Carla Engelbrecht
• Igniting the Spark: Building Online Services for Borderlands 2 by Jimmy Sieben
• Casting a New Light on a Familiar Face: Light Based Rendering in Tomb Raider by Jason Yao
• A Survivor Reborn: Tomb Raider on DX11 by Jason Lacroix
• Constraint propagation is your friend by Ian Horswill and Leif Foged (also, the tutorial)
• Supply Chain and Paper Simulations of Digital Games by Stone Librande (Game Design Workshop)
• Simulating a City, One Page at a Time by Stone Librande
• Genre and Creativity by James Lantz
• Implementing a Rewindable Instant Replay System for Temporal Debugging by Mark Wesley
• Everything from AMD
• Presence, Self and Storytelling by Thomas Grip
• The ethics and psychology of the ‘freemium’ model (video) with Eli Hodapp, Arash Keshmirian, Kevin Pazirandeh, Keith Shepherd
• Hothead rant (writeup) by Naomi Clark on why games should be striving to mean more

Constantly updated…