I didn’t actually attend GDC this year.  My (indie-focused) highlights from the outside:

• Cactus, an indie developer who sometimes cranks out several games in a week, talked about the four hour game design.
• World of Goo co-creator Ron Carmel talked about going indie.  Slides available in this post, item #2.
• Dan Cook bitches about the quality of a few of this year’s GDC talks.  (The selection process is quite strict, by the way– but of course, you can’t really know a talk’s quality before it’s written and delivered.)
• Raph Koster notices that it’s all going digital distribution, casual, mobile, in-browser, everywhere away from the traditional pub->store model.
• Zombies attack.
  
• Sexpigeon happens across GDC:
  

  Who has come to town? It is game developers. They are shaped exactly like comedy writers: soft, pret-a-porter, aware of “how people dress” but amiss in the details. Girls in lycra, of all things, have been recruited to hand out energy drinks.

  (More on the development process, and a poetic note on video RAM.)

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