GDC Attendee Demographics

GDC 2011
February 28 - March 4, 2011
Moscone Convention Center
San Francisco, CA


GDC 2010 Attendee Demographics

All GDC 2009 attendees work in the game industry either in game development services or related fields.

Visual Arts 12.2%
Programming / Engineering 24.5%
Game Design 12.1%
Audio 3.6%
Production 7.2%
Business / Management 16.5%
Other 14.7%

*Other includes Content Acquisition/Licensing, students, educators, press/media, and other job functions

GDC 2010 conference attendees develop for these platforms:
Console 38%
Handheld (DS, DSI, PSP, Microsoft) 11%
Mobile (phones) 17%
PC/Mac 56%
Web 29%
iPhone/iTouch 26%
  • GDC conference attendees have an average of 5 years of experience, have worked on an average of 10 game titles, and published an average of 10 game titles.*

  • GDC attendees manage 6 people directly or indirectly.*
    GDC attendees average development team size for their current project is 29.*

  • Geography: 85% of GDC attendee are from North America with the balance mainly coming from Western Europe (9%) and Asia (5%)
  • Top four actions attendees have taken as a result of attending GDC 2010:
    • Visited an exhibitor's website
    • Sent an email
    • Requested more information
    • Downloaded a GDC Session from GDC Vault
  • GDC 2010 conference attendees agree:
    • They were inspired (87%)
    • Their attendance helped their team (76%)
    • They heard interesting information about the industry they didn’t know before (82%)
    • They brought home specific ideas to improve their game (68%)
    • They can’t afford to miss next year (75%)
    • They made useful contacts they didn’t know before (74%)
*Source: 2010 Attendee Survey by Audience Insights

Come face to face with the future of the $21 billion game industry at Game Developers Conference® 2011.

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