Game Developers Carnival – A Viable Alternative to E3?

<p>To the shock of many&comma; E3&comma; the premier event for video game news and reveals&comma; has been canceled this year&period; The news of its cancellation came in via an announcement two days ago by <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;E3&sol;status&sol;1237769050123534336&quest;s&equals;20">the official E3 Twitter account<&sol;a>&period; This happened due to ongoing health concerns with the COVID-19 epidemic&period; The decision clearly wasn’t easy&comma; but a very necessary one&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; there may be hope for developers looking to put the word out for their next big projects&period; Paying service company Xsolla announced an upcoming event known as the Game Developers Carnival&period; The event is coming up in late April and registration is open now&period; The goal is to provide an experience similar to the one you would get from attending a major event like <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;hyped-or-afraid-e3-special-resident-evil-2-remake&sol;">E3<&sol;a> or <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;square-enix-announces-pax-east-2020-games&sol;">PAX<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-155001" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;03&sol;13231334&sol;image4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1920" height&equals;"1014" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">The Way Game Developers Carnival Works<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>If this is the first you’re hearing about the Game Developers Carnival&comma; you’re in luck&period; The event looks to streamline and simulate the experience of attending a big gaming convention&period; Using a currently-unreleased sandbox engine known as <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;YourWorldBuilder&sol;">Your World<&sol;a>&semi; the entire convention will be held online&comma; being able to be accessed from any computer with a network connection&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Exhibitor booths are available on the server&period; Essentially&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;re digital kiosks for developers to advertise their next big products&period; Attendees have the freedom to go to these kiosks as they see fit&period; They can also participate in minigames that the server sets up over the course of the event&period; In fact&comma; you can find yourself competing with other attendees&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Attendees also have the opportunity to directly connect with attending game developers&period; In turn&comma; they can express their projects in extended detail&comma; as if they’re at a convention in person&period; Developers can also set up meetings through a program called MeetToMatch&period; However&comma; it’s currently not available as of the time of writing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>An interesting feature is the implementation of proximity audio adjustment&period; To simulate the convention experience further&comma; audio from presentations will dynamically rise and fall in volume depending on how close the player&sol;attendee is to the presentation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-154999 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;03&sol;13231002&sol;car2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Xsolla" width&equals;"1490" height&equals;"838" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Attendance Information<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Applying to attend is completely free&period; However&comma; to guarantee admission&comma; the event runners request that you register before April 10th &lpar;four weeks from the time of writing&rpar;&period; An optional &dollar;20 donation option is available&comma; which guarantees a seat&period; All proceeds of the donations will go towards the GDC Relief Fund&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Through the exhibitor booths&comma; developers can register to have virtual booths for their upcoming products to display during the event&period; Registration is also free for exhibitors as well&comma; though they will have to provide their own assets &lpar;digital skins&comma; video assets&comma; etc&period;&rpar;&period; The first 20 sign ups for exhibitors get a free booth designed by a professional digital artist&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Upon attending and being approved as an industry professional&comma; you’ll receive an e-mail to download the Your World launcher&period; On April 20th&comma; when the event occurs&comma; you’ll be able to log into the application and access the GDC server&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;155002" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-155002" style&equals;"width&colon; 1920px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-155002" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;03&sol;13231455&sol;image3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"GDC" width&equals;"1920" height&equals;"1080" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-155002" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Interact with others in a virtual gaming convention<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Is GDC A Viable Alternative&quest;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Applying the information given&comma; the Game Developers Carnival seems to be a very plausible alternative to the now-canceled E3&period; It seems to be a very promising event that has the potential to be an annual event&period; Of course&comma; that is if the event is as successful as it’s expected to be&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamedeveloperscarnival&period;com&sol;index&period;html">Registration is currently open for both attendees and for developers<&sol;a> planning to attend&period; To reiterate&comma; registration is free&period; However&comma; any &dollar;20 attendance proceeds go to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wingsfund&period;me&sol;gdcrelief">the GDC Relief Fund<&sol;a>&comma; which provides relief for indie developers that had to make sudden cancellations based on events shutting down throughout the past few months&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What do you think about the Game Developers Carnival&quest; Are you going to attend the event in April&quest; Do you think this event could be a success&quest; Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;