As you finalize your plans for the 2019 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next week, organizers want to quickly remind you that this year the show will play host to four hour-long deep dives into the design and development of classic games!

These special Classic Game Postmortems are just a few of the many sessions available to you in the GDC 2019 Session Scheduler, but they're a bit more historic than your typical GDC talk.

Each is usually hosted by a game dev veteran with lots of stories to share (often for the first time!) about their work and their time in the industry, making these sessions a great way to learn more about th…

The game market in China is vastly different from the market in the US, and most Western countries. China has never particularly had a console or packaged game business – it's always been free to play, in one way or another. In his talk at GDC China, Rety Chen, CEO and CPO of Mokylin Technology discussed how the business model that's appropriate for a company in the Chinese market depends both on where the market is for your platform, and where your company is in its lifecycle. He also says that it's a good time to be making mobile games in China. Overall, Chen urges that "you can't build a model for a business model's sake. It's systemic." A game is a balance, he says – on the one end there's fun, and on the other end, there's pro…