View, browse and sort the ever-growing list of sessions by day, time, pass type, topic, and format. With this Session Viewer, you can view session and speaker details for Game Developers Conference 2024.
You will be able to build your schedule with the GDC Mobile App. The GDC 2024 app will be available for download in Apple Apps and Google Play late February 2024.Sessions do fill up and seating is first come, first serve, so arrive early to sessions that you would like to attend. Adding a session to your schedule does not guarantee you a seat.
John Cooney (Game Developer, Wonderful Elephant)
Location: Room 2009, West Hall
Date: Monday, March 18
Time: 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass - Get your pass now!
Topic: Independent Games
Format: Session
Vault Recording: Video
Audience Level: All
Its been five years since The Flash Games Postmortem and the impact of Flash continues to be critical to our understanding of the modern indie game scene. The indie spirit of Flash games provides many lessons in the modern game space through its developer experiences, accomplishments, preservation, and relationships with platforms. In this talk we explore how Flash's historical impact beyond the "Death of Flash" provides modern lessons to developers and how we can best prepare ourselves for the ephemeral and existential concerns of our industry (and our place in it).
Flash has continually shown itself to be a prototype platform for modern indie devs, and many lessons continue to be derived from its successes and failures. Developers will have a stronger sense of history against the realities they face in their modern platforms and challenges, and how those past challenges may line up with today
This talk is widely accessible to anyone working in the indie games space and assumes no prior knowledge of the original Flash Games Postmortem or Flash games in-general
