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March 1-4, 2027
Moscone CenterSan Francisco, CA

Speakers

Find a full list of this year's GDC Festival of Gaming speakers here.

Nessa Cannon, Narrative Designer, Independent

Nessa Cannon is a video game writer and narrative designer with over six years of experience in the industry, on over a dozen shipped titles such as Borderlands 4, Date Everything!, Star Trucker, and the Endoparasitic franchise. She has spoken at GDC, Narrascope, CSU LA, and Northeastern University on interactive fiction and branching techniques. She was previously part of IGDA's Next Gen Leader program as well as Academy of Interactive Arts and Science's Amplifying New Voices cohort. She is also an avid video essay watcher and always gets ink on her hands when changing out her fountain pen.

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