Anything interesting to report from people that have been at GDC? Both Defold related or not?
Personally I got interested in Defold from one of the talks that was given many years ago when it was still under the King umbrella
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We didn’t do any talks at GDC, but we should consider it for next year if we decide to go again. My personal observation was that the expo felt smaller this year with fewer exhibitors. A lot of meetings, meetups and things were going on in the nearby hotels rather than at Moscone center.
Poki had a large booth and from what I heard a good amount of traffic coming by each day. @AGulev spent most of his time with Poki and can tell more.
Planetary Processing were also there at the expo. I had a chat with Sam Sully (founder) and there was a lot of interest in their service. Sam told me that they are very eager to find a developer/team interested in building a game using Defold and Planetary Processing. Are you interested? Reach out to me here or directly to Sam in the Planetary Processing channel on the Defold Discord server.
Rive were also there at the expo. Everyone on the Rive team were very happy with the interest in Rive at GDC. For me personally it was very nice to see Defold being promoted next to Unity and Unreal! 
We (Defold) had a lot of good meetings with existing and potential new partners. I can’t really share much at the moment, but I am very excited for the future of Defold.
I didn’t have much time to attend talks, but the ones I did attend were pretty good. I attended one cool talk about the fluid simulations in Astrobot and another good one about best practices when bujilding prototypes.
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I saw someone from the Defold team at GDC and really wanted to say hi! We were both at the Nordic Breakfast, which was I think on Tuesday. I was an Indian guy in glasses and was chatting up everyone there.
Also, anecdotally, i will also say GDC felt smaller this year. I was absolutely shocked that Unity and Unreal didn’t have booths this year, especially since Unreal had one of the best booths last year. You could really feel the financial pressures on the game industry…
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Oh, you should have come by and said hi (and received some Defold swag as a bonus)! It was me, @JCash and @jhonny.goransson at the Nordic Breakfast!
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