2007 Austin GDC Announces Call For Submissions

The CMP Game Group has announced a call for submissions for the recently announced 2007 Austin Game Developers Conference, which will take place September 5-7, 2007 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. The event, which CMP acquired from The Game Initiative in October 2006, will utilize the same same dates, location, and advisory board of previous Austin Game Conferences, and offer four distinct conference tracks. Abstracts can be submitted at the official Austin GDC website, and take the form of lectures, roundtables, and panel sessions. The topics which a prospective speaker can address must fall within one of the event's established tracks, loosely modeled after the successful elements of previous Austin Game Conferences. These tracks will be dedicated to audio for games, writing for games, and online games, the last of which has four sub-tracks for business and management, community and marketing, design, and technlogy and services. In addition, the event will include a new People's Choice track featuring the sessions community members want to see most, and all proposals that do not fit into one of the other three tracks will be offered for voting on the People's Choice voting website. The deadline for submissions is Monday, April 30, 2007. In addition to these four main tracks, Austin GDC will also feature a Game Career Seminar for students and job-changers researching entry into the game industry, and a Career Fair for experienced game developers seeking new job opportunities. More information, including session content, speaker guidelines, registration information, and sales opportunities for the conference (run by the CMP Game Group, as is Gamasutra) can be found on the official Austin Game Developers Conference website.