GDC 2022 drew 12K attendees in person and 5K online
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The Game Developers Conference drew more than 12,000 industry professionals to attend in-person in San Francisco last week. And another 5,000 joined GDC 2022 on the online platform.
The show was the largest conference in San Francisco since the start of the pandemic, taking place at the Moscone Convention Center from March 21 to March 25.
That is understandably a lot smaller than in pre-pandemic times. In 2019, GDC drew 29,000 people in person. And the number made sense to me, as I attended and saw much smaller crowds than normal for the Moscone sessions as well as the meeting locations such as the local hotel lobbies.
The call for submissions for GDC 2023 will open in the summer. The most crowded sessions I saw included the Game Developers Choice Awards and the Independent Games Festival (where Daniel Mullins Games’ Inscryption won both Game of the Year awards), which filled up a fair amount of the Moscone Center West Hall ground level.
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There weren’t nearly as many platform events or talks (Unity had some talks, but Epic Games, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and many others did not do their usual large press events or developer events). For me, that meant I focused on meetings, interviews, and conference sessions. It was kind of like the old GDC, which wasn’t a
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