Game Developer Conference 09 is approaching, and Fishing Cactus’ members are preparing the trip. GDC is the biggest conference, and surely the biggest fest for geeks that we surely are. Living in Belgium, we don’t have much opportunity to meet and link with game developer. So if you want to meet us around a beer, that may be the right time.

For some of us, it will be the first conference. I can remember all details of my first GDC 4 years ago, all this stuff was brand new, I was not yet working in the game industry. I was really interested in making games, but that first conference made me change : I knew I wanted to write games for a living. I had the chance to meet Yves Grolet, former CEO of Elsewhere Entertainment ( aka 10Tacle Studios Belgium ), in the main hall, attracted by the fact he was speaking French. He then gave me the chance to work for him, first on a medium-scale project on previous generation platforms, then as a team leader on our next-gen project Totems. Unfortunately, our mother company sunk and we had to follow her. But the need to create games did not disappear. And that’s how Fishing Cactus was started.

Enough memories. Fishing Cactus is also active at the GDC. I, as a founder of Fishing Cactus, will present a 60-minute lecture for the AI Summit. The lecture is called “Parallelism in AI: Multithreading Strategies and Opportunities for Multi-core Architectures”. You can find more information about it on the GDC website

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