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[phubans]

Hello friends! I was just wondering if anyone would be gracious enough to hook me up with a [expo] pass to GDC this year? The past three years I've been lucky enough to get a free guest pass one way or another and I'm wondering if that will be the case this year. I don't really use it for much else besides migrating to the IGF stands and meeting up with you lot! And of course, I'd love to see you guys... So perhaps in this thread we can try to make those less fortunate find their way to GDC for the fun and festivities?

[IQpierce]

If anyone is willing to donate a pass, I'm definitely interested in getting one.

In a way you might say I need one less, since I am probably closer to being able to afford one than most indies - I've been a professional game developer for over 7 years, I know tons of people in the industry...

On the other hand, I've been in the industry for 7 years and have NEVER ONCE BEEN TO GDC AAARRRRGH. No employer would ever send me, not even Blizzard - and they're much closer to SF than any of my other employers (I'm in Texas). Super frustrating.

And here's how badly I want to attend a GDC: after GDC 10, I sprung for an account on the GDC Vault, found a way to download all of the mp3 audio tracks of the talks, downloaded over 130 talks (it took me more than, like, 4 hours to pick out all of the talks I wanted and download the MP3s)... and I listened to them all within like 4 months. (I'm a programmer/designer with interest in AI and entrepreneurship and I'm trying to go indie, so yeaaah a lot of the talks were interesting to me...)

Anyway, those passes are frickin expensive and I just can't find it in the budget this year - ironically, going indie has made it more important than ever to go to GDC, but made it harder than ever to afford, as well.

So I don't know if I'm the most needy, but I definitely feel like I'd get as much out of it as anyone else. I also haven't met many other indies in person and would love to finally meet people and feel more like part of the community.

[Evan Balster]

GDC is amazing and will fill you with warm fuzzies.

I have... redirected small amounts of student aid towards the $1000 or so it costs to go.  Twice now.