On Monday, I’ll be flying out to San Francisco to attend my first Game Developers Conference. I’m thrilled to finally have the chance to see the hustle and bustle of this event, and will at the very least, be tweeting about it while there. I’ll be presenting within a quick “blast session” about Miami’s Global Game Jam efforts this year, which I helped out a bit with. Other than that, it’s just attending the conference talks, keynotes, networking, and hitting up one of the “summits.”

I was torn between the Serious Games Summit and the Indie Games Summit, and eventually chose the latter — while games designed for “serious” aims are much of what I do, I find myself more and more interested in the directions that the “indie” world is going in. How are games moving from being seen as a tool or delivery device (something I see as at least historically typifying “serious games”) to being seen as a valuable mode of expression (something I hope is underlying some of the indie games movement)? I have no idea if either of these assumptions were correct or faulty, and might see if I can bounce between the two while there — both of these summits have stellar line-ups this year!

If you’re reading this and are also going to be at GDC, please drop me a line either here, on Twitter, Facebook, or via email. I’d love to meet up with peoples, grab a beer or coffee, and get to know ya!