ARVORE at GDC 2024

ARVORE is present in every GDC, and it’s always a great opportunity to learn and make connections! In the last edition, which took place from March 18th to 22nd, our Game Developer Danilo Machado Delponte and our Creative Director Rodrigo Blanco were present and told us a little about the general feeling of the event this year.

"It's impressive how easy it is to meet and talk to industry giants at this event, everyone is open to discussing what we are all passionate about doing, which is video games. Being at the event leaves people open to any type of conversations about what is being lectured as well as topics that may arise in the round tables that are opened immediately after a lecture."

Rodrigo Blanco - ARVORE’s creative director

We were at the event mainly to attend the summit talks and learn about new tools and technologies. Not to mention get in touch with the best developers around the globe.

There were lots of great presentations, such as Unity, Unreal, Meta and NVidia. We had the chance to contact some relevant creators, from SuperHot, ShapesXR and Cubism, for example. As a personal goal, I wanted to gather this knowledge and bring it back home to the team here at ARVORE

From a more VRwise perspective, the event had a whole section called "Future Realities" dedicated to the XR realm in general. The talks and panels in this section were almost all full and had several amazing presentations such as the ones by Schell Games, from “I Expect You to Die”, including one by Jesse Schell himself, on how he sees the future of MR. It’s always great to see XR in the spotlight in events like this.

As for ARVORE in front of the stage, we had Ana Ribeiro , creator of the Pixel Ripped franchise, presenting a panel about how the last decade in the Brazillian game development scenario was, along with 4 other players from the Brazilian market. Each one spoke about their journey and transformation in the promising Brazilian game development industry.

Rodrigo M. Terra , our CTE and president of Abragames, gave another speech, showcasing Brazil’s current numbers on the gaming market and why Brazil is in a great wave of investment in the games industry.

We had the opportunity to experience the GDC Expo, which started on the third day of the event, with a large number of booths ranging from major companies such as Meta, Unreal, and Unity to many Indie companies showcasing their tools. These showcases, in turn, ranged from stuff in motion capture, and artificial intelligence (for both scene understanding and content generation). Also, there were a plethora of games like VRider, a VR Superbike Racing game, and Racket Club a Mixed Reality Racket game.

There were some game experiments from students there as well, like a game that you played using a real barcode scanner, so you would advance in the game scanning barcodes in the screen and some that were printed right there for you, to select which tools you would use and select an object on the screen, or the unclogging toilet game.

“It is a gathering of the best game creators, a place where indies and major developers meet to share experiences, inspire and learn with each other, pushing the game development to the next level.”

Danilo Delponte - ARVORE’s Game Developer

Having the opportunity to meet so many great creators, exchange experiences and take a glimpse of the future of what is coming next was for sure the highlight of the whole event!

Many people we met there knew ARVORE from our Pixel Ripped series, and it goes without saying how great this feeling was! As an indie studio, it’s important to have the chance to see what these great creators are working on and have the opportunity to discuss all this with them. It was good to see that we are not far behind the top XR developers in the world, and realize we are in fact side-by-side with them!

Here’s to next year’s GDC! We are very much looking forward to it! :)