CMP Game Media Group Announces Advisory Board and Call for Abstracts For 15th Annual Game Developers Conference

PRNewswire
SAN FRANCISCO
Aug 7, 2000

CMP Game Media Group, producers of the world's largest annual gathering of game developers, has announced the Advisory Board for its Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2001 (http://www.gdconf.com/), a trade-only event that will take place at the San Jose Convention Center, March 20-24, 2001. This year's board, a who's who in the interactive gaming arena, includes:

  Hal Barwood, LucasArts Entertainment     Rob Huebner, Nihilistic Software
  Louis Castle, Westwood Studios           Cyrus Lum, Inevitable
                                            Entertainment
  Mark DeLoura, Game Developer             Dale Mauk, Hypnos Entertainment
  Alex Dunne, Gamasutra.com                Mark Miller, IA-Sig
  Julian Eggebrecht, Factor 5              Peter Molyneux, Lionhead Studios
  Ron Gilbert                              David Perry, Shiny Entertainment
  Chris Hecker, definition six             Jason Rubin, Naughty Dog
  Elaine Hodgson, Incredible Technologies  Alan Yu, CMP Game Media Group
  Roger Holzberg, Walt Disney              Jez San, Argonaut Games
   Imagineering

CMP Game Media Group also announced a call for speaking proposals at the GDC with a deadline of October 3rd. The submission form can be found at http://www.gdconf.com/speakers/.

"The world's most influential developers sit on our GDC Advisory Board and define the conference agenda -- a unique event that is designed by game developers for game developers," said Alan Yu, director, Game Developers Conference. "The conference program creates open and unbiased exchange of information and ideas which is the spirit of the GDC."

The CMP Game Media Group includes the Game Developers Conference, the GAMEXecutive Conference, the Independent Games Festival, Gamasutra.com, Game Developer magazine, and CMP Game Media Research reports. For more information on the CMP Game Media Group please visit http://www.cmpgame.com/. In addition, the group manages the International Game Developers Association (http://www.igda.org/), an independent non-profit organization serving game developers.

CMP Media Inc. (http://www.cmpnet.com/) is a leading high-tech media company providing essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum-the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide. Capitalizing on its editorial strength, CMP is uniquely positioned to offer marketers comprehensive, integrated media solutions tailored to meet their individual needs. Its diverse products and services include newspapers, magazines, Internet products, research, direct marketing services, education and training, trade shows and conferences, custom publishing, testing and consulting.

SOURCE: CMP Game Media Group

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or Adam Weiler, 415-391-2994, or Adam_weiler@bhimpact.com, both of
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