The Game Developers Conference has been postponed until the summer due to the coronavirus by MattRyanPerez
, the creators of the industry's two leading video game development engines.
Amazon and Activision Blizzard among others today announced they’d be skipping the event; Amazon, like other exhibitors that cancelled their participation, also noted it'd be sharing the content it planned for GDC during an online-only event. While there are no reported cases of the coronavirus in the city, on Tuesday San Francisco mayor London Breed declared a local emergency to prepare for such an event, which state and federal governments will reimburse the city for.
GDC 2019 drew a record-breaking 29,000 video game professionals to San Francisco and featured 550 exhibitors. More than 2,800 people have died from the coronavirus with over 82,000 known cases of infection globally.GDC is an important event for top companies to announce industry-specific news and share insight during panels, but it's also a key meeting place for small indie designers who will now have to deal with the sunken cost of airfare and hotel fees. The global online game conference Gamedev.world is holding a fundraiser to help pool money for those impacted.
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