I just got back from a few days at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. My company sent me along with 6 co-workers to check out the latest in game development from leading experts in the field. It wasn’t actually all that great. My company only gave us 2 conference passes and 4 exhibit passes. So, we had to share the confernece passes to get into the sessions. I was able to sit in on an AI round table, which was actually pretty interesting. I was sitting with people that did the AI for Command and Conquerer, the Sims, Age of Empire, and more. But that was about the extent of the trip. On the last day, a couple of us went to China town before catching the flight back to San Diego. Lesson here is, if you’re going to send employees on a trip and pay for the airplane, food, and hotel, make sure you get enough passes to make the trip worth while.
