Almost 2,000 visit China GDC career fair

The CMP Game Group has announced that GDC China has exceeded their expectations.

More than 700 people attended the conferences, the majority coming from the local Chinese game industry. Nearly 2000 attendees visited the Tools Display Expo and Career Fair that was held in conjunction with the conference.

"By assembling a high-caliber group of individuals with global perspective, the inaugural GDC China provided a forum to share both region-specific and cross-cultural lessons in game development," said Greg Short, director of platform product management, Sony Online Entertainment, who keynoted the online track. "Moving forward, as the event grows and evolves so will the opportunity for attendees and presenters to benefit from the diversity and enthusiasm I saw in this yearâs conference."

Plans are already underway for the 2008 event, with continued support from the Chinese government.

Top Chinese and international game companies, including Ubisoft, Nokia, NVIDIA, Electronic Arts, International Games System, Wingking Entertainment, Shanda, XPEC Entertainment Inc., Epic Games China, Shanghai Zizhu, 9you, Netease, Tencent, Red 5 Studios, and Ultizen participated in the conference.