From its humble beginnings in a private home, GDC grew to 29,000 visitors in 2019. This is the history of the world's largest gathering of game designers -- and how it changed from an idealistic venture into a multi million dollar business. Our thanks to Bob Bates, Chris Crawford, Gordon Walton, Julian Eggebrecht, Louis Castle, Noah Falstein, Roland Austinat, Simon Carless, Steve Meretzky, Warren Spector and all the others who made this documentary possible! German version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqpzBzcvUdw This project is not for profit and was crowdfunded by the community of http://www.gamersglobal.de/ . If you are interested in contributing as a latebird (and get additional content), please have a look here: https://www.gamersglobal.de/video/the-history-of-game-developers-conference-documentary But it's really okay to just watch the free version :-)