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The Salutations, everybody, it is Maddie here today.

Welcome to episode 271 of Defining Duke and Xbox podcast today. I'm joined by

the man on another coast in another building in a conference room nonetheless. Lord Cognito,

where are you, sir? The background's not giving it away. Tell us where you are. What do you want?

Yeah, it's so confusing where I'm at right I'm in San Francisco shout out to my niners but we are here for

GDC game developer conference my first one and thank you thank you sir and yeah man it's been a lot

it's been a lot been hitting the ground running and yeah I've command hitting the ground running. And, yeah, I've commandeered a conference room. And we'll see how long I can be here before I get thrown out. Yeah. Yeah. So this defining Duke has a lot of Xbox energy. We're kind of slapping things together here, putting the train tracks as we go along the rails here. It's exactly what's

happening. So we basically learned late that like cogs internet wasn't hot out there, but cogs

on the ground level. Like we got to get the inside scoop. What's happened in the building.

So this is an incidentally more streamlined DD. It's another one of those like what we're playing

episodes and then we dive right into the big heavy hitters. I apologize because I know it's more understandable like when Phil and Sarah leave and we got like a three hour section on that one topic. That was definitely not the plan this week, but that's what we can mainly muster because I didn't want to like shoot the signal flare if cog could make it. So it was one of those last minute bang bang play. So we appreciate your patience and your understanding, but we got our man on the ground floor. I just want to hear a little bit about GDC, though. How's it been for you? Is it your first one, right? Yeah, it's first one, man. It's like college. It's like you go and you set your courses for the day. Okay. And it's like, all right, I got GDC one-on-one. I got, you know, game development, music, audio, you know, at 2 o'clock. And, you know, you scared your little badge. You go into the course. And then they do your little lectures. There's networking opportunities as well. But this is really developer-centric. And people making pitches, people trying to get the game out, it's publishing, it's funding,

there's reveal.

So it's, it's, it's more encompassing.

It's definitely not like a creative event, but if you care about the education of learning

how to make a game, how to get game shipped, or people trying to train or teach. There's a lot of like

almost almost like a seminar kind of thing. They're legit college courses, you know, there was a couple

that I sat in that was super informative and just just talking about the process and the struggles

that people have it. I went into the one that we're talking about, you know, the dangers of AI

and how people are concerned about certain things and, you know, bro, it was, these are some of the best conversation. And you can tell when developers are next to each other and, like, you can see, like, this is how deals get made. These are how ideas get created. You know, that kind of thing. And then obviously, the who's who of the industry is here. So, yeah, man, it's been excited. I got a chance to cover a lot of games myself personally. Everybody's doing their little offshoots events. Oh, come check out my game in the pet household, too's hotel suite, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know what I'm saying? And then I would see the major players. Of course, Xbox is here. Didn't realize my tweet would go viral just about marketing.

So that told me a lot, you know, in terms of.

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