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Expo Floor Competition Sponsor

TheLoop is a new social discovery and broadcast network. It equips you, the user, with a unique system that helps you relate to and share with your world in a variety of different and exciting ways. Developers will find great growth opportunities with our easy-to-use API. In association with the GDC, TheLoop is hosting a competition where participants can win up to $10,000 plus daily convention prizes.

Daily conference prizes announced Wednesday at 4:30pm, Thursday at 4:30pm, and Friday at 1:30pm.

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Independent Games Festival (IGF) Sponsors

IGF Student Competition Platinum Sponsor
DigiPen Institute of Technology, located in Redmond, Washington, has been providing highly capable programmers and production artists to the electronic games industry for over 14 years. With a rigorous curriculum endorsed by industry leading companies and taught by world-renowned faculty, DigiPen graduates represent some of the industry's most sought after employees and respected game development leaders.
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IGF Student Competition Platinum Sponsor
Microsoft Studios is Microsoft's entertainment publishing arm, and Microsoft Studios XBLA has published some of the best games for Xbox LIVE Arcade. We're eager to continue to support and empower independent developers to deliver fantastic, innovative and ground-breaking entertainment experiences on Microsoft platforms. See what we're up to at http://playxbla.com/
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IGF Student Competition Gold Sponsor
Research In Motion is a leading designer, manufacturer, and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. RIM's portfolio of award-winning products, services, and embedded technologies include the BlackBerry® wireless platform, the RIM Wireless Handheld™ product line, software development tools, radio-modems, and software/hardware licensing agreements.
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IGF Student Competition Gold Sponsor
ENJMIN Become a worldwide-recognized artist, designer, programmer or researcher. ENJMIN, The Graduate School of Games and Interactive Media is a one-stop shop for the games and new media profession. Get a Master, Engineering or PhD degree in France, or get them as an accreditation from your professional experience.
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IGF Student Competition Gold Sponsor
ISART DIGITAL is a leading institute specialised in Video Game and CG Animation. The School, based in Paris, has developed strong links with the best international studios. The School's reputation is also based on its students' projects (awards, commercialisations) and its international partnership with NCC, a Japanese video game school.
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IGF Student Competition Gold Sponsor
OnLive is a revolutionary concept in video games, instantly delivering the latest games on demand through the Internet with the simplicity of streaming video. Take your game seamlessly across PCs, Macs, TVs, smartphones and tablets with no discs, no downloads and no upgrades necessary. Learn more at www.onlive.com/developer.
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GDC Experience Sponsor

MHL technology, created by a Consortium founded by Nokia, Samsung, Silicon Image, Sony and Toshiba, is an interface that delivers no-latency HD video while also charging the smartphone. Play mobile games for hours on the big screen to expand your mobile world.

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GDC Play Networking Lounge

Platinum Sponsor
Digital Capital pairs investors with developers of digital video games. We identify the games and raise the funds. With our expertise in production, publishing and financial planning we support our projects to the max, from concept to completion. www.digitalcapital.ch

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GDC Play Welcome Kit Sponsor

Get real-world training with the education experts in game programming, games design and animation at the Academy of Interactive Entertainment. We've been getting graduates into the games industry worldwide for the past 15 years – proven results that our 1-4 year courses provide the practical skills to get your career in games started.
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Monetization

Platinum Sponsor
With 15 plus years of experience and more than $10 billion in annual online transactions, Digital River is the global e-commerce partner that game publishers and developers depend on for the comprehensive solutions they need to monetize their game revenue – from in-store solutions and micro-transactions to subscriptions and payment programs.

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Platinum Sponsor
Xsolla specializes in online games, providing localized in-game payment solutions with easy integration and high conversion. Partnering with over 200 payment service providers worldwide, Xsolla enables gaming publishers the ability to accept credit and pre-paid cards, cash and e-cash, direct debit, payment kiosks and offers- all with no installation, currency exchange or chargeback fees.

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Gold Sponsor
PlaySpan provides game developers a trusted monetization platform for safe, convenient and user-friendly in-app purchases of virtual goods, accepting over 85 payment methods in 180 countries. Our digital goods monetization platform is trusted to power Disney, Nickelodeon, Warner Bros. Ubisoft, NCSoft and other popular online games and apps.

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Parties/Networking

Career Pavilion Bar
Blizzard Entertainment is the premier software developer and publisher behind World of Warcraft® and the Warcraft®, StarCraft®, and Diablo® series. Blizzard's record includes thirteen #1 sellers and multiple Game of the Year awards. Its online-gaming service, Battle.net®, is one of the world's largest, with millions of active players.
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Interactive Lounge
Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC (SCEA) is responsible for keeping PlayStation® growing and thriving in North America and Latin America. Based in Foster City, California, SCEA serves as headquarters for all North American operations and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America Inc.
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Career Pavilion Happy Hour
Check out for yourself how amazing it is to work at Microsoft– join Hiring Managers & Recruiters for game play & drinks. Raffle prizes include – 3 All Access Passes to the GDC Event of your choice.
www.MicrosoftJobs-Entertainment.com
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Lobby Bar
Located in the Moscone North Lobby, the Microsoft Lobby Bar is the social center of GDC. Meet up with friends, grab a drink and check out the latest entertainment blockbusters from Xbox 360, Kinect, Windows Phone and more. www.microsoft.com
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Badge Insert Sponsorship

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Canada has technical and creative talent built around a robust digital media sector with 30,000+ companies and very attractive R&D; tax benefits. If you are interested in doing business with Canada visit us during GDC at the Canada Business Lounge, 4th Floor, Intercontinential Hotel, 888 Howard Street, March 6th - 9th.
 

Games for Change Summit Sponsor

Platinum Sponsor
Electronic Arts is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment. The Company's game franchises are offered as both packaged goods products and online services delivered through Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets. EA has more than 100 million registered players and operates in 75 countries.
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Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit Sponsor

Platinum Sponsor
The AT&T; Developer Program is your official resource for wireless development. Your free membership gains you access to technical whitepapers, webcasts, toolkits, device specs, technical support, newsletters, and special developer events and contests. Get the tools needed to build, test, onboard and certify applications across a range of devices, OSes and platforms at http://developer.att.com
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Platinum Sponsor
GREE is a leading mobile social gaming company that is currently developing a global platform with a focus on free-to-play games. In addition to opening their own social games studio in the US, GREE acquired OpenFeint in April 2011 and their ecosystem now reaches over 150 million players worldwide and offers over 7,500 games.
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Platinum Sponsor
Kontagent is the leading user analytics platform for developers, marketers, product managers and strategic partners across the social and mobile Web. Our proprietary platform kSuite has been built from the ground up to provide deep social data pattern visualization and analysis that delivers actionable insights via an on-demand service. www.kontagent.com
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Gold Sponsor
Ludei is a San Francisco based games technology firm aimed at wrapping HTML5/javascript games for iOS and Android platforms with zero coding cost. Ludei has produced successful titles for iOS and Android with more than 15 million downloads from 100+ countries. It's now focused on providing developers with the best cross-platform technology.
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Gold Sponsor
Serving over 25 million members, MocoSpace is the largest community on the mobile web. The MocoSpace game platform allows developers to bring their HTML5 mobile games in front of this audience while tapping into the social graph and supercharging the game experience with virtual currency, leaderboards, and persistent rewards. MocoSpace - Play Games, Make Friends
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Tabletop Sponsor
AdColony is the premium mobile video ad network featuring Instant-Play™ HD video technology and the groundbreaking Videos-for-Virtual-Currency™ (V4VC™) SDK. Focused on helping app developers drive significant monetization, AdColony delivers premium CPM campaigns from the biggest advertisers in the world. Sign up today in the Developer Integration Center of AdColony.com!
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Tabletop Sponsor
App Annie is the industry leader in app store analytics and market intelligence with more than 60% of the Top 100 iOS publishers using our services including companies like EA, Storm8, Rovio and Zynga. App Annie is proud to offer App Annie Intelligence, our premium service offering the most accurate market intelligence data available for app stores. With Android support launching in February, it's a good time to be an App Annie user.
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Tabletop Sponsor
ARM designs the technology that is at the heart of advanced digital products. The ARM® Mali™ family of GPUs scale up to multicore solutions and GPU Computing applications. The Mali Developer Center www.malideveloper.com brings together a vibrant community for highest quality graphics across consumer devices, from mainstream mobile phones through to Smart TVs. www.malideveloper.com
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Tabletop Sponsor
Beintoo is the first white label mobile gamification and rewards technology that creates a true profitable gamification layer. Through a set of SDKs or APIs you can easily introduce involving cross-platform game mechanics, cross-app promotion and smart monetization tools. Deliver to your deserving users sponsored rewards, such as real mobile coupons or virtual coins convertible in real deals and monetize. Introduce a platform fully integrated in the app user experience and start monetization as it should be.
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Tabletop Sponsor
Headquartered in Beijing, CocoaChina hosts the largest iOS developer community in China. CocoaChina aims to help developers cross culture barrier between China and the world in both directions. The company is also a top game developer with more than 30 million installs and 3 million DAU on iOS and Android.
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Tabletop Sponsor
NCsoft is a leading developer and publisher of online, casual, and mobile games. Today NCsoft is home to numerous industry-leading franchises, including Aion, City of Heroes, Guild Wars, and Lineage. With offices Asia, Europe, and North America, NCsoft games entertain and delight players around the world.
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Tabletop Sponsor
NVIDIA awakened the world to computer graphics when it invented the GPU in 1999. From its roots in visual computing, the company expanded into parallel and mobile computing. One of the most complex processors ever created, the GPU is the engine of computer graphics: the science and art of using technology to create and enjoy beautiful, interactive experiences. NVIDIA has shipped over one billion GPUs.
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Tabletop Sponsor
Vserv.mobi is a leading Global Mobile Ad Network with strong presence in emerging markets. Vserv's pioneering technology AppWrapperTM powers ad-monetisation for 10000+ Apps. AppWrapperTM is the World's Simplest Ad integration for Android & J2ME Apps. It enables premium Full Screen Ads, without coding, in just one click. Visit www.vserv.mobi for more details
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Social and Online Games Summit

 
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Platinum Sponsor
As a top-10 games publisher to Facebook, GSN Digital apps include GSN Games, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, and the soon-to-be-released GSN Casino for mobile devices. GSN (Game Show Network) is owned by DIRECTV and Sony Pictures Entertainment, GSN Digital is the interactive division of GSN.
 

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Platinum Sponsor
Android and iOS's leading social games network with a full suite of social features, diverse set of monetization tools, and the fastest 2D OpenGL cross platform game engine. PapayaMobile provides both tools for game developers and content for players on its growing social mobile network of over 40 million users worldwide.
 
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Platinum Sponsor
Pokki is an application platform that is re-inventing the desktop by empowering developers to create beautiful applications and immersive games built with HTML5. Pokki offers the same kind of elegant and easy app experience you have come to expect from iOS and mobile devices right on the PC.
 

Official Wireless Sponsor

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Georgia, USA has the right mix of elements to take your game to the next level - a strong pipeline of experienced, creative talent; smart, progressive communities; outstanding technology infrastructure; and direct access to the global market. Visit the Georgia Pavilion to hear why more than 75 other digital entertainment companies already call Georgia home.
 

Developer Day Sponsors

Facebook is a social utility that helps people connect with their friends. In May 2007, Facebook opened its Platform to enable developers to integrate with the site and reach millions of people through social apps, and later websites and devices.
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Google connects millions of people around the world with important information every day. Its innovative technologies enable game developers to build, distribute, promote and monetize games across platforms.
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PrimeSense™ is the leader in Natural Interaction® sensing and recognition solutions that revolutionize the way people interact with the digital world by providing digital devices with a 3D perception of reality, creating an immersive digital entertainment experience which enables users to participate simply by using body movements and gestures.
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Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM)is the world leader in 3G and next-generation mobile technologies. For more than 25 years, Qualcomm ideas and inventions have driven the evolution of digital communications, linking people everywhere more closely to information, entertainment and each other.
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Unity Technologies is revolutionizing the game industry with Unity, its breakthrough development platform.  Unity is being used by Bigpoint, Cartoon Network, Disney, EA, LEGO, Ubisoft and Warner Bros., large and small studios, indies, students and hobbyists to create high-quality 3D games on the web, iOS, Android, consoles and beyond.
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T-Shirt Sponsor

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Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC (SCEA) markets the PlayStation® family of products and develops, publishes, markets, and distributes software for the PlayStation®2, the PlayStation Portable (PSP™), the PSPgo, the PlayStation® Network (PSN) and the PlayStation®3 for North America. SCEA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
 

Hotel Keycard Sponsor

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"With offices in Uppsala (Stockholm), London, Belgrade and Los Angeles, Imagination Studios provides professional art, animation, performance motion capture and trailer production with fast turnaround, high quality, and reliability. Key titles include: Bad Company 2, Bulletstorm, Kane & Lynch 2, Alan Wake, Battlefield 3 and World of Tanks.".
 

Marketing Sponsors

Gold Sponsor
Intel, the world's largest silicon innovator, creates products and tec hnologies that change the way people live, work and play. Whether it's a mobile lifestyle or a new way to enjoy entertainment at home, Intel is helping people all over the world accomplish things they never before dreamed possible.
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Gold Sponsor
Scottish Development International. Scotland: A country with a unique blend of innovative research, a skilled workforce and a focus on economic growth. Scottish Development International provides advice and practical support for companies looking to grow. Visit us to find out how we can help your business on stand 2108 at GDC. www.sdi.co.uk/dmci
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Silver Sponsor
BigWorld Technology provides developers of online games a competitive advantage by significantly reducing risk, cost and time to market. The BigWorld Technology Suite includes a highly scalable and stable server, robust next-gen client, content creation tools, a library of 3rd party plugins, full support, and accompanying tools. Multiple licensing options are available. www.bigworldtech.com
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Silver Sponsor
Conduit empowers web and mobile publishers to engage their users across multiple platforms, and connect with them wherever they are. Conduit's innovative solutions have made it the fastest-growing network in the world, with more than 260,000 publishers, 250 million users, and billions of monthly engagements.
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Silver Sponsor
iQU™, is a marketing technology platform that forms perfect connections between game developers and gamers to create a more robust marketplace for online games. Using its sophisticated GameriQU™ intelligence platform, iQU maps gamer behavior across the Internet, social media and connected devices.
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Silver Sponsor
Working across web, social media and mobile platforms, Matomy Media Group offers brand and direct response advertisers as well as agencies a range of opportunities integrated through one gateway, including a performance-based affiliate management platform and network, display advertising, search marketing, alternative payment solutions and mobile advertising.
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Silver Sponsor
NCsoft is a leading developer and publisher of online, casual, and mobile games. Today NCsoft is home to numerous industry-leading franchises, including Aion, City of Heroes, Guild Wars, and Lineage. With offices Asia, Europe, and North America, NCsoft games entertain and delight players around the world.
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Silver Sponsor
YoYo Games is the home of GameMaker. the world's most widely used Game Development software. At GDC YoYo Games will launch GameMaker:Studio . This version of GameMaker allows professional developers to target Web, Native Mobile and Desktop formats quickly and easily. Create "App Store Ready" packages for HTML5, IOS, Android, Symbian, Windows, and OSX from the same source.
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Lanyard Sponsor

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Terminal Reality, Dallas-based creators of Ghostbusters: The Video Game and Kinect Star Wars, celebrates its 18th year as one of Texas' largest independent developers and proudly licenses INFERNAL Engine, a full-featured, cross-platform game engine boasting a truly WYSIWYG editor. INFERNAL runs on Xbox 360, PS3, Vita, 3DS, PC, and iOS."
 

Poker Tournament Sponsor

The ISM Charity Poker Tournament brings together a broad mix of video game professionals from across all sectors of the industry and around the globe for a great game of poker in the sixth annual competition to benefit a great cause – Best Buddies California.
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Plasma Screen Showcase


Imagination
Imagination's PowerVR graphics technologies are licensed by world leading companies to power iconic products delivering the best in smartphone, tablet, TV and console Apps and gaming. Not only does Imagination delivers outstanding embedded and ray-tracing graphics technologies but its POWERVR Insider ecosystem provides extensive support and tools for developers.
 
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Unity Technologies is the creator the Unity development platform used to create 3D and 2D content for multiple platforms and boasts a thriving community of 750,000 registered developers including large publishers, indie studios, students and hobbyists. Additional initiatives such as the Asset Store content marketplace and Union distribution services provide unique development opportunities for Unity users.
 

Coffee Break

Intel, the world's largest silicon innovator, creates products and technologies that change the way people live, work and play. Whether it's a mobile lifestyle or a new way to enjoy entertainment at home, Intel is helping people all over the world accomplish things they never before dreamed possible.
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