The global developer and publisher of video games, Tencent Games, has announced that it is heading to The Games Developers Conference (GDC). This year, the Games Developer Conference is taking place from March 20 to 24, 2023 and Tencent Games will be there to highlight game technology and development tools. During GDC 2023, with a record number of 18 sessions and a booth exhibition, Tencent Games will showcase its latest innovations and share its experience and knowledge in mobile game development with the industry.
The sessions organized by Tencent Games will cover a wide range of topics, including machine learning, large-scale and cinematic rendering, next-generation mobile game development techniques, audio techniques, and efficiency tools for pipeline management. The lineup includes many of Tencent Games’ exciting titles, including Honor of Kings and Return to Empire from TiMi Studio Group, START Cloud Game, the upcoming title Arena Breakout from Morefun Studio, and Funcom’s highly anticipated Dune: Awakening along with the presentation on the game development tool CloudFlow Pipeline and the CROS Game Engine developed by Tencent Games Common R&D and Operation Systems (CROS).
Tencent Games will have its own booth as well where attendees will be able to experience the power of game technology through the Digital Great Wall cloud game, a cultural heritage conservation project, using CROS Game Engine to create a cloud-based video game of the Great Wall in China. The booth will also showcase Tencent’s latest game development tools such as Game AIR, a platform for game AI development based on machine learning; Artigician, a series of smart tools for art production; and Anti-Cheat Expert, an anti-cheat product developed by Tencent Games CROS.
The complete list of sessions and other details on Tencent Games at GDC 2023 are:
Tencent Games Developer Summit
Building A Digital Great Wall with A New Game Engine
- Yingpeng Zhang | Technical Expert, CROS, Tencent Games
- Tuesday, March 21 | 9:30am – 10:00am
- Room 3022, West Hall
Cloudflow Pipeline: A Catalyst for the Improvement of R&D Efficiency
- Rui Ryan Su | Senior SRE Manager, Tencent Games
- Tuesday, March 21 | 10:00am – 10:30am
- Room 3022, West Hall
Arena Breakout: Creating A Next-gen FPS Game on Mobile
- Yiming Sun | Producer of Arena Breakout, Morefun Studio, Tencent Games
- Tuesday, March 21 | 10:50am – 11:20am
- Room 3022, West Hall
TiMi Audio Lab: Sound Design for Honor of Kings
- Hongfei Zhao | Deputy Director, TiMi Audio Lab, Tencent Games
- Tuesday, March 21 | 11:20am – 11:50am
- Room 3022, West Hall
Conference
Machine Learning Summit: Differentiable Rendering for Scalable Asset Pipeline in ‘Honor of Kings’
- Fei Ling | Lead Engine Programmer, TiMi Studio Group, Tencent Games
- Frei Zhang | Senior Engine Programmer, TiMi Studio Group, Tencent Games
- Tuesday, March 21 | 5:30pm – 6:30pm
- Room 2010, West Hall
Machine Learning Summit: Advanced Heightmap Compression Using Deep Learning in ‘Dune: Awakening’
- Calle Lejdfors | R&D Technical Director, Level Infinite, Tencent Games
- Clemens Rögner | Senior R&D Programmer, Level Infinite, Tencent Games
- Tuesday, March 21 | 1:20pm – 1:50pm
- Room 2010, West Hall
Practical High-Performance Rendering On Mobile Platforms
- Xiaoxin Guo | Senior Rendering Engineer, TiMi Studio Group, Tencent Games
- Thursday, March 23 | 2:00pm – 2:30pm
- Room 2016, West Hall
Thousands of Soldiers Battle on One Mobile Screen: Applications of Unity’s DOTS in ‘Return to Empire’
- Jian Xiao | Lead Client Programmer, TiMi Studio Group, Tencent Games
- Cangjian Hou | Lead Engine Programmer, TiMi Studio Group, Tencent Games
- Thursday, March 23 | 3:00pm – 3:30pm
- Room 2002, West Hall
BroadLeaf: Real-Time Cinematic Rendering of Large-Scale Forests
- Yixin Hu | Senior Graphics Researcher, Pixel Lab, Tencent Games
- Thursday, March 23 | 4:00pm – 5:00pm
- Room 301, South Hall
Expo
Gameplay – Digital Great Wall Cloud Game
- Tech Show – Anti-Cheating Expert / Digital Content Creation (Artigician) / Game AI (Game AIR)
- March 22-24
- Booth No.S963
For additional details, you can check out the official social accounts of Tencent Games on Twitter or LinkedIn.
