GDC’s Experimental Gameplay Workshop to highlight real-time creativity

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The Experimental Gameplay Workshop has become a staple of creativity at the Game Developers Conference. It will return this year at the GDC in San Francisco for the 11th year on March 29. The workshop will be hosted by Robin Hunicke (a co-creator of Journey and co-founder of game studio Funomena), Richard Lemarchand, former Naughty Dog game designer and co-creator of the Uncharted series, and Daniel Benmergui (Storyteller).

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.