The annual Game Developers Conference is "very narrow-minded," EA Mythic's creative director Paul Barnett recently told RockPaperShotgun.
"I'm not going to GDC because it's combative, it's a peacock display and it's full of people who do what I do or want to do what I do or are doing what I do and don't want me to do it anymore," Barnett said.
"I have to listen to people who say things which I find ultimately stupid. And I have to pay attention to people I don't want to pay attention to," he added.
Instead, Barnett prefers the annual LIFT conference, founded by friend Laurent Haug. LIFT, a European futurism conference, is, as Barnett puts it, "right on the cusp between Hippy Nonsense meets interesting teetering on commercial."
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Barnett On: Why I Don’t Go To GDC [RockPaperShotgun]
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