I have flocked here with my fellow game developers to observe the high holiday of GDC. Having observed last year at the lowly level of “Main Conference Attendee” I am looking forward to attending tutorials in the coming two days before the conference begins. I’ll be attending Level Design in a Day: Best Practices from the Best in the Business tomorrow, I can’t wait to sponge in some wisdom.

I managed to grab my pass and bag-o-swag tonight before the pre-registration closed (a half hour before to be precise) in doing so I foolishly looked over my session choices (as the registration PC suggested I do) only to be kicked out of the registration process from a time-out. So I hurried through after that and must have missed the text fields for nickname, twitter and job title! If you’re an attendee or ever plan to be, don’t do this! I feel like an idiot, and am seriously considering paying the lost ID fee for a new one.

I’ll be taking every opportunity throughout the week to live blog @designerdougm. (My personal twitter so expect random irrelevant silliness and food pictures!) That being said, live blogging only goes so far. So I’ll throw up my notes, pics and compiled tweets on here as often as I can (hopefully at the end of every day.)

If you’re looking for bleeding-edge moment to moment announcements or something like that, you’re definitely in the wrong place. But hopefully I’ll have some interesting tales to tell and takeaways from the coming sessions. Or at the very least some interesting pictures.

Until then!