Well, it is Spring again, and with it another GDC. This year the whole thing picked up and moved to San Francisco - so everything seems a little bigger, and a little grander than the old haunts of San Jose. I’m sitting here in the press room as lots of folks are checking in, among them Justin Hall from over at Game Girl Advance. Several familiar faces.

Ben Sawyer opened the Serious Games Summit today with an interesting exercise: everyone take a sticky that has on it one of about a thousand government agencies, along with the mission statement for that agency. Come up with a game that helps describe the purpose or mission of that organization. Easy enough, perhaps, for the CIA or the Department of Transportation : but how well can you make a game that describes the purpose of all of the government officies? There were things on that list I don’t think anyone even knew existed…

There aren’t any huge public announcements on anything yet, as the ‘real show’ (ie the tradefloor) doesn’t open until Wednesday - Monday and Tuesday are tutorials and training, except for the SGS. If anything pops up though, I’ll post it here.

More to come as GDC continues!