The Top Success Issues of GDC 11: Farmville, Indies and Angry Birds 

2010 turned to be a year of huge success for Zynga and Rovio, which, though lacking multimillion-dollar development projects, still managed to lead the markets of their respective platforms. This precise page of their experience they have been offered to present and share on Game Developers Conference of 2011 (GDC 11), which will hold seven summits: Social & Online Games, Indie, GDC Education, AI, Serious Games, Localization and the GDC Smartphone Summit.

The Social & Online Games summit is a new one added only this year, and this conference will be trusted to Mark Skaggs, Zynga’s executive, to lead. He will present the analysis (“Click Zen: Zynga's Evolution from FarmVille to CityVille”) of Zynga’s two projects’ success: that of Farmville and CityVille, which hauled a 100 million auditory of unique users. The Indie Games Summit, GDC 11 will be led by Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes of Team Meat, the developers of Super Meat Boy. Their lecture - "Team Meat Presents: Super Meat Boy - A Team Meat Meatmortem" – will reveal details and analysis of features development process, contract details, sales numbers; some other aspects of the product’s success, such as why Steam is amazing, the launch of a game that Microsoft didn't believe in and some other issues, as well as will present some mistakes made during the final stages of the product development.

Team Meat benefited even from the recent scuffle they had with the PETA animal activist group regarding the parody the latter launched of Super Meat Boy. This protest, however, brought only additional free publicity to the game. And the Smartphone Summit will be led by the developers of Angry Birds, the project that toppled every other one, even the large green swine. The developer’s, Rovio’s, representative Peter Vesterbacka (the “Head Eagle”) will share their experience of creating a game with such continuous success in his lecture "Angry Birds - An Entertainment Franchise in the Making".

According to the GD Conference’s organizers’ announcement, included in this year's conference will be also several notable releases of the past year, such as Cataclysm, Heavy Rain, World of Warcraft expansion and Quantic Dream's cinematic experience.