Nexon has hosted NDC(Nexon Developers Conference) for the past 5 years. This year, it takes place from May 30 to June 3.

What is NDC? NDC was originally designed for the developers work for Nexon. And it became an industrial conference as Nexon allowed others to participate 80% of the conference. Total 117 sessions will be progressed and only first day will be closed for outsiders.s

NDC 2011 invited DongGun Kim the president of DevCat Studio, Jake Song the CEO of XL Games, Keiji?Inafune the ex-PD of Capcom as well as professors and lawyers interested in the game industry in order to create a place to share broad knowledge each other.

Short interviews are made as follow.

What made NDC an open conference? Every developers and studios want to share their experience of development with systemized environment. So we have started it since last 2006 to meet their desire. But we were not affordable to host such a big conference to the industry since we had never done such conference before. We gradually expanded the size of the conference and finally were able to open the door to the public in this year.

But you could have just kept it inside. Of course. But the fact that we are one of leading online game companies and the oldest made us to change it to an open conference. It sounds little cocky but we believe it is some kind of resposibility. In other words, we thought it would be beneficial to not only us but also the whole industry to grow if we create and encourage a place to share the knowledge about game development voluntarily with the outside.

How would you differenciate it from KGC(Korea Game Conference) or ICON? They are both coomercial while NDC is purely nonprofit. In fact, we are not having any sponsors and generously refuse any proposed sponsorship. Actually the fee for speakers are almost nothing compared to which of other conference.

What hard each session would be? Since they are for the industry people rather than students, I think overal difficulty would be very high.