--- title: GDC 2026 | GDC Side Quest | Samantha Beart | daily.dev description: A brief commentary on how the games industry approaches casting and creative practices, noting that games are increasingly seen as a tech-driven field rather... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/gdc-2026-gdc-side-quest-samantha-beart-wzqgcucjc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: GDC 2026 | GDC Side Quest | Samantha Beart | daily.dev og:description: A brief commentary on how the games industry approaches casting and creative practices, noting that games are increasingly seen as a tech-driven field rather... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/gdc-2026-gdc-side-quest-samantha-beart-wzqgcucjc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WZqGCuCjc.png og:image:alt: GDC 2026 | GDC Side Quest | Samantha Beart og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GDC 2026 | GDC Side Quest | Samantha Beart **[GDC Festival of Gaming](https://daily.dev/sources/gdcfestivalofgaming)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A brief commentary on how the games industry approaches casting and creative practices, noting that games are increasingly seen as a tech-driven field rather than a creative one. The speaker argues that simple, low-cost techniques from traditional entertainment — like table readings and chemistry tests between actors — are being overlooked, leading to expensive mistakes when actor pairings don't work out after going through the full production pipeline. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The key to a great video game performance? 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