Eric Dybsand was a pillar of the development community, warm and welcoming to all. His untimely death was a blow to the whole industry, but more so for his specialist field of Artificial Intelligence. Eric was well-known at GDC for being one of the original “3 AI guys” — a group that included Steve Woodcock and Neil Kirby. Together, they ran the AI roundtables — a GDC fixture that continues to this day.

Each year, AI developers gather during GDC to toast his memory, and each year – in Eric’s honor – one student with an interest in AI is chosen to be the recipient of the Eric Dybsand Memorial AI Scholarship and to attend GDC, receiving the welcome and attention that Eric freely gave to others