Comments on: GDC08: Gaming’s Future via Online Worlds http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/02/19/gdc08-gamings-future-via-online-worlds/ Internet Gaming, Computer Games, Technology, MMO, and Web 2.0 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:30:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Developing new worlds at First Drafts - The Prospect magazine blog http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/02/19/gdc08-gamings-future-via-online-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-1552 Developing new worlds at First Drafts - The Prospect magazine blog Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:03:38 +0000 http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/02/19/gdc08-gamings-future-via-online-worlds/#comment-1552 [...] An old friend of mine has been involved in the gaming industry for the last decade, and is currently out at the GDC, networking his socks off and blogging regularly on some of the conference’s main speaking events. Even for those who know about games, there’s plenty of food for thought in his write-ups. As an amateur enthusiast, though, his account of one particular conference talk struck a chord with me—on “gaming’s future via online worlds.” [...] [...] An old friend of mine has been involved in the gaming industry for the last decade, and is currently out at the GDC, networking his socks off and blogging regularly on some of the conference’s main speaking events. Even for those who know about games, there’s plenty of food for thought in his write-ups. As an amateur enthusiast, though, his account of one particular conference talk struck a chord with me—on “gaming’s future via online worlds.” [...]

]]> By: adam http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/02/19/gdc08-gamings-future-via-online-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-1529 adam Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:34:02 +0000 http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/02/19/gdc08-gamings-future-via-online-worlds/#comment-1529 I was walking past the Turbine booth today and spotted Jeffrey standing there, so I asked him about the point I made in my summary (that the only good things he waxed lyrical on were all "free" side-effects of integrating google-maps, and he didn't seem to have any other ideas to talk about). Short answer: he has lots of great ideas and there's lots of innovative stuff they're doing in this area right now ... but he's not going to share any of them publically. Fair enough. Although if that's the case I'm pretty disappointed that they have to be so secretive about it. I doubt they're doing anything that anyone else could directly compete with and needs to be kept secret until complete. I was walking past the Turbine booth today and spotted Jeffrey standing there, so I asked him about the point I made in my summary (that the only good things he waxed lyrical on were all “free” side-effects of integrating google-maps, and he didn’t seem to have any other ideas to talk about).

Short answer: he has lots of great ideas and there’s lots of innovative stuff they’re doing in this area right now … but he’s not going to share any of them publically.

Fair enough. Although if that’s the case I’m pretty disappointed that they have to be so secretive about it. I doubt they’re doing anything that anyone else could directly compete with and needs to be kept secret until complete.

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