Do you live in San Francisco? Or, have you ever been there, for a conference, perhaps, or a holiday? (since the games industry’s biggest annual conference takes place in downtown SF, literally adjacent to and physically underneath the memorial) Have you been to the Martin Luther King memorial? No, not […]
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Last week at the LOGIN conference I sat on a panel with three far more smart/successful/famous people than myself entitled “Online Games 2014: Twelve Spoilers for the Future” (I think I was there as “the argumentative one” ;)). The real value of the panel was the four of us arguing^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdiscussing […]
This is going to be, um, … interesting. Darius lost his voice this week (some throat infection cominbed with lots of drinking, nonstop talking/networking, and then aggresive partying each night). Poor guy, he was totally inaudible yesterday. And this morning I could hardly talk too, so I’m on a diet […]
4 hours sleep or less? Check The main 8 hour event I’ve come for today “not listed” on conference programme? Check The big posters-sized signs don’t list any of the summit locations? Check The map claims that the giant room where the first session takes place “doesn’t exist”? Check No […]
Lots of news sites and blogs have reported that the recession has affected GDC this year, with lot of cancelled parties and a big drop in attendees. I wouldn’t be surprised, given all the redundancies (although … wouldn’t that mean more people looking to recruit / be recruited?), but the […]
For a mere $600 (yes, that *is* going to double the cost of the GDC ticket that you already bought), you can go to this competing event on Tuesday next week: “VentureBeat is teaming with industry heavy-weights.” Ah, hubris, how we love you. “You’ll learn how one of the most […]
http://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2009/QBlog210309B.html Your professor tells you that you can’t study them for their own sake. However, if they’re as exciting as you say, and all the young people are reading them, then perhaps you could write an educational one? He therefore instructs you to go away and write a novel to […]
(seriously – otherwise I’ll be phoneless thoughout GDC :( ) I’ve had no interest in cracking my iPhone, so I haven’t. Until I discovered the other day that my incompetent network (O2) won’t allow me to make calls in the USA on the agreement I have with them, so I […]
I just received an “invite” to a pay-for event in London about “smartphone development”: an evening in a bar with a couple of speakers and some networking. So … you can go and listen to an iPhone developer, an ex EA person, and an ex Motorola person, and pay for […]
My GDC 2009 talk is up on the site – How to sell social-networking pitches/concepts to your Boss … and to your Publisher. Now that the submission / selection process for GDC 09 is coming to an end, here’s a few thoughts on the new process (CMP / Think Services […]
Dan’s put up the slides from his talk at the Let’s Change the Game Conference – but more importantly he’s done a long writeup with the slides embedded in the text, so you can get the flavour of the talk he gave even though you missed it. He set out […]
Alice Taylor, Channel 4 From the ARGs in Charity and Education conference last week. Alice was forthcoming on real data – and, more importantly, C4’s outlook/perspective – on a bunch of issues. Very useful stuff. As ever, errors and ommissions my own, and my commentary [in square brackets].
Juliette Culver Main post on the conference is here. As ever, errors and omissions my own, and any personal commentary is in [square brackets] EDIT: updated with some corrections, courtesy of Juliette
This week, I was at the tiny one-day conference on Alternate Reality Games, and their use in charity and/or education, at Channel 4’s offices in London. All proceeds from the conference went to Cancer Research UK (I think it was mainly organized by the team that this year won the […]
(a FAIL using web-based meeting tools) 1) Make it look fun and interesting and seemingly inclusive: “MiniBar is a social evening in East London which offers people a chance to snaffle some free beer while discussing p2p, Creative Commons, web applications, social networking and general Web 2.0 (3.0) mayhem & […]
Thoughts on making an awesome conference, #1: Interactive Presentations (Part 1: The Problem. ATTN: Darius – you know what I’m doing here :)) The problem with interactive presentation is simply that, in its most obvious fashion, it completely doesn’t work. I’ve seen presenters stand up, with the best will in […]
I’m there now, drop me a line (see About page for email) if you’re around. I’ve just given a quick presentation introducing the ENISA’s (European Network and Information Security Agency) whitepaper on “Security and Privacy in MMO’s and VW’s”. It’s free, and it’s fairly simple (aimed at everyone from consumers […]
I’ve written up my notes for the first three sessions of the VGS last Friday, and they’re in the queue over at FreeToPlay.biz waiting to be approved by Adrian; hopefully they should go live soon. It was a good conference, some good stuff said, lots of basic sharing of info […]
My last post (where a conference organizer had explained that they wanted me to speak not because of my speaking ability but because of the name of the company I worked for) has drawn some really interesting feedback both from conference organizers and from conference speakers. Some of it’s been […]
Moderator: Jason Roberts, 38 Studios Steve Danuser, 38 Studios Darius Kazemi, Orbus Gameworks Troy Hewitt , Flying Lab Osma Ahvenlampi, Sulake Summary This was a surprisingly good session – not only was it 9am in the morning, the night after the official conference party, but it was also a panel […]