GDC, last day: Will Wright and Bad Writers
Last post from GDC – I have just packed, have a few hours to shop and so forth and then it’s back to jolly old Blighty guvnor, stone the crows if it ain’t.
Last night I went out(shock) and Steve and I visited the aquarium (which was pretty good) and generally bimbled around -thus the bloggage [...]
GDC day four: Sid Meier and Capitalism
A fair bit to write about.
First off, my Blizzard quest (to find Esther a plush Griffon) has failed hopelessly. Finding the Blizzard stand at the careers expo I was confronted with this:
No big yellow question mark there I am afraid. I also really do not know what was going on there ? People standing in [...]
GDC, day three
The best thing about watching Peter present though is his sheer enthusiasm, joy and skill.
GDC, day two
Gosh, my hotel wireless is slow.
The Paradox people are great and have treated my essentially pointless ass with incredibly courtesy. They have rented a flat near GDC where they are plying people with free drinks and nibbles(the Paradox special cocktail is rather tasty, the barman skilled and charming) and demoing some games – a team [...]
GDC day one: games education summit
GDC has now actually started, with the first two days dedicated to ‘summits’ and ‘tutorials’. I had a great deal of difficulty deciding what to attend to day as there was a lot of cool stuff on – the serious games summit, a tutorial on game writing and the games education summit (that is, teaching [...]