Archive for category: Life
10 March, 2010 (10:18) | Games, Life | By: Olivier
Extremely well dressed Nick Fortugno (of Diner Dash fame) gave a talk entitled “How to Innovate in the Land of Clones”, based on the starting point that there’s a crisis of cloning in the social games industry.
Why do we innovate ?
- Because First comers own their space. At least recognized first comers.
- Markets evolve as [...]
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9 March, 2010 (08:33) | Hedonism, Life | By: Olivier
Started the day by going surfing with Jason and Mike, ended it sharing Intrige (one of my favorite board games).
This has got to be the best GDC kickoff ever! ^-^
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28 February, 2010 (08:08) | Games, Life | By: Olivier
The Art History of Games symposium’s days 2 and 3 were extremely interesting. Full of insightful and interesting commentary on games. It was really impossible to transcribe the talks with fidelity. So I didn’t try, just soaked it up and took the time to digest it all. Now that the dust has settled a bit [...]
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4 February, 2010 (21:06) | Games, Life | By: Olivier
I am at the Art History of Games (#AHoG on Twitter) symposium in Atlanta.
It all starts with Jason Rohrer handing me his “New Gamist Manifesto” February 3, 2010. It goes like this:
1- Games do not have spoilers.
2- Games cannot be finished.
3- Games do not have characters, except for the characters who play them.
4- Games do [...]
Tags: AHoG | 4 comments
31 January, 2010 (19:28) | Games, Life | By: Olivier
This past weekend, we once again did the Global Game Jam and I ran the Paris event with the help of my friends from the ISART video game school. In just a year, the GGJ has grown massively with 4349 jammers in 39 countries and 138 sites producing 927 games! We pulled our own weight [...]
Tags: GGJ, GGJ10, GGJparis, globalgamejam | 2 comments
12 December, 2009 (09:17) | Life | By: Olivier
Last month I spent an extended weekend on the tiny island of Naoshima, in the Seto inland sea. Naoshima became a well known cultural spot in Japan after the Benesse corporation (owner of the Berlitz language schools) had Tadao Ando design and build two museums for contemporary art. I usually dislike museums because they feel [...]
Tags: Japan, Naoshima, voyage | No comments
12 November, 2009 (01:28) | Games, Life | By: Olivier
Tags: Horseshoe, ph | 2 comments
27 October, 2009 (11:15) | Games, Life | By: Olivier
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25 September, 2009 (04:31) | French, Games, Life | By: Olivier
Le 27 juillet dernier j’ai reçu une invitation très formelle du Club Galilée pour le 21 septembre qui disait :
“Créé en 2006, le Club Galilée est un « Think Tank » européen regroupant plus de 300 professionnels de toutes générations et de tous médias, publics et privés, ainsi que des télécoms, qui propose une nouvelle approche indépendante [...]
Tags: Mekensleep | 18 comments
16 July, 2009 (07:57) | Games, Life | By: Olivier
Soul Bubbles has been released in Japan under the name “Awatama”.
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