Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think.
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 [...]
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! ^-^
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Project Horseshoe 2009
Essen 2009 summary
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 [...]
Soul Bubbles has been released in Japan under the name “Awatama”.
