So, here is my conclusion on DiGRA 2009! I thoroughly enjoyed most of the conference. Lets get over the parts I didn’t enjoy; presenting since I just didn’t feel I did a good job (rushed, little practice), so next time, more practice and less rushing. Vocabulary both needs to be clearer and, simply, have more [...]
Also tagged academia, DiGRAAI Roundtable! I’ve took all evening putting up my GDC 2009 notes, woo! Pictures, slide links as appropriate/available, and slight checks on the notes actual content – although there are obviously major gaps and my notes are still improving, not quite got to “nicely abridged” yet in my style. If there are any omissions or [...]
Also tagged Game Developers Conference, Game Developers Conference 2009Okay, GDC is over, final notes from me about everything (including what I previously posted), what went right, wrong and what I would need to prepare for better
Also tagged Game Developers Conference, GDC2008Me looking more moody then I felt, honest (Dave Mark’s picture) The final AI roundtable on Friday was AI for Beginners – we were in one room again, but it wasn’t as crowded. Some varied questions asked (not all of them for beginners, but a lot was explained for those that were). Dave Mark put [...]
Also tagged Game Developers Conference, GDC2008The left of me So day 2 of the AI roundtables was a lot easier, although for some reason I didn’t use my laptop to take notes, sigh. This day, we did split into two rooms – I covered the “Action / FPS genre” side, while Dave Mark covered the “RTS / RPG” side. It’s [...]
Also tagged Game Developers Conference, GDC2008Right side of the room This Wednesday roundtable was meant to be in two rooms, sadly, we got only one. However, a lot of discussion was had, and I got 3 pages of notes from it. These notes are somewhat hard to follow, but are pretty much in linear order of what came up. For [...]
Also tagged Game Developers Conference, GDC2008Eager crowd… So I made lots of notes on the Building a Better Battle: HALO 3 AI Objectives talk by Damian Isla, and I finally wrote them up! You can find his slides on this page (direct link), and if you don’t have Office 2007, I made a quick printout to PDF from the 2007 [...]
Also tagged Game Developers Conference, GDC2008, HaloThese are my notes from Streaming Open World Pathfinding, Quinn Dunki. Very interesting, and some unique ways to cut down the processing time to make it fast and cheap. Find the slides on her site.
Also tagged Game Developers Conference, GDC2008, open world, pathfindingThe talk by Bill Dugan entitled Torpex’s Schizoid was part of the Indie Games Summit, and was done on Tueday afternoon. I took down quite a few quick notes from it, since it detailed how to make a game using XNA/C#, through the process and on a shoestring budget.
Also tagged Game Developers Conference, GDC2008Here are my notes from the day-long workshop, Staging Workshop: Visual storytelling Masterclass. It centered around using film and actors to portray (interactive) cutscenes and being able to “prototype” changes made to the actions of the characters to portray events very differently. Interesting stuff and one of the main non-programming things I attended during the [...]
Also tagged Game Developers Conference, GDC2008