I made a video of this years Game Developers Rant on my camera, and have finally uploaded it now – it’s certainly got some more visual elements you won’t get from a writeup! Continue reading GDC08 Video – Game developers rant
Category Archives: Events
Posts about events, I’ve attended/will attend/am attending.
GDC08 Notes – Building a Better Battle: HALO 3 AI Objectives
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 viewer, which is oddly smaller then the original file. I’d recommend glancing through it if you read these, since I don’t usually copy all the stuff off the slides if I can help it. Continue reading GDC08 Notes – Building a Better Battle: HALO 3 AI Objectives
GDC08 Notes – Streaming Open World Pathfinding
These 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. Continue reading GDC08 Notes – Streaming Open World Pathfinding
GDC08 Notes – Torpex’s Schizoid
The 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. Continue reading GDC08 Notes – Torpex’s Schizoid
GDC08 Notes – Staging Workshop: Visual storytelling Masterclass
Here 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 week. Continue reading GDC08 Notes – Staging Workshop: Visual storytelling Masterclass
GDC08 – Friday
Friday – finally perhaps? The last day had a lot going on, and was really interesting. Continue reading GDC08 – Friday
GDC08 – Thursday
Thursday was a bit more hectic then I had planned – I also started late from a late Wednesday night. Continue reading GDC08 – Thursday
GDC08 – Wednesday
Wednesday was pretty good at the GDC (pictures after clicking more 🙂 ) Continue reading GDC08 – Wednesday
GDC08 – Tuesday
Tuesday was pretty great – I had the opportunity to go to a game development studio (something I am glad I did do!) and saw some stuff later in the day (Click more for report with pictures) Continue reading GDC08 – Tuesday
GDC08 – Monday
I went to the Staging Workshop: Visual storytelling Masterclass on Monday and met most of the scholarship people in the evening. (read on for more) Continue reading GDC08 – Monday