GDC 09 is now behind me. i write this entry from the San Francsicso airport in relative comfort. The week was packed with stats, ideas, names and a growing list of todo’s flying at me from all directions, and i hope i have the chance to process it all when i return to Toronto. The [...] Keep Reading

The penultimate day at GDC 09 finds me weary, delirious, and sporting a pronounced limp. My right eye is wandering lazily off-center and, like a broken compass, seems to always point Southeast regardless of which way i’m facing. i’m starting to confuse people’s names with colours, and i’m blurring session titles with childhood memories, like [...] Keep Reading

Game Developers Conference 2008 is over and it’s time to return to the snowy North. Here are my picks for the best and worst of everything i experienced there. Best Business Card Gone are the days of E3 – the Electronic Entertainment Expo – when we could rely on people for such unsavoury and useless [...] Keep Reading

i split my time between MMO talks and entrepreneurship sessions at this year’s Game Developers Conference. The conference had a fair number of sessions featuring CEOs who discussed how they went from owning small startups to riding around in limousine hot tubs. i also attended a series of roundtable discussions called “Start-up Survival Stories”. These [...] Keep Reading

Game Developers Conference 2008 is over and it’s time to return to the snowy North. Here are my picks for the best and worst of everything i experienced there. Best Panel or Lecture There were so many amazing sessions that it’s hard to pin one down. Last year, it was Damion Schubert’s “Writing Great Game [...] Keep Reading