Well, it was nice to have a tiramisu with you at the Game Developer’s Conference in Melbourne. I hope you returned home safely. Keep in touch.

Regards, Genevieve

Id love to get hold of a recording of your presentation. I gave a keynote speech at the Freeplay a few years ago and found it to be probably the most open(and artistically)minded games-based conference I’ve been to. I teach games design/culture at a Uni in the UK and its very difficult to get hold of rpesentations by developers that arent just sales pitches. For some reason, the independent angle is something they rarely consider as I guess they are usually lost in a haze of next gen hi rez gfx and halo 23. They are often derisive when I show them Flow or N, but subsequently shocked when those games edge their way into the mainstream. Its easy for them to look at current studio models and assume they can only be single role participants (mr texture/mr animation etc). This is sad, when the Uni environment is the ideal space for them to explore all roles of game creation and attempt experimental ideas without substantial risk (instead of deigning yet more bigger gun FPSs)

I’ll make a posting about it when they put the video up.