GDC

My primary ambition right now is to make it to the GDC. Clearly it won’t be this year, since, you know… it’s already over. I’m hoping for next year, but I sincerely doubt it. For now, I’ll make do with Nordic Game, but it’s not quite the same.

So I ease the pain by reading all these great reports from the GDC, checking out the dev blogs regularly, finding videos of the presentations on RPS and elsewhere, and generally being a little OCD about it all. But that just makes it worse.

Never-the-less, here are two pretty awesome pieces of GDC I’ve managed to pick up over the last couple of days. First is a very very funny rant by Jane McGonigal titled Reality is Broken. I heartily recommend getting the slides too. If anybody knows where I can find a video of this rant or any of the other rants, I would be much obliged.

The second bit is Gamasutra’s summary of the Game Design Challenge, where I definitely think they picked the right winner. Any game design that can be sold with the phrase “the game that puts the fun back into fungicide” gets a star in my book!

I’m taking recommendations for other goodies I may have missed.