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July 26th, 2007 (Visited 3060 times) Tags:

I will be a panelist at When Worlds Collide, an event put on by IGDA San Diego and attached to the Sandbox Symposium which is part of SIGGRAPH. (I think I have all those connections right). The topic is pretty interesting:

Steve Crane, EVP Product Development (Midway)
Raph Koster, President (Areae)
John Baez, President (The Behemoth)
…and another panelist to be announced.
With innovations in technology and business, video games (like mobile phones) are becoming smaller and more distributed; at the same time, video games are also becoming bigger and more integrated. Mammoth productions from heavyweight studios supported by hordes of A-list developers and “garage” games developed on shoestring budgets by independent and comparatively unknown developers are now pit against each other in competition for leading positions in the same league.
While worldwide sales of video games are expected to reach $13 billion by 2012, the once-homogenous market for video games has expanded to comprise serious, casual, and mobile games in addition to traditional forms of interactive entertainment. In this panel, leaders and pioneers will meet to share their thoughts on the challenges of diverging markets for video games. As game developers and business executives from both sides of the “big versus small” divide, each panelist brings a unique perspective to the discussion.

Anyway, it’s on the 4th, and there’s pretty limited space, so if you’re in town and interested, head on over to the website.

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Adele said on July 26th, 2007 at 9:14 am:

Everything is in Cali… Come on Raph just come do something in St. Louis. St. Louis is really cool! We have lots of stuff like a big metal arch, and well, did I mention the arch?

Darniaq said on July 26th, 2007 at 11:29 am:

At least you can call yourself a city. My Springfield lost out to Vermont. VERMONT! (for that Simpsons thing).

California’s the place. They like their conventions.

Have fun Raph! Wish I could make it. looking forward to the debrief.

Jeff said on July 26th, 2007 at 11:55 am:

Don’t feel so bad Adele. At least you have an Arch. Here in Savannah, GA we have a school that teaches game design (which I’m glad to say I’m a part of) and everything is going on in Cali. Cross country road trip for this meeting would so be worth it, in my opinion, but unfortunately I have to work the summer to be able to afford the school that teaches the game design.

An chance of an internet broadcast of this?

Morgan Ramsay said on July 26th, 2007 at 12:01 pm:

Our website might be down for a short while today. We were trying to resolve some DNS issues that came up. Apparently, I can’t connect to the website from Comic-Con. Once the website is up and running, if anyone can’t connect, please let me know.

David Irelan said on July 27th, 2007 at 5:54 pm:

Don’t feel bad, Adele. You could be living in Kansas City.

Morgan Ramsay said on July 31st, 2007 at 2:03 pm:

Registration is now open to everyone who wants to attend.

Warren Spector also agreed to participate in the panel discussion.