Year: 2007

Here I am in Austin now, right across the street from the Convention Center where the mob scene that is SXSW plays out. I am totally exhausted. I went over to registration, and they were out of the badge holders so they could give me the right badge. They said they could give me one of the other sorts, but I wouldn’t have access to any parties tonight. I doubt I will be conscious for more than another two hours, so I just told them I’d come by in the morning for the real badge…

Besides, I feel guilty about not having posted the slides for the Game Meets Web talk yet. So I should stay in and do that!

In the meantime, my thoughts on GDC are as follows:

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Game Studies Download
Jane McGonigal, Ian Bogost, Mia Consalvo

Criteria: relevance to devs. Novelty, weird questions. Surprising insights.
Common theme: examine how games work and how they work on the players, relationship between design and how players react.

This is not a prescription of eternal truth, just inspiration. Research evolves.

Last year’s top ten list was very popular, 10k downloads. Feedback that there was a desire for a broader palette of sorts of studies. OK, here we go:
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This panel seems to have resonated. Write-ups:

• 1up
• Guardian
• BBC
• Lordfly Didgeridoo’s
• GamersLikeMe
• Cuppytalk
• Sirlin.net
• Existential Worlds

Also a must-read: Joi Ito’s take on the conference as a whole, which I completely agree with.

I have still not made it to a single session. I hope to wake up in time for tomorrow’s Game Studies download.

Oh, and my talks today went well. I’ll post slides when I am more conscious. 😉

Alice liveblogged the panel I was on. Here it is.