AGDC Keynote over @ Sulka’s Game

Go read them.

My last session was this very lively panel with John Blakely (SOE Austin), Mark Jacobs (EA Mythic), Erik Bethke (GoPets), and moderated by Matt Firor. It was a blast.

• Kotaku
• Virtual Worlds News (liveblog, but missing the first bit)
• Gamasutra

Note, Gamasutra misattributes one quote, and VWN claims that it was John Smedley, not John Blakely. 🙂

CMP is moving fast this year, and is already posting audio of the first day of sessions (for a fee, of course). The audio for my lecture is posted here.

Currently in Nicole Lazzaro’s excellent talk, but it’s too visual to liveblog… 🙂 Basically, she’s arguing for broadening our definition of games a lot, based on her emotion research.

Gamasutra has a good summary of this keynote.

It was downright shameful how few people were at this keynote compared to Mike Morhaime’s keynote about WoW yesterday (which was largely a rehash of things we have already heard, honestly). This was stuff that the crowd here needed to hear. I have heard far too many folks a bit baffled by the “webby” stuff and wondering what it is doing here. Well, this keynote was the answer.

Makes me wonder how they will react to the Nexon keynote tomorrow.

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