Virtual Worlds News has a liveblog.
It’s all very businessy, and therefore likely dull. But hey, if you’re doing a startup in games, maybe you’re interested. 🙂
Edit: Gamasutra has an even more complete transcript.
Edit 2: and here’s another take.
Another liveblog…
Damion Schubert, Bioware Austin (and his blog)
My title is at least as vague as Raph’s. I thought I would tell you up front what I am talking about so if it is not what you think you can leave now.
Three mental models for MMO design, and I thought I would make those public and you can tell me if they are useful, because I have not actually researched them. I will also throw out stray thoughts on MMO design as they come up, they will seem random, because I am a random guy. And I will also discuss the history of cupholders.
Liveblog — forgive the typos.
Greg Boyd, general corporate attorney, at Paul Weiss.
I have given fifteen of these talks in the last three years. I promise this one is different. The goals of this talk:
Here are the slides for my presentation today. For once, you should be able to get the gist of what I said without needing to read or hear the actual lecture alongside the slides. I suppose that makes this a “bad use of Powerpoint” — but I swear I didn’t just read the slides. 🙂
First up, there’s this fancy MHT file that Powerpoint exported. It seems to only work in IE, though. 🙁
If that doesn’t work for you, there’s also a PDF (3.8MB). But I notice a lot of the graphics are wonky looking, including all the backgrounds.
Lastly, here’s a page with every slide as images.
Astute readers will notice that I stole a comment from the estimable Dr. Bartle. 😉
Always fun to see the different readings different people get from the same material!
I will try to get the slides posted today. The talk was actually quite heavy on the game grammar stuff — material which regular blog readers will likely find familiar, honestly. I was worried there was too much of it, but when I asked the crowd, they said they wanted more of it… so maybe the balance was OK.
