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AGC speakers announced
World of Warcraft’s Rob Pardo, Michael Dell, and Hugo Winning Author Vernor Vinge Headline Austin Game Conference on September 6-7-8, 2006, says the press release. I’ll be there doing a couple of things — I believe I said yes to being on the “rant” panel, and I am also supposed to do a talk inspired by a lot of the discussions here, regarding dinosaurs in the industry and how shifting business models may result in everything changing.
The conference is smack on top of my birthday, so I hope that some of the attendees start planning a surprise party now, since my family won’t be with me…!
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Stats & plugins
I still need to do the monthly report post, but in the meantime, Kristen and I wasted some effort and whipped up a page that gives blog stats and info.
Read on for the gory details.
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Improving Game Marketing
Morgan points us to a study done on improving game marketing (PDF) and the resultant Grimwell Online thread.
The highlights alone, as extracted by Morgan, are worth quoting in their entirety, so I shall shamelessly do so:
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IGDA Casual Games whitepaper released
The IGDA Casual Games SIG has just released its annual
whitepaper (PDF). The IGDA whitepapers are always a good read.