Treat me like a jetlagged lover
My GDC swag this year consists of: 2 USB memory sticks, 1 bruised spine, 6000 air miles, dozens of business cards, a 3-figure mobile phone bill and hundreds of un-answered emails. So, apologies if you’re waiting for me to get back to you - I’m catching up, I promise. In the meantime, as literally several of you have requested, here’s the powerpoint (10 meg, sorry) for my ‘Treat Me Like A Lover’ session. I’m not sure how much sense the slides will make on their own, so I’m working on a transcript, which I’ll post up here when it’s done. Hopefully GDCRadio will be up soon, so you can download it there, in the highly unlikely event you want to spend $8 on hearing me be smutty about Advance Wars. Cheers to everyone who turned out at the painful hour of 9am Friday to hear me rant, and thanks for all the kind comments after.
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I have to say, I just finished a GDC wrap-up with my design team, and I started it off with some highlights from your session. It was killer. It’s a rare GDC where I find a lecture both amusing and enlightening but really, the paradigm you presented was instantly understandable, and a great tool to keep things centred around the player and not always around the MetaCritic score. Thanks again, and I look forward to your next semi-smutty exploration of design theory!
Ed
By Ed Byrne on 27 February 2008 11:31 pm
When I got home from GDC, I couldn’t wait to tell everyone this session. I even told my girlfriend about how you drew parallels between phases and aspects of a relationship. She readily understood the things that you pointed out and she’s not even a gamer. I’d call that a success the accessibility of your presentation.
I too, look forward to your next semi-smutty exploration of design theory. =)
By Andy Pan on 28 February 2008 9:22 pm
When I first read the session description, I thought, this could be really clever or really trite. It wasn’t trite! Good job!
As I said to you in an all-too-brief post-lecture hello, it was a really catchy way of talking about something of genuine importance. Hope you can do it again, or something in the same spirit, at next year’s conf.
Also, I like that your slides weren’t just bullet points of the things you were saying. Watching someone slog through a list of topic headings is so boring, but for some reason it’s the standard approach to these things.
Again, great job, and I’ll be following your blog from now on.
- David
By David Hellman on 28 February 2008 9:36 pm
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