[GDC Europe - trying to recover from intensive immersion into the next gen gaming paradigms .. London is indeed a great lady! ]
Low-res snapshots of the London event
Keita Takahashi: developing The Katamari Damacy sequel
Designing Games for 3G networks
Coverage of the conference at Gamasutra.com:
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20050902/gillen_01.shtml
GDC Europe Proceedings at:
http://www.gdceurope.com/conference/proceedings.html
First day: I joined the mobile tutorial only to get a bit more confused about the future of development of mobile games.
Manufacturers sell mobile phone devices and games boxes: O.k. There are not there to brings us cross platform and cross authoring. Are they not?
The Mobile gaming development environment is very confused when it comes to a business model. It seems to shift every month!
We content creators are not taken half as seriously by the industry as marketing and sales people are. And they all are in real need of fresh new content.
There is a gap. A huge gap there. A future for content developers to step in. But at which technological price?
A very promising future for serious games world-wide. Serious games are games that dare go beyond entertainment - into the realms of all industries: security, health, education, training, and much much more. More information on serious games can be found at: http://www.seriousgames.org/
Meanwhile the functionalities are great(er), as for the dreams so-called new technology might bring us..
Talking about dreams: Read more about Keita Takahashi and his dilemma while designing the Katamari Damacy Sequel. This man alone is a gaming creator. Keita came to the conference bear foot talking and mocking softly in Japanese. There was a silent wait between him and his translator, laughter and serious fun.
Some of his statements stroke me at the hart: 'You cannot design a game when you are not having fun'. More later about his presentation at The 'Grannies Award'!
A wisdom from Confucius inspired him to seak his own joys:
'Knowledge is not equal to Devotion. Devotion is not equal to joy'.
That is, to know what something is isn’t the same as actually liking it,
and to like it isn’t actually to enjoy it.
A good start to review the whole gaming paradigm. His Katamari Damacy Sequel is eventually coming to Europe and this is the only game I will buy even when blind or broke. Read more about Katamari Damacy: http://www.namco.com/games/katamari_damacy/
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GDC Europe Mobile presents a unique opportunity for European mobile game developers by focusing exclusively on mobile game creation. From groundbreaking technical discussions in areas such as 3G games and developing in a fractured platform environment, the seminar delivers detailed programming, design, and production sessions, featuring speakers from leading development studios, publishers, handset manufacturers, and carriers.
GDC Europe Mobile will also present research and market analysis showing the scope of next-generation mobile game development. Through this one-day intensive seminar, you will gain critical insight in creating games for Europe’s robust mobile interactive entertainment sector.
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