GDC 2011

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My studio will be there with Crytek @ Crytek's booth as well as in the Independent Games Festival with Crytek. I'll be at either of the booths off and on all 3 days, getting drunk at random places or running around like a fucking idiot. If anyone would like to meet up let me know... PMing me might be the easiest or just swing by. I have a bunch of the guys on the team with me and we'll be showing off Nexuiz and the CryEngine 3 toolset... we love to discuss our techniques and things like that if anyone is interested always feel free to come chat.

Totally wanna take you up on that.

As of now I'm still planning on going up but only for Thursday as my daughter has had a high fever since Sunday and my wife and I are taking turns watching her all week...so i might not even make it up all this year but we'll see.

If I do make it up, I will be moderating a GDC panel on European payment processing for F2P/Online games as part of the Live Gamer / Moneybookers event. On the surface that is totally a zzz topic but I have learned that Europe is an even more complex market than most US publishers realize (gee, really?), many of whom apparently are struggling to monetize their online etc games. Anyway, not exactly HL2:EP3 unveil press conference caliber stuff...but whatever...

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Otherwise, toddler + 104 (F) fever =

hey hp i heard you came by tonight when i was gone- lets link up tomorrow and chat id love to pick your brain.

The #gdc11 tag in twitter is a big storm... every second a tweet is posted. Hard to read all of them...

Man, it was awesome. Got to finally know vivi and others.

Kedhrin, sure thing man, I'll be by the booth now and then. (Nexuiz looks rad!)

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Hope this comes in a UDK update. Talk about blade runner!

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I think the real question is will it blend?

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but will it make the games more fun? Looks cool tho!

Thats the game designers job. This is the tech guys and art guys doing theirs.

I could see myself loving a game in an environment like that.

Mmmmm Blade Runner~~~and mechs

I peed a little.

love love and more love please make this into a full game !

If he's like the hulk, why didn't he just hulk out and rip the chain off that he was welding in the beginning? What's up with that???? Plotholes!!!!!

Or was that like his brother or something, would be pretty embarrassing for me if that was the case

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Thats the game designers job. This is the tech guys and art guys doing theirs.

sticking a mirror on the floor won't make it more fun, just more confusing. Every art/tech decision should come back to game play (fun)

Thats why games never look as good as tech demo's, thank god!

gatta say, crytek and dice made the show imo (from someone who did not attend). Cryteks engine showcase was awesome with that huge open field video. Dice's Lighting and Immersion was impressive as well.

Idle Thumbs updated for the first time since last September, as the guys got together again for GDC.

http://www.idlethumbs.net/

Woo!

A designer at insomniac (forgot his name) gave a talk about combat that was really really awesome, better than the entire 'level design in a day' imo.

And those tech demos are AMAZING!

Yep, it was forrest dowling. Haven't had the guts to speak to him tho