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Locked inside GameCity

iain — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:19:39 +0000

Currently most of my waking hours are spent in the final stages of the GameCity festival preparations for this year and planning a number of follow-on events and projects.
Regular tech and game blogging is picking up pace over at CultureTech.

In other news, this November 21st I’m taking part in a London GeekNight, talking working environments - a lot of the material that was cut from Inside Game Design (and still, I think, a book in the waiting…)

@ Develop

iain — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:01:25 +0000

Back from Develop, which was brilliant. Hugely refreshing to go to a conference that was free of the usual patchiness.

More about it later - but my overriding memory of it is over on CultureTech for your perusal.

caldav on gCal!!!

iain — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:28:56 +0000

Finally! This is truly brilliant news. We run the whole GameCity backend (excepting the knowledge base) from Google apps, and this is going to make things a lot easier.
They should really make this native in iCal though.

Anyway - I’m off to Develop now… See you there?

Coulton @ GameCity

iain — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:23:25 +0000

Jonathan Coulton, nerd-bard of Brooklyn is coming over to GameCity this year. Brilliant.

Things are moving astonishingly quickly this year, and whilst this particular event has been some time in the making - the issues surrounding it are rapidly clearing. We’ve been frantically tweeting and facebooking this the last hour or so since JoCo announced the gig on his blog - but the good news is that this isn’t even the whole story.

This year the run of games events in the last few weeks has pretty much prevented us from announcing any of our treasures, but we will be able to soon. Then you’ll be sorry.

IGD(ers) gig pdf

iain — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:23:49 +0000

Just a quick note… I was digging through archives of folders here and came across the presentations from the Inside Game Design(ers) gigs last year. There were three in all - but here for your viewing pleasure is the one from the ICA gig which featured Alex and Siobhan from Media Molecule as special guests. It’s nearly 12mb, but kind of worth it for the detail in the images.

ICA_Inside_Game_Designers_PDF

Not bought the book yet?

You really should…. It’s practically Christmas already.

NMTP @ Develop

iain — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:50:35 +0000

This wednesday sees the return of Never Mind the Polygons to the Develop conference in Brighton - where I’m going to be all week.

If you’re around on Wednesday evening, do come along and see me, Margaret, Jonathan, Mark Rein and Nate Wells arguing about everything.

almost…

iain — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:06:57 +0000

…up and running with the new wordpress, which is as brilliant as I’d hoped it would be. Still playing with plug-ins and widgets but more or less there…

half-migrated…

iain — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:52:01 +0000

It’s that time again, when for no apparent reason, I migrate from one cms to wordpress (again). We’re just getting organised…

The book & project pages will be resumed very soon…

CultureTech @ NS.com / Play Britannia / GC3

iain — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:37:30 +0000

The CultureTech blog at New Statesman is now up-and-running…Play Britannia continues with some wonderful new interviews….GameCity 3 is starting to eat up everything in its path…

GDC Radio Interview

iain — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:37:52 +0000

The GDCRadio interview has just been posted at Gamasutra, in which the lucid Tom Kim comes up against the rambling Iain Simons over 108 (?!) minutes of relentless tal