August 2008 Entries
And tomorrow, I'll be heading home. Definitely been a new experience for me, but I'm not sure if I'll just go ahead and do it again. If I do, I will definitely take a different approach to it.
Anyway, I have seen a good number of cool things at the GC and the GCDC. The sessions during the developers conference varied a lot in quality. Some were great, others not so. Most of only interesting to developers , so I will skip that for now.
The confention itself was huge. 3.5 halls filled with booths, and an outside area with even an...
Well, today I was at the GCDC, and I must say I learend a lot, and saw a lot. I went through a bunch of sessions, which were mostly very interesting. Especially the keynotes about Gears of War 2 were great. Especially because we got to see a live demo of the game, which looked great! I also got a sneak peak at Lego Universe, which looks very nice as well.
I'm not going to be going into too much details about the developers side of things here, though I may publish some stuff on the convention itself.
Laters!
- SG
So, today was the first day of GCDC '08. In this post I am going to try and put some of the sessions I've gone through today.
First session: Agile Project Management in Game Development.
This session really did not go into anything I did not already know. All about Scrum, and how that works in practice. Some troubles that can occur while implementing it, but I think nothing really new for the way we work.
The second session was about multiplayer development best practices.
In particular about shooters. While mostly focusing on first person shooters and on both the design and...
Well, it's been a while since I last wrote. Things are going well, and I've been busy with work a lot. Tomorrow morning I depart for the Games Convention in Germany! Going to be a blast, I'm sure.
Aside from that, Selinye posted some neat quizzes I thought I'd take as well :)
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