Five Short Video Game Industry Keynotes

[zabuni]

Via GameSetWatch (http://www.magicalwasteland.com/2007/12/five_short_video_game_industry.htm)


Let’s think about the future for a second. You probably don’t understand the kids that make up the bulk of our audience, but I do. I call them the network MySpace remix 3.0 social generation. Unlike any other people before them, young people today like to interact with each other. They also like music. YouTube is the perfect example of whatever point it is I’m making. Everything should be online and customizable.

I lol'ed. (http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/12/06/gdc-prime-2007-what-we-are-missing/)

[rjcc]

ahhh, I RTFA. spoof.

[BobJustBob]

Unlike any other people before them, young people today like sex. They also like music.
Unlike any other people before them, young people today like puppies. They also like music.
Unlike any other people before them, young people today like sex+puppies. They also like music.

Young people today like sex with puppies set to music.

[rjcc]

lol@ my stealth edit in time for that to make no sense.

[sventest]

I think I could actually name seven or eight people who have given almost exactly those same speaches.

[Bahimiron]

One of the responses to Raph's page used the phrase 'convergent transmedia entertainment'.

Anyway, I'm typing this blind cos I vomited so hard my eyes came out.

[RightWrong]

ㅑ convergent transmedia entertainment'd just yesterday.

I haven't vomited yet.

[Raph]

Awesome. :) I have given half of these!

Of course, I suspect the reason they keep getting given by everyone is because they bear repeating...

[rjcc]

Young people today like sex with puppies set to music.
KHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.startrekexp.com/store/images/products/1789_large.jpg

[Anaxagoras]

For our last project we used Scrum, and boy, are we glad we did. There is no way anything we did would have been possible without it. What is Scrum, you ask? It’s a set of new terminology for things that already happen when groups of people work together. For example, instead of a “meeting,” you have a “Scrum,” and so on.

I don't get this one. Where I work, "scrum" means something very clear: a short meeting (10 or 15 minutes, tops) with a very targeted agenda. i.e. What's your status & are you blocked on anything? We go around the room real quick, all 12 or 13 people give their status, and we're done. It's actually a pretty good idea... if a bit obvious.

[Bahimiron]

Do you maximize new paradigms using synergistic cross-resource infrastructures?

[AaronSofaer]

Hey now. There are perfectly valid uses for the term synergistic.

Why, I was just talking with a friend the other day about the synergistic capabilities of skills in Guild Wars and the emergent metagame psuedo-gameplay that it causes.

[Andrew Mayer]

I don't get this one. Where I work, "scrum" means something very clear: a short meeting (10 or 15 minutes, tops) with a very targeted agenda. i.e. What's your status & are you blocked on anything? We go around the room real quick, all 12 or 13 people give their status, and we're done. It's actually a pretty good idea... if a bit obvious.

Well, it's part of a larger idea, which is "agile development". But believe me, in the last two years I've seen all kinds of dev crimes committed under the umbrella of Scrum. I've fought hard to keep it from becoming a term describing "whatever I already told you to do" wrapped in a shiny new term.

[Erlend Grefsrud]

I think Koster is actually on to something. First the internet started killing television, then television started adapting by offering the kids the same lowest-common-denominator stuff that they could find on YouTube, only with really high production values. Fuck, everyone from Discovery Channel to E! Entertainment does these DIY-looking fuckers with a boom mic in the frame and prefab filter effects.

Games, not happy with losing out as the new and exciting entertainment medium during the nineties because the field was narrow and nerdy, has reacted to the new entertainment paradigm by ... remaining narrow and nerdy, thus remaining culturally irrelevant compared to the internet and television.

Microsoft called Halo 3 the media event of the year. I say that Chris fucking Croker made a bigger splash than Halo 3. And he was just this year's lonelygirl15. A ripoff.

Metaplace may be shit, but that would be because of the implementation. The idea itself is really quite sound, a very natural merging of game design with what looks like the path ahead for entertainment media. If the games industry wasn't too preoccupied with frickin' lasers and tits, a major developer or publisher would have come up with this idea a long time ago.

[rjcc]

who is chris croker?

[Bahimiron]

who is chris croker?

You are a better man now not knowing than you will be when you find out.

Leave it alone.

[Talisker]

who is chris croker?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc

He apparently is getting a TV show now, or something.

[rjcc]

oh, I've seen that picture, I had no idea what it was for.

[Kadath]

If nothing else I learned from that page that Scott Hartsman is no longer with Sony and is now blogging. So it wasnt a total waste.