Hi All, I'm at the Casuality conference at the moment (on their free Wifi). I flew over from Exeter in about 1.5 hours so that was good.
Today I've sat through some interesting presentations on the important of character and story in games, funware (e.g. facebook is actually a game), how to reach the other 80% of gamers, and how Dream Chronicles was developed. I also got a free vegetarian lunch at the Big Fish Games presentation about how they run their business.
The presentations were pretty good and I've met some interesting people like the designer of the Virtual Villagers games and the designers of The Scruffs amongst others. People seem know know about Fairway Solitaire and are complimentary which is nice. It's also been good to meet lots of the BFG people who I've only communicated with by email.
Later I'm going to a party at a Tapas bar and staying at a friend who lives here.
Anyway, if you are serious about casual game development it's probably worth thinking about going sometime.
See you later...
[edit]OK, I went to post this earlier but the wifi failed or something! So anyway, been to the BFG party and met the designer/programmer of Master of Defense along with some other nice people and then managed to get a tram back to my friend's house (wasn't easy as I'm a tram noob)
Today I've sat through some interesting presentations on the important of character and story in games, funware (e.g. facebook is actually a game), how to reach the other 80% of gamers, and how Dream Chronicles was developed. I also got a free vegetarian lunch at the Big Fish Games presentation about how they run their business.
The presentations were pretty good and I've met some interesting people like the designer of the Virtual Villagers games and the designers of The Scruffs amongst others. People seem know know about Fairway Solitaire and are complimentary which is nice. It's also been good to meet lots of the BFG people who I've only communicated with by email.
Later I'm going to a party at a Tapas bar and staying at a friend who lives here.
Anyway, if you are serious about casual game development it's probably worth thinking about going sometime.
See you later...
[edit]OK, I went to post this earlier but the wifi failed or something! So anyway, been to the BFG party and met the designer/programmer of Master of Defense along with some other nice people and then managed to get a tram back to my friend's house (wasn't easy as I'm a tram noob)