Yesterday I jokingly said that the most interesting Indie talk came from the Serious Game summit. Today, that was actually revealed to be true.
I received this mail today, if you’re an IGDA member you should have too:
Dear Members,
Recently an email went out that appeared to have originated from IGDA. The return address of this email appeared as: “Concerned_Members_of_the_IGDA@IGDA.org.”
That email address was spoofed and the communication was not an official IGDA communication. We are currently reviewing the methods by which it was sent to see if this was sent out by people ignorant of proper use of the IGDA website or if there was malicious actions involved. We are also reviewing the method by which your email addresses were obtained and if that was done ethically or not. It is my hope that this was done by someone simply overzealous about their cause and not for destructive reasons.Please be aware IGDA was not responsible for this email and does not have anything to do with the content or the links provided. You should read and use such links at your own risk.
We will investigate this issue and provide you with information on our findings as they are confirmed.
Thank you,
Joshua Caulfield
Executive Director
IGDA
This is a follow-up to an email from an address coming from @IGDA.org pointing to a simple online survey asking if the member agreed on asking for an extraordinary meeting to force Tim Langdell out which, strangely enough, asked for your membership number along with your name and a simple yes/no radio button.
Is this really an act of vigilantism to remove Langdell from the association or were we just victims of a phishing hack? Time will tell…
The full text of the original e-mail is reproduced below.
I’ll be in or around Ubisoft’s stand, for the show’s duration, presenting Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party, the game I’ve been working on the last 6 months.
See you when I’m back!
Sorry about the short absence, work got the best of me.
What I intended to talk about earlier this week was about the latest crop of projects to come out of ENJMIN. Every year around the end of June, first year students demo their interactive pieces to the public.
This year, a grand total of seventeen works were presented. Not all of them are downloadable yet, I’ll update the list as they hit the web. Read further for the full list. (more…)
The reason I’ve been away from the blog lately is because I was attending the Paris GDC event, held at the “Coeur Défense” conference center. Let me tell you about it a little!
The series of conferences is drawing to an end. A quick recap on what happened yesterday and today.
Okay, it’s getting real hard to pay attention to these conferences and try to hold a deadline. So, short reviews.
This week, a little bit of our precious crunch time is being devoted to attending a series of conferences held at our school. These conferences, dubbed “Les Ateliers du Jeu Vidéo” – The Videogame Workshop were organized by all-around cool guy Jean-Michel Blottière. I’ll attempt to report on some of them.
Today, the conference was held by Jenova Chen and Kellee Santiago via video conference. They talked about how to elicit emotion in games centered around the development of their current experimental game, “flower”.
I’ve just heard that Gary Gygax, co-creator of the Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying game, has passed away.
That man was virtually responsible for the gaming (video and other) industry’s place in the world as of now.
I feel… strange.
A week has gone since I flew back from San Francisco to France. I had to jump in the flow of life right away, which didn’t really give me time to catch up on everything that had happened in that week. Maybe what remains now is what was more important? Anyways, Sunday is always a good day to look back.