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.
I attended the Awards Show, and I have to say that it’s the most awesome thing I ever attended in my whole friggin’ life!
Poesysteme was nominated, next to great games like Crayon Physics Deluxe (Seumas McNally Grand Prize winner, go Petri!) and Synaesthete (Student Showcase winner). Having met Petri and the Digipen guys, as well as Nils (the author of Rückblende) and the P.B. Winterbottom crew, I can assure you that they are all great guys and that you should play their games and give them many bags full of money, sweet money. The room was packed with the coolest people of all, and I know Sid Meier, Gabe Newell and Ralph Baer now know my game exists. ROCK ON!
I was planning to do a daily writeup of the GDC but I guess I’ll have to accept the fact that a regular day at the Expo is too taxing. Usually when I get back to my hotel I just want to crash and burn. Cool-headed impressions from the confort of my home it will be, then!
Also, the expo? Sheer. Madness.
Okay, sorry I haven’t been able to pay more attention to this blog, it’s just that I’m putting in a bit of overtime on M.A.Z.E. to compensate the week I’ll be spending at GDC, which is also taking me time to get ready for.
I’m sure GDC will provide me with good stories to tell, and I’m also sure I’ll be unable to update this until I come back.
If you are attending GDC, I’d be glad to meet you! I should be stuck at the IGF Booth during the expo (Wed. to Fri.) to demo Poesysteme, and I think I won’t miss the IGDA party either (Tuesday, I think).
So, until then, then!
As a sort of before-after experiment, I wanted to see if there were going to be significant differences in terms of coverage before and after the GDC for Poesysteme. My hypothesis is YES, but we’ll see.
In the mailbox today, excellent news! (for me)
Cher Balthazar,
J’ai le plaisir de vous confirmer que vous avez été retenu par le jury du concours SACD - GDC pour partir à la GDC qui a lieu du 18 au 22 février, à San Francisco, Californie, USA.
Tout d’abord, bravo pour votre jeu “Poesysteme” qui a fortement impressionné le jury SACD qui s’est tenu lundi 5 novembre à Paris.
Want to know what it means exactly? More after the jump.