Hey there.
I’m currently on the last stages of judging the IGF finalists… I have a lot to tell you about that, just not now… you’ll probably have to wait until I’m done. So…
Everything else is just dandy fine, just very busy. More on that when appropriate too. Damn NDAs.
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.
Seeing as the conditions at the IGF pavilion weren’t optimal for poesysteme-ing, I decided to go towards the “performance” approach and have every visitor collaborate to create and maintain a poesysteme every day. The game only got rebooted when the game crashed and at the end of the day.
People could add one or several words and see how they would trounce or get trounced by the other words that were there already there, adding their contribution to the gene pool. Before they left, I asked them if they wanted to adopt a word, based on a “Love at first sight” algorithm. Upon seeing a word they liked, they were asked to write a quick sentence depicting what the word meant.
Their collaborative efforts result in this dictionary of the absurd.
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.
I’m proud to announce that Poesysteme is an official IGF 2008 Student Competition Entrant.
No, actually, it’s true! Look here . Neat huh?
But then, look at the competition… Very good games all around! What a blessing/curse!
Oh well, we’ll see on “Monday, December 17th” according to the e-mail.