Moscone West. They'd run out of food at Moscone North which was where the summit was. When we got here they'd also run out of food except for salads. On the left is Jens 'jeb' Bergenstein (Oxeye Games) Visible behind him is Erik Svedang (who made Blueberry Garden).
Skandies!
The indie virus is spreading. They are multiplying!
jeb, Erik, cactus. Swedes sporting red trousers
Some buildings and shit near Moscone North
cactus is setting up his talk
Indies in the front row
sifupeng and Petri Purho
sifupeng, brandon, cactus
More setup. I think I just got a bit photograph-happy here. There really isn't a point to this photograph.
cactus's desktop during setup.
jeb helping Petri hand out crayons. Later we used these to draw the person next to us as an exercise in Petri's excellent talk.
An unobscured view of cactus's desktop.
We are watching a game lecture by cactus.
We will be anyway, once the sound is working.
Introducing cactus.
cactus is talking about making games in 4 hours.
It turns out to be a completely hilarious presentation.
Your game is shit because YOU are shit.
OK, thanks for the tip. Let's all try to stink less.
If you get fat from making uninspired crap all the time, nobody will respect you.
The hardest part of making games is finishing something.
If you just copy other people, you won't get anywhere. You have to improve on things or stand out somehow.
Petri Purho's motivational desktop image.
Petri's Crayon Physics post-mortem was really great - funny, well presented and informative.
Dylan Fitterer presentede a talk about constraints as creative enablers. It was fascinating and rang very true with loads of aspects of my own game development.
Dylan Fitterer wrote Audiosurf. It was one of his 7-day prototypes (the three talks by cactus, Petri and Dylan were all heavily promoting and endorsing rapid prototype development).
It might be possible to make pretty convincing lego models of certain shapes, but using a constraint of three bricks can challenge the mind into being more creative. With an unlimited supply of a large variety of bricks, the task is reduced to laborious reproduction rather than creative imitation.
Later we met up with our musician, Brain and his wife Sophie. We went to eat Thai food in “King of Thai Noodle”. The food was damn good.
Although the accompaniment was a little dreary.
Andrew (Tunasnax) in the Brick bar on Sutter.
Andrew, Sarah (Tuna), Rudolf, Brian and Sophie
Some screwed up dessert.
Sarah, Rudolf, Brian
Sophie, Brian, Sarah, Rudolf
