GDC Prelude

After a very uneventful journey, Evizaer and I are here in Austin for GDC! We also just had the best salsa we've ever had.

Of all things I could forget, I left my camera on my desk at home. I'm irked about it since GDC was one of the reasons I purchased it.

Regardless, I plan on taking notes on all the lectures and panels I attend. We are still ironing out a schedule. It's looking like we might diverge occasionally.

I'm steering a Flash/indie route in case I don't land a job in the next few months. But some of the other talks dealing with MMOs we plan on attending:

• Techniques for Improving Large World and Terrain Streaming
• Finding The Right Rewards To Sustain Player Engagement: A Close-up Look At The RPG
• Browser MMOGs - the Experts Talk
• The Universe of World of Warcraft
• Texturing Massive Terrain
• EVE Online's Player Elected Council Case Study
• A New Social Era for Games: How Your Friends Are Changing the Way the World Plays Games
• Games are Math: 10 Core Mechanics That Drive Compelling Gameplay
• Randomness: The Danger and Value of Chance Elements in Game Design

Some of them are technical, but we like that stuff :)