GDC News

Yeah, I’m sure we’ll get to hear many great stories at the next shindig Ian.

Check out Gamasutra’s coverage of the conference here as they are also keeping us no-shows up to date. :)

http://www.gamasutra.com/gdc2004/

Looks like its all happening at GDC this year.
Headline news stories constantly changing on gameindustry.biz.

Wind Waker 2 and Metroid Prime 2 announced – view at E3
NGage 2 announced – view at E3
KuJu working with Nintendo
XNA demonstration…

Makes you wish you were there…. [/quote:db5f178bc3]

Damo – remember I said Nintendo should stop ignoring the talent in the UK? Finally they listen to me – knew they would :D

Hey what about all the talent being ignored in Ireland????? ;)

we’ve lined up Tony to write a review of GDC this year as next months feature. So hopefully we’ll get some of the news even before the shindig…

Aphra.

Eiji Aonuma (Zelda Producer) talks (well via translation).

The lecture is entitled “The Evolution of a Franchise: The Legend of Zelda”

http://www.planetgamecube.com/media/gen001647.mp3

[EDIT: Its very cool school]

First PsP video; clean polys.

http://www.1up.com/article2/0,2053,1554460,00.asp

Hi all,
Just back at work today after GDC. If anyone wants pdfs of the proceedings I’ll do my best to burn you a copy.

Hi Pete,
Welcome back! I’d love a copy if that’s OK?

I have two DVD’s of yours that were left in my bag ;)
Will bring them along friday.

How did you get on over there?

Cheers,
Ian

I’d be interested too…and welcome back…we missed the GDC travellers…

Aphra.

Hey Pete,

If you don’t mind stuffing your bag full of copies I would really like one. I’ll be very interested to hear how it went on Friday. :)

I’ll see what I can do lads. Oh Ian, those DVDs belong to Tony (assuming its Miller’s Crossing and Pirates). See you all on Friday, lots to tell you!!

A wealth of GDC pics can be found here.

Worth a look…

there’s lots more piccies on Gamasutra in the GDC Diaries section. I’ve included a link to it in the review of GDC I’ve written… should be going up any day now…

I also have piccies of some of our nation’s top developers in various stages of inebriation. Access can be provided for a small fee…

Eurogamer have posted a transcription of John Carmack’s GDC Programming Track keynote. All 3 parts can be found here:

Part 1 – http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=55089
Part 2 – http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=55107
Part 3 – http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=55119

Carmack: “In many cases physics is still one of those things where everyone has a physics engine now and they all sort-of kind-of work, but everybody knows pretty much what you do to go ahead and break most physics engines. We’re still doing basically trivial things. Y’know it’s cool to have little boxes bounce around and knock off of each other and land in different orientations and rag doll the character, but when we start looking at what people will be experimenting with in current and future game generations – there will be simulations of weather, simulations of liquid, simulations of dust motes going through the air and transferring through the environments, and all of these are interesting, challenging problems that we can get some mileage out of.[/quote:8a94132836]

Oh god games will get more complex to make – yay :( :D