Peter Molyneux, room 4-027, DIT aungier st

I think this is an interesting development – the Dublin Film Festival getting involved in bringing over major game designers for a public event.

Well done to Hugh McT in DIT for his work on this and thanks to Steve C too..

Aphra.

Crikey. Molyneux? That’s a big catch!

Any more news on this?

Good to hear. Any idea on what he’ll be talking about?

well we could give him some suggestions and there will be a Q&A session after his talk so line up some q’s or if you can’t make it send them on to us and we will try and ask some of them

Aphra.

What? We have to go for drinks after too? :)

Dave

Don’t forget to post ideas for questions you would like me to ask the two guys next week here if you are not attending – or even if you are attending and you don’t want to ask in public …

Aphra.

Molyneux has recently been outspoken about his frustrations with the British government and their lack of tax breaks & incentives for games companies in the UK. I’d be interested to hear what he thought about the same issues with respect to Ireland.

Of course I wouldn’t be around to hear the answer – any chance this is being recorded in any way?

Hi guys

Just to let you know we will be streaming this event live from the website:

http://seriousgames.ie

Also feel free to join our facebook group:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/seriousgamesie/367163607574

Bryan

which DIT is it? it’s not clear from the booking …

Looks like it’s this one

http://www.yelp.ie/biz/dit-aungier-street-dublin

Hopefully I don’t get lost trying to find it :P

Its being held in Room 4027 in Aungier St DIT. Its a collaboration between the School of Computing (DIT Kevin St) and the School of Media (DIT Aungier St) as is the MSc in Digital Games course we are launching at the event, which has a technical stream and an applied arts stream.

Bryan

Re: Streaming it. Cool thanks guys.

Aungier is the posh new one, newish one, that is near the Cornerstone pub.

It is on your left coming from Dame street, pass the Avalon hostel and St. Valentine’s church and just before you hit the junction of Kevin Street and Wexford Street – the building itself is set back from the street with lots of glass.

Aphra.

You will give me a complex. Who says we cant be posh in Kevin St too?

well my offices are in old nuns quarters…so I was speaking relatively…Kevin street was posh once I am sure!

Aphra.

If you are not attending you can watch it LIVE on seriousgames.ie

and you can post questions for the panel on our facebook page..

http://www.facebook.com/pages/seriousgamesie/367163607574%5B/quote:6816ae548a%5D

Excellent the world really is getting smaller :)

Well done to all involved in getting this event / speakers organised – impressive stuff!

Cheers,
Ian

Great to have a live feed, thanks guys.

Just want to say hats off to the team in DIT (Bryan, Hugh .. et al). That’s some lineup and one that will keep the twittersphere busy over the coming days. Best of luck with the new programme launch.

Cheers Lads – watched it online – very interesting and entertaining talk – top speakers. Great Q’s from the audience as well.

The stream itself was perfect quality – it was almost as if I was there – well, except the beer afterwards of course :)

Sink one for me and have a great evening!

Cheers,
Ian

Unfortunately not so perfect from over here, it stuttered & skipped the whole way through :(. That’s what I get for living on the other side of the world I guess. Will there be a video posted at any stage?

That’s a shame satchmo – agreed, a download of the various sections would be useful.

It was a great talk, thanks to all those involved. Great event altogether.

Fantastic Event. Well done all

Yes well done to all and to the Jameson Dublin Film Festival whose support made it all possible. Good to see some games events as part of other media events.

Aphra.

Super event.. Not only inspiring, but entertaining.

Thanks to all the people that made it happen.

thanks so much for bringing all this to us, thoroughly inspiring. a question i wanted to ask connelly or molyneaux but felt was off point was about xbox live indie games availability in ireland, is it gonna happen? did anyone get chatting to them after about this?

An excellent event all around, well done on some excellent organisation and speakers.

Dave

thanks so much for bringing all this to us, thoroughly inspiring. a question i wanted to ask connelly or molyneaux but felt was off point was about xbox live indie games availability in ireland, is it gonna happen? did anyone get chatting to them after about this?[/quote:a673ab7aee]

It was mentioned in passing when Molyneaux said how there were like 20 different platforms one could develop for, but honestly the topic wasn’t covered in any depth.

Does anyone have a video of the event because I missed it

Although the video is not available Molyneux’s talk was similar (though not identical) to this speech given at the baftas: http://www.bafta.org/access-all-areas/videos/peter-molyneux-bafta-video-games-lecture,887,BA.html

Nonetheless I am really looking forward to seeing the full video of the event in particular the Q+A session where a lot of the real beef of the evening’s discussion came up. Toward the end a chap at the back asked a great question about the nature of challenge in video games which I think is a hot topic in the context of natal and games like heavy rain and braid with their unique approach to the penalty dynamic of death and restart (and frustration!!!). Really, can’t wait to recap the answers from the panel.

Hugh was talking about putting the movies online for viewing afterwards. Not sure what the status is as at present

Great event thought. With both Unity and CryEngine, the DIT games courses are looking pretty decent