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    • #7602
      Anonymous
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    • #45263
      Aphra K
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      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.

    • #45272
      Anonymous
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      Crikey. Molyneux? That’s a big catch!

    • #45279
      Anonymous
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      Any more news on this?

    • #45280
      Anonymous
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      Hi!

      Yes, i should have confirmation of a venue and the other ‘guest’ speaker sometime tomorrow tuesday. Capacity to this event will be limited to 150 or so, ill publish a sign up form when the details are confirmed. This wont gaurentee a place though, but give me an indication of space requirements.

      It will take place in the evening time on thursday 25th

    • #45281
      Anonymous
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      Good to hear. Any idea on what he’ll be talking about?

    • #45283
      Aphra K
      Keymaster

      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.

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      Anonymous
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      Anonymous
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      Anonymous
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      Timetable

      The proposed timetable at the moment is

      6:30 – Peter Molyneux
      7:15 – Peter Connolly
      8:00 – Tea and coffee
      8:15 – Q&A along with our Panel discussion to include both speakers
      an irish technology industry member and a irish film industry member

      Can i suggest that we have an informal shindig afterwards in ryans or somewhere?

    • #45339
      Anonymous
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      What? We have to go for drinks after too? :)

      Dave

    • #45340
      Aphra K
      Keymaster

      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.

    • #45342
      Anonymous
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      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?

    • #45344
      Anonymous
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      Folks

      We are planning to stream the event ‘LOIVE’ through our new website
      which we will be launching next week. Details of the stream I will post later.

      We will also have a twitter feed for people who might be watching to post comments and questions.

      Sign up to

      https://twitter.com/seriousgamesirl

      and become a fan of our facebook page (seriousgames ireland) to post questions, comments etc

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

    • #45353
      Anonymous
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      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

    • #45354
      Anonymous
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      which DIT is it? it’s not clear from the booking …

    • #45355
      Anonymous
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      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

    • #45356
      Anonymous
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      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

    • #45357
      Anonymous
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      Re: Streaming it. Cool thanks guys.

    • #45359
      Aphra K
      Keymaster

      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.

    • #45364
      Anonymous
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      You will give me a complex. Who says we cant be posh in Kevin St too?

    • #45365
      Aphra K
      Keymaster

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

      Aphra.

    • #45366
      Anonymous
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      Timetable

      The revised schedule is

      6:00 – Launch of the NEW MSc in Digital Games (4th floor)
      6:30 – Peter Molyneux (room 4-027)
      7:15 – Tea and coffee (4th Floor)
      7:30 – Peter Connolly (room 4-027)
      8:15 – Q&A along with our Panel discussion to include both speakers
      an irish technology industry member (havok) and a irish film industry member Neil Leyden (Digital Hub) (room 4-027)

    • #45367
      Anonymous
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      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

    • #45369
      Anonymous
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      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

    • #45370
      Anonymous
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      Thanks ian

      Dont forget to post any questions you may have online
      if you are watching, ill be on the PC to pass the questions to the panel

      H

    • #45371
      Anonymous
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      Great to have a live feed, thanks guys.

    • #45372
      Anonymous
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      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.

    • #45374
      Anonymous
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      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

    • #45375
      Anonymous
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      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?

    • #45376
      Anonymous
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      That’s a shame satchmo – agreed, a download of the various sections would be useful.

    • #45377
      Anonymous
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      It was a great talk, thanks to all those involved. Great event altogether.

    • #45378
      Anonymous
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      Fantastic Event. Well done all

    • #45379
      Aphra K
      Keymaster

      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.

    • #45380
      Anonymous
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      Folks

      Thanks everybody for turning up, for the comments… and for tuning in… the good news is that we will be streaming each section of the talk from next week, on demand… so yes you will be able to watch it…

      Thanks to you aphra for coordinating the panel discussion yesterday and for all the advice suggestions and help in the build up…

      H

    • #45381
      Anonymous
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      Super event.. Not only inspiring, but entertaining.

      Thanks to all the people that made it happen.

    • #45382
      Anonymous
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      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?

    • #45383
      Anonymous
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      An excellent event all around, well done on some excellent organisation and speakers.

      Dave

    • #45385
      Anonymous
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      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.

    • #45387
      Anonymous
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      Does anyone have a video of the event because I missed it

    • #45389
      Anonymous
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      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.

    • #45390
      Anonymous
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      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

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