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good to see you guys getting together. If there is anything the rest of us can do to support just ask…
Aphra.
thanks to all who came out on Friday night. There was a great turnout and we had the entire downstairs to ourselves so there was no problem finding us!
I know I have to send a bit of info to some people so drop me an e-mail or PM and I will send that on..
Aphra.
PS I still don’t have much of a voice after the night..
none of Ian’s suggestions are too outrageous either if you look at what they are doing in the UK and in Korea.
Aphra.
Hi everyone…
I have just been asked why we don’t provide information on more companies in the current feature article.
Basically there is a link in the article to a fairly complete list of companies and in the article we only examined a limited number of these companies because
A) we felt the readership of the IEJ may not know what a console, mobile, middleware and localisation games company does so a brief paragraph on a company from each sector would be helpful
B) but we were faced with a word limit which we had to work within
Of course we don’t have that word limit now….but then the focus of the article is on issues faced by the industry, not an exhaustive list of companies…
open to hearing your comments on it though..
Aphra.
PS and I have clearer versions of the diagrams used in the article now which I will put up soon..
now I said nothing about singing..although maybe I could drag some people off to a table in the corner and people could provide me with more gossip mm, lyrics..on Tony!!
Aphra.
ok everyone, tables are booked for downstairs in Toners.
A few of us will be there early, around 7pm, and I’ll stick up a few posters for people who don’t know what we look like. Feel free to drop by and say hello – the more the merrier…
for those who are arriving later – we will try to be in a soberish state!!
Aphra.
in fact they are going beyond ADSL to some form of advanced ADSL…I bet they don’t even know what a dial-up modem sounds like..
Aphra.
internship just posted..and there is also a job going in UpStart, the Ukraine (!) and Selatra in Cork..
see http://www.gamedevelopers.ie/community/jobs/
Aphra.
no the cybercafes may still buy the boxes but that might be listed as a separate revenue stream from subscription accounts. I know that Vivendi are thinking of launching an online game in Korea which will be download and subscription only..no box..they can do that in Korea cause it has something like 70-80 percent broadband penetration to the home..
Aphra.
I am just going through ‘The Medium of the Video Game’ (1997)Wolf, M (Ed.) and one of the chapters is about a 1989 Video Game Exhibition at the American Museum of the Moving Image – the curator had a hard time convincing people at the time that video games should be shown alongside other moving image media…
Aphra.
I know that StarCraft was the biggie in Korea and that online is usually played in PC bangs, or internet cafes to us…maybe they separate out subscription and online pay per play revenues from retail box PC sales…..
just a guess..
Aphra.
