[Aphra K]

ok people the final week to our birthday shindig…

we have closed nominations although we could be influenced by particularly persuasive lobbying on behalf of particular posts…the nominations will be posted later today..

if anyone can think of people we should invite on friday night please let me know and I will add them to the reminder invitation I will send around later today..

if anyone is a dab hand at photography let me know cause I would like to make sure we have a couple of cameras around on the night..

any other suggestions…?

Aphra.

[Aphra K]

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[Aphra K]

some interesting publications on mobile entertainment and culture can be found here at the MGAIN website

Aphra.

[Aphra K]

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.

[Aphra K]

Jab,

Well Phil Bourke from Tipp IT won it but it was all very quiet…if you check the older threads in this section you’ll find a lot of questions about the competition…

Aphra.

[Aphra K]

The Hub just sent me through the following info which came from Abertay today..

‘In terms of recent graduate we have accepted people who graduated up to 24 months ago- as long as they are available and unemployed and not coming out of games companies. Maximum of 2 ‘graduates’ per team allowed. People currently in their 4th year do not count as graduates.

Regarding criteria: The judges will be looking for the following in the application forms

Team skills / abilities / all round?
Clarity of application
Market potential of product
Creativity of product
Ambition

Hope this helps…

Aphra.

[Aphra K]

I would just like to point out that Omen has overtaken Idora again in terms of number of posts..and as Idora is across the water at GDC it looks like he won’t be fighting back…

I’m luvin’ it…

Aphra.

[Aphra K]

there seems to be some ambiguity as to what a ‘recent’ graduate is in relation to the Dare competition and what the evaluation criteria for the Irish paper submissions are…

any help on these…?

Aphra.

[Aphra K]

I am interested in the cultural specificity of innovations in games…why do some games only do well in their country of origin…for example many of the Japanese games. How does that change our discussion.

Aphra.

[Aphra K]

yea..meeting a group from DCU this afternoon to chat about their submission..

Aphra..

[Aphra K]

the deadline for Dare Ireland is looming…hope you all have your submissions nearly ready…

Aphra.

[Aphra K]

I might also mention that Dylan Collins was very influential in getting EI to sponsor an Irish ‘room’ at GDC this year where Irish game companies can hold their meetings..given Dylan’s ability to run around and do ten things at the same time as well as popping into the shindigs I think for GD of the year he deserves a nomination…and he is on the IGDA Ireland committee…

Aphra.

[Aphra K]

that’s more like it….a real competition..

I’ll ignore the fact that you snuck yourself in!

Aphra.

[Aphra K]

by the way Jab has agreed to be the neutral person on the nominations…Ian and Co are working with me on getting a cool trophy developed..and since ye are all busy preparing for GDC we will extend the deadline for nominations till next Wed..the 31st…come on GD of the year…one nomination for Tony…we can’t let him just walk away with it!

Aphra.

[Aphra K]

Yea Ronny, I am insistent people can’t vote for me…the GD of the year has to go to someone else….there are certainly a few people who have made valient efforts to attend shindigs and written very useful posts and articles for the website. I have a few in mind….

Aphra.

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