90% of what is considered 'impossible' is, in fact possible. The other 10% will becomes possible with the passage of time and technology. - Hideo Kojima ( Read more... )

Here are random quotes and notes I recorded, in no particular order:

• AI is easy to prototype - a few circles and squares on the screen are sufficient for showing spatial behaviors.
  
• "Bringing the floor up is more important than raising the roof." This was said in reference to avoiding "artificial stupidity" (e.g., in Heavenly Sword when the bad ( Read more... )

There's lots of Cell Processor mojo happening at Georgia Tech. My colleague Sean Lee and I teach Cell programming during the last part of our Multicore and GPU Programming for Video Games class, and my colleague David Bader runs a STI Center for Excellence for the Cell, so hitting every Cell talk I could find was a primary goal of the my week at ( Read more... )

Although I spent most of GDC attending technical presentations on programming, I indulged my artistic side by attending a session on the Art of Choral Writing (in the Audio Track), which was geared towards composers working in the video game industry. My wife and I both sang in college choirs, and we both sang in a highly professional community ( Read more... )

I spent all day Monday at GDC2009 at the Microsoft XNA Game Studio Developer Day. Microsoft will probably post the Powerpoint slides at some point, so I mostly took notes on off-the-cuff comments and interesting live demo bits that you couldn't easily glean by just looking at the slides ( Read more... )

Calling anyone who blogs, twitters, podcasts, or flikrs! Calling all modders, scripters, photoshoppers, and remixers!

1) Raph Koster, lead designer of Ultima Online, which served as a template for the current MMORPG craze, did a talk at the Game Developers Conference, now available as a podcast, called Where Game Meets the Web. The scope of the ( Read more... )