The morning kicked off with a remarkably inspiring keynote from David Perry, a consultant in the industry with a career spanning 25 years. Perry began with a brief history of his career and I was more than happy to see screenshots from his ZX-81 games and some shots of games he worked on at Mikro-Gen […]

Apparently, World of Warcraft is an evil and corrupt game, game developers make better parents and those are just some of the topics covered at the Montreal Game Summit 2007 (MIGS 07).
We arrived at the Palais Des Congres in Montreal, at around 8am. The inside of the building reminded me of Dawn of the Dead without the […]

This week was the Seattle Casual Connect conference (the conference formerly known as Casuality). Talking to organizers there was around 1300 attendees this year, up from around 900 last year. What that really meant for me was that there were a lot of new faces, and many of those were people that are new to […]

The schedule for Casual Connect Seattle 2007 were just posted, and I’m going to be giving a talk as part of the Casual Games Academy on Day 0 of the conference (don’t ask me, how they came up with that). Anyway the talk is titled Casual Games are not Just Downloads and I’m going to […]

I promise, this will be the last time I post about OGDC It was a great conference. About 350 people attended, and I enjoyed all the sessions that I was able to go to. As always it was great getting to meet up with old friends that I hadn’t seen in a while too.
My […]

The interview I gave a couple weeks ago for the OGDC conference discussing the Appealing to the MMOB session I’ll be giving next week.
While the purpose of it is obviously to promote the upcoming session, I think it does a pretty good job of giving an overview of the current landscape surrounding advertiser involvement in […]

I’ll be speaking next month at OGDC 2007. My session is titled Appealing to the MMOB and should give a good overview of what it takes to build large-scale branded games. I plan to discuss some of the challenges in working in this space, as well as how rewarding it can be when done right. […]

A good portion of the management team here has been representing Fuel at Digital Hollywood’s Building Blocks in San Jose this week. Speaking as part of a panel on engagement and rich media, Jeff Doiron (AKA "Mr. President") was quoted in an article on Clickz.com

Doiron believes advertisers are wary of moving onto cell phones, […]

The past Friday was the annual North Amercian Virtools User Day. This event was timed to be the day after the Montreal International Game Summit (good recap here). The event was relatively small with about 35 people in attendance. It gave a great chance to talk with the folks from Virtools and learn first-hand about […]

I just got back from the Austin Game Conference. This is an event that has traditionally focused on large MMO type games. This year it was held in conjunction with the Women’s Game Conference and the Game Writer’s Conference.
Unfortunately I arrived partway through day 1 so I ended up missing what I heard were some […]