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 […]

The website isn’t updated yet, but I’ll be speaking at the Austin Game Conference next week on the Casual Game Evolution Summit: Moving Beyond Downloads panel.
I’ve heard good things about this event in the past but this will be my first time attending. Hopefully I’ll see some of you there!

The FuturePlay conference has just finished up and I think the organizers should be very happy with what they put together.
The topics were very wide ranging from topics on academia and industry collaboration to game design and AI. My own panel on the future of Casual Games (slides to be posted soon) seemed to be […]

If you are based in Europe or are looking for an excuse to visit Paris, you should consider attending the The 2005 Online Games Summit. I will be co-chairing this conference and it is being put on with the support of the IGDA’s Online and Casual Games SIGs.
We think that we’ve put together a strong […]

If you’re based in or near Europe this should be a great conference to attend. Casuality Europe, a Casual Game focused conference that will be held in Amsterdam next February. There isn’t a lot of information on the site yet, but considering that it is being organized by some of the same people that put […]

I’ll be speaking at Future Play 2005 about the Future of Games and the impact the casual market will have on the industry.
Looking at the rest of the speakers this should be a pretty good event. It’s a lot more academic focused than many of the other conferences I’ve been to. It should be interesting […]

Day 2 of the Casual Games Conference started off a bit slow with everyone trickling in a bit late in the morning. Once things got going the conference content again proved to be very solid.
Casual Game Audio: This session from Guy Whitmore of Microsoft was tragically underattended. Guy obviously knows a tremendous amount about game […]

Today was the first day of the Casual Games Conference. Overall it was a very good day. There is about 450+ attendees here, and the mood is very good. This is a small developer community that is extremely friendly, and that shows throughout.
Multiplayer Session A great session to kick off the conference. The main themes […]

It’s that time of year again. CMP Media has just opened the call for abstracts for the 2006 Game Developers Conference.
It looks like there’s several changes to the overall submission process this year, and I expect that will result in some always welcome fresh new content.

Laser Envy has swept the Flash festivals winning for best game at FITC and last week’s Flashforward 2005 New York.