[casual_games] GDC 2007 passes?

[Bret Terrill]

Neil,

Thanks for the pointer to the GDC 2007 Conference
Associates Application page
(http://www.gdconf.com/register/caregistration.htm). 
If anyone else is looking to get into the GDC, go
ahead and put in an application.  They'll put you on a
waiting list.  And obviously, if you get picked off
the waiting list, you owe Neil a beer.  He'll be
pretty thirsty after all those sessions on AI.

Bret
www.bretterrill.com


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> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:40:42 -0500

> From: "Kirby, Neil A (Neil)"

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> Subject: Re: [casual_games] GDC 2007 passes?

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> >Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:47:00 -0800 (PST)

> >From: Bret Terrill <base_taylor at yahoo.com>

> >Subject: [casual_games] GDC 2007 passes?

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> >I'm hoping that somebody on this list might have an

> >extra pass or two for the GDC that are going to go

> >unused and might want to bequeath them onto a

> couple

> >of impoverished game developers.  I'd really like

> to

> >see the panel discussions, such as the one Margaret

> is

> >moderating.  If not, hopefully, some one here can

> blog

> >about the conference and give us poor suckers a

> taste

> >of GDC knowledge.

> >

> >hanks,

> >

> >Bret

> 

> I have got to hand it to you for the "never hurts to

> ask" attitude.  At first I laughed out loud (very

> glad that I'd finished my morning tea).  I do

> actually wish you the best of luck.  I don't have a

> pass to give away.  I did have a pass to give away

> see http://foundation.igda.org/?p=7 but it has been

> awarded.

> 

> Here are some real ways to get into GDC without

> taking the financial spear to the chest and simply

> paying for it:

> 

> 1) Be a speaker.  My personal favorite, it gets you

> a Giga pass and puts you next to some of the coolest

> people in the industry.  The speaker/VIP party rocks

> like nothing else.  And you can get papers published

> this way too.

> 

> 2) Win a scholarship.  Good if you are a student.

> http://www.igda.org/scholarships/

> 

> 3) Volunteer to be a Conference Associate.  The

> deadline for this is way over but the old URL is

> http://www.gdconf.com/register/caregistration.htm

> This is hard work, but the price is hard to beat.  I

> know a number of people who do the CA thing because

> it fits their nearly-non-existent budget.  I once

> said to my late friend Eric, "always be nice to the

> CAs, they could be your boss next year."  He

> replied, "Boss?  They could be your producer!"  This

> was actually the case for him.  To be a CA, you have

> to be able to work hard and keep a pleasant

> attitude, even if the people around you are not

> compelled to have a pleasant attitude.  See

>

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/03/25/gdc-conference-organizers-drop-the-ball/

> to see how the CA staff can get caught in the

> middle.  If you can't do the "with a good attitude

> under pressure" part, please, do NOT pollute the

> ranks of the CA staff.  I turn in rude, sexist,

> un-helpful CAs to the two guys who run the whole CA

> staff.  I also, when I can,!

>   point out to those same guys when I see a CA

> exceed my expectations.  Good CA staff members get

> to be CAs year after year.  Bad CAs tend to never

> make the cut again.  As a speaker, I know that my

> session could live or die based on whether a CA can

> get something done for me [this has happened more

> than once].  They are "I can help" and "I don't know

> how, but we can make that happen" kind of people. 

> 

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> ---

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> Message: 2

> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:15:01 -0500

> From: "Charles Jackson"

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> Subject: Re: [casual_games] Enjoy innovation... it's

> Friday!

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> Great find! I tried it, and at first I guess I

> misinterpreted the

> directions, but then it was wonderful! Thanks :)

> 

> On 2/23/07, Juan Gril <juangril at jojugames.com>

> wrote:

> > Posted in FreeGamesNews today:

> >

> > http://www.game-pure.com/flash/speedcluster/

> >

> > And here are the instructions, as it is in

> Japanese:

> >

> > "The goal here is to drag and drop cards from your

> hand onto the blue

> > markers at the base of each of the four columns

> where random cards fall.

> >

> > The card you drag onto the blue marker must be in

> sequence with the falling

> > one (either higher or lower). The more cards you

> drag onto the same blue

> > marker to make combos, the better!

> >

> > The game is timed and creating combos refills your

> time bar. Click the blue

> > markers to pass if you want to quickly discard

> some falling cards."

> > Cheers,

> >

> > Juan

> >

> >

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> Message: 3

> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:18:48 -0000

> From: J?nas Bj?rgvin Antonsson <jonas at gogogic.is>

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> Friday!

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> I've been hooked on this game for days :)

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> From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org on behalf of

> Charles Jackson

> Sent: f?s. 23.2.2007 22:15

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> Subject: Re: [casual_games] Enjoy innovation... it's

> Friday!

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> 

> 

> Great find! I tried it, and at first I guess I

> misinterpreted the

> directions, but then it was wonderful! Thanks :)

> 

> On 2/23/07, Juan Gril <juangril at jojugames.com>

> wrote:

> > Posted in FreeGamesNews today:

> >

> > http://www.game-pure.com/flash/speedcluster/

> >

> > And here are the instructions, as it is in

> Japanese:

> >

> > "The goal here is to drag and drop cards from your

> hand onto the blue

> > markers at the base of each of the four columns

> where random cards fall.

> >

> > The card you drag onto the blue marker must be in

> sequence with the falling

> > one (either higher or lower). The more cards you

> drag onto the same blue

> > marker to make combos, the better!

> >

> > The game is timed and creating combos refills your

> time bar. Click the blue

> > markers to pass if you want to quickly discard

> some falling cards."

> > Cheers,

> >

> > Juan

> >

> >

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