Austin Game Conference

The Austin Game Conference will be September 11-12 this year in the inimitable city of Austin. Raph Koster (Star Wars Galaxies) and Mark Jacobs (Dark Age of Camelot) will be giving keynote speeches, and a lot of other great people - Jessica Mulligan, Sheri Graner Ray, Mike McShaffry, Rich Vogel, many others - will be speaking. The focus - as you may have guessed from the glimpse of the line-up above - is online games.

Also, Machinima films will be shown at the conference. Machinima blends 3d technology, animation, and traditional film-making. More information is available on their pretty but pretty annoyingly Flash-driven official website.

We're headed to the Tokyo Game Show later that month but maybe we'll stop over in Austin to visit friends at Ion and check out the conference. See you there?

Comments

[Hugh Hancock]

Ah, a note here. There is no "official" Machinima website. Machinima is a movement of people using 3D real-time environments to make films, not a company or product.

More info can be found at the rather less FLash-driven http://www.machinima.com as well.

(Note: I'm on the board of http://www.machinima.org - just wanted to make it clear that this isn't a proprietory technology or anything.)

[robnit]

You can link to more info on Mike McShaffry at
www.mcshaffry.com/GameCode.
Mike is the author of the recently released book Game Coding Complete.
-r

[jane]

ah! thank you for clearing that up, Hugh.

and thanks for the info on Mike McShaffry! the book sounds very interesting.

[AlfredT]

Hey,

I am going to be with one of the exhibitors at the Austin game conference. I find your gaming/society related articles relevant and interesting; if you can drop by I would love to have a chat with you.

-Alfred

[Pussy Cat]

Too bad all of these conferences were too far for me to attend them :( But maybe some day I'll be able to go to some of them!

[poae]

There are other machinima websites. Craftingworlds.com has a website with machinima artists and How To's etc.

~poae