Develop 2009: Video Games as the Eighth Art

I was very interested in going to Dennis Dyack’s talk on games as the eight art, it seemed like a bit of a silly talk in some respects, he was explaining how he feels the telling of stories is going to become much more noticeably dominant than gameplay, which myself and I’m sure a large [...]

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Develop 2009: Masaya Matsuura and Jenova Chen – Designer Mash Up

The first scheduled event of Thursday morning that I decided to go see was the Designer mash up with Jenova Chen and Masaya Matsuura. It started off with Masaya playing Flower, where he explained to us how he doesn’t play a huge amount of games because he doesn’t enjoy shooting and killing people. So instead [...]

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Develop 2009: The Art of LittleBigPlanet – A Big Medley

The Art keynote of the conference was one given by Mark Healey and Kareem Ettouney of Media Molecule, focusing mainly on what decisions were made when creating Little Big Planet. If anything the main focus of the presentation was showing us the process they went through when choosing the direction they wished the art to [...]

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Develop 2009: The Edge Panel: Architecture and Games

The third talk of the day that I attended was a panel on games as architecture, which was extremely interesting mainly just from hearing Viktor Antonov’s explanations of what input he had on Half-Life 2.
Viktor Antonov had always been attracted to epic scale buildings, and similar iconic architecture as found in film, and he started [...]

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Develop 2009: When a Creative Director Attacks!

The second talk of the day that I had a chance to witness was Paul Barnett’s talk on his time as a creative director for EA, entitled ‘When a Creative Director Attacks! or What I Learned this Year with EA!’. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from the talk, it was hugely enjoyable and [...]

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Develop 2009: flOw and Flower: Games and Art

Jenova Chen co-founder of thatgamecompany, best known for Flow and Flower attended Develop and had one of the first talks of the Wednesday. I did actually miss the first five or so minutes of his talk, but from what I walked in on I was entranced straight away. When people discuss entertainment and our opinions [...]

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Big hello to all the readers of the WiG blog

I would firstly like to say a huge thank you to WiG for making all this happen.
My first entry is just going to be a brief introductory post so everyone can know a little about me and how I was introduced to WiG.
My name is Catherine Woolley, I went to the University of Wales, Newportand [...]

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Women in Games blogger winner

Women in Games are thrilled to welcome Catherine Woolley as this year’s guest blogger for our involvement with this year’s Develop in July and DiGRA in September. In return for free passes to the events she will be representing the WiG network and live blogging both events for this site.
Catherine has just graduated from The [...]

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Experiences of Working for a Game Company – Vicky Arundel [Introversion Software]

Vicky Arundel is one of our invited guest bloggers. Vicky sent some artwork to WIG 2007 conference, and very kindly allowed us to run the DEFCON game there. She shares with us some thoughts on her experiences of working in the Games industry…

Despite some early dalliances with the likes of Monkey [...]

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Making games is for everyone: Judy Robertson

Judy Robertson is the third author in our Guest Blogger series. She’s a lecturer in computer science at Heriot-Watt University, and is Principal investigator on the EPSRC funded Adventure Author project. Since 2003 she has lead many game making workshops for children at the Edinburgh International Science Festival and for Edinburgh City Council. She’s got [...]

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