Parties are a big part of the GDC networking culture, and every year there are a variety of public and private parties thrown by sponsoring orgnisations. This year was not different; yet one particular party attracted quite a number of people’s attention and heated discussion. The YetiZen party was on people’s talk even before the GDC because [...]

This one hour session, or five microtalks to be precise, was one of the best panel sessions I have seen at GDC. Dedicated to the question of “how do we create the experience of love in games?,” five speakers presented interesting perspectives, and I am going to summarise two most memorable ones in this posting. After [...]

* This is a revision of my previous posting “Comedy of Remarriage and Video Games” on Nov 23, 2011. ** The original post was intended to be a response to Richard Lemarchand’s remark during the IMD seminar on that if somebody can figure out how to do romantic-comedy in video games, it will be a huge hit. [...]

Note: I was initially planning to write a post about the IGDA Leadership Forum, but since many video recordings of the conference are available online, I decided to do something else. This post is a response to Richard Lemarchand’s remark during the IMD seminar on that if somebody can figure out how to do romantic-comedy in video [...]

          Here is the article from the CelebritySC blog people for the collaboration pitch event IMD council hosted on 9/23/2011. http://celebritysc.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/imd-council-brings-together-gamers-composers/ Big thanks to Participating students Mike Sennett, Loan Verneau, Erin Reynolds, Jay Bulvanoski, Kyla Gorman, Hyunggyu Oh, Alex Beachum, Mihir Sheth, Juli Griffo, Andy Uehara, Aaron Martin, and Ed Yee! You [...]

Given the narrative setup that the protagonist is a doctor, I narrowed down the location based on the map of health centers in Port-au-Prince, released by World Health Organisation in Feb 2, 2010. I specifically chose the area around Rue Oswald Durand for two reasons. Firstly, it is a main road that passes several landmark [...]

My project depicts the foreign world of post-earthquake Port-au-Prince through the eyes of Elaine Lee, a young Asian-American doctor who just arrived in Haiti as a part of an international aide group. The Foundation: A Real City Port-au-Prince is the capital of Haiti, located on the Gulf of Gonâve. On Junuary 12, 2010, Port-au-Prince was hit [...]