I just stood in line for fifteen minutes at Specialties at 5th and Union, amidst dozens of PAXers... *swoon*
F!!! Wait there K, I'll be down at 5th/Onion by 11-- we'll do play-by-play all day, my hat says 'groot' in invisible ink, big letters, can't miss it. talk to ya soon
ps. i'm more of oldskool PAX, as in two bong hits, remote tthe changer to Xian channel, nostalgia trip to horrifying love: laura ingalls, manly, Pa, willie, nellie.... HIT THE STREETS
I have to admit that I'm the most attractive male at PAX. That ain't sayin much.
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Someone let me know when that nervous system exploration game is available, I'd totally play it. Or actually an endocrine system game would be even BETTER... it would be like a hormone strategy game and you could wildy affect the state of the body you're inside! Like, "woah, oxytocin hit! Now I'm lactacting!!" and there could be two players even who could battle it out inside the body. It would be like Pokemon for med students.
*wildly.
Your comparison to underground music is apt...there actually *is* a community of "underground" independent game developers. Some are doing amazing things by writing mods for existing games, others are actually starting to develop new games from scratch.
I'm working at Gameworks tonight for my studio's PAX-related party, handing out prizes.
I've been suggesting game concepts for the entire 13 years I've been in the local game industry, to no avail, and I was assured almost a decade ago by one of the PAX keynote speakers (then, my boss) that "Superheroes don't sell" after pitching a superhero-themed game at our studio. What a fool I was.
Wouldn't this have made more sense as "You're a Nazi who's been sent back in time to fight Ninjas" instead of the other way around?
While those ideas will probably never reach the actual drawing board of a developer, mine very well could.
Please, get over yourself.
"lostboy," I forget to edit back in the sarcasm inherent in that claim. Truly, the ninja time travel game has a far greater shot than mine. Sorry to mislead.
I crack my knuckles, and the knuckle-cracking thing was excruciating anyway. *shiver*
Sam @11, thanks for the response, and sorry for taking the quip seriously. I'm glad to have been wrong.
Dear Huge Fucking Geek posting this, or the Web staff who monitors (?) him:
Hide your extremely overwrought run-on posts under a jump for those who give a rip.
Oh my god, Frank, just don't read it if you're not interested... I'm digging it
@3
U crazy! I'm here. Plus I'm not single (as of today), which makes me hotter.
What sort of losers spend an August day in doors?
Dorks on dorks.
I was one of the panelists on the games business thing (and am a former Stranger videogame reviewer, for that matter). Thanks for the great write-up. I thought the panel description was the vaguest and most banal thing imaginable ("Changes in the Industry!"), but our moderator didn't show up and when we reviewed the list of canned questions, we rejected them all and wrote new ones that we thought were better. The result was a blast with a high dynamic range and I'm glad you were there to see the fireworks.
I didn't think it was as doom and gloom as you did, but c'est la guerre.
Hear the Yoda get wicked
*applause*
what IS ths? why are you guys spending so much time covering this?? get on to something else already.
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