Hmm, well it seems that the gods are indeed not smiling on me. I got back to the hotel to discover my door ajar, and some stuff missing. Only a book and magazine as far as I can work out, but still somewhat unnerving. Oh yeah, and I’ve got a bloody cold - no boozy parties for me today. Bastard.
Other than that, I had a good day. I went to a day long tutorial on engineering issues for online gaming, which on the face of it isn’t that relevant to what I’m doing. I was worried that it would be a bit dry, and overly technical, but it turned out to be five excellent speakers, all with interesting stuff to say, and focussed on quite high level issues of planning, organisation, management etc. Very useful stuff, and a lot of it was quite applicable to next-gen development even if you’re not making an MMO game.
Marks out of five for the conference so far:
- goody bag: 1/5 (two juggling balls? what the hell is the use of that?)
- sessions: 5/5 (people who can talk to humans, what a relief)
- food: 3/5 (more than one choice for veggies would be nice)
- hotel: 1/5 (what’s mine is yours)
Top quotes so far:
“I like a good bitch… erm, no hang on, that came out wrong” - me, after ranting for a while.
“Johnny has a nice pink one” - Dave.