Speaking Engagements

I'm going to be speaking a few times this year.

If anybody can make the trek out to Nottingham to attend Gamecity (http://www.gamecity.org) - which sounds like it's going to be a really cool event - I'm going to be speaking there not once but TWICE!

I'll be talking at the Hand-To-Eye portion of the show, a talk called "What We Learn From Games", which is a favorite topic of mine.  It's not what we're "supposed" to learn - but we learn.  That one's Friday the 27th at the Adams Building, New College Nottingham, at 14:45.  http://handtoeye.net/index.php/site/full_prog/keynote_speaker_jamie_fristrom_games_fun_and_invisible_learning/

And I'll also be talking on the 28th about another favorite topic:  the preproduction phase of Spider-Man 2.  This time I'll be focusing on how it represented something you don't see too often in the industry these days:  respect for our audience.  Far too often I hear "you've got to dumb it down for the mass market."  On Spidey...we didn't do that.  http://gamecity.org/index.php/events/detail/i_did_that/  I didn't choose the embarrassing title, which is the name of the whole "lecture series", not the individual talk.  Spidey was a group effort.

And, speaking of preproduction, after Spidey 2, as a consultant, I've seen preproduction go sour many times, and I'm going to talk about that at the Asian Game Developers Summit in December - http://www.agdsummit.com/speakers.html.  That's December 9th-10th in Singapore.

Also, if anyone is going to be at either event and just wants to hang out and get a beer or whatever, send me an e-mail!  jdfristrom - at - gmail.com.

Comments

[Rob Segal]

Jamie I find your blog very informative and thought provoking. However please do not put dark blue link text on a black background. It burns my eyes!

[Gabby Dizon]

Jamie,

Are you buying me a beer in Singapore for recommending you to that gig? :)