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Title: This will be my first GDC Post by: Glaiel-Gamer on March 14, 2009, 12:08:11 AM Any suggestions?
(I'm actually giving a short presentation too) Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: Alec on March 14, 2009, 12:20:41 AM Go deep.
BALLS DEEP. Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: ___ on March 14, 2009, 09:04:44 AM Any suggestions? (I'm actually giving a short presentation too) Get ready to savage on mad sushi. Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: Glaiel-Gamer on March 14, 2009, 12:09:44 PM sweet I love sushi
Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: fish on March 14, 2009, 01:44:15 PM live fast, die young and NEVER LOOK BACK!
:handthumbsupL: Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: FrostedSentry on March 15, 2009, 08:40:00 PM Don't drive into San Francisco. For the love of all things sacred, keep your vehicle away from that place. Make someone else do it.
Oh, and bring Business Cards. Lotz, and make it cool. If it's not cool, you'll be eaten. :D Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: Glaiel-Gamer on March 15, 2009, 09:02:54 PM Don't drive into San Francisco. For the love of all things sacred, keep your vehicle away from that place. Make someone else do it. Oh, and bring Business Cards. Lotz, and make it cool. If it's not cool, you'll be eaten. :D I'm staying with family and taking a train into the city every day, it's a lot cheaper than a hotel. And I got 190 cards printed up, so I'm good then. Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: c-foo peng on March 15, 2009, 09:42:38 PM Never sleep. Never ever sleep.
Also don't feed the homeless people. They only want your brains! Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: Edmund on March 15, 2009, 11:04:02 PM bring a gun
Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: Glaiel-Gamer on March 15, 2009, 11:39:49 PM Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: Edmund on March 16, 2009, 12:04:09 AM can your knife shoot bullets? Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: havchr on March 16, 2009, 02:35:32 AM bring a bullet.
cooperative Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: Matthew on March 16, 2009, 07:47:29 PM - Talk to the guy next to you in the lunch line. Be friendlier than usual, even if you're normally outgoing.
- Write down reminders on business cards when you get them ("met in lunch line Tues"). You're going to forget people. - Drink twice as much water as you think you need. 4x if you're drinking at parties. - Save getting drunk drunk for Friday or Saturday after the show. - If a session sucks in the first five minutes, for god's sake get up and leave. - If a session absolutely rocks text your friend. Maybe their session sucks. - It's not really about the sessions. - Find sessions that attract interesting people. Mingle with them after. Suggest lunch together if a discussion starts up after an 11am session. - Speak up in roundtables, but be concise. - If you care about t-shirts/etc hit up the expo right before show closing; they don't want to haul their shit home. - Everybody is approachable. Only 1 in 1,000 people are genuinely aloof or inaccessible (and there aren't 1,000 speakers)! - Be nice to the CAs (colored-shirt volunteers). Many of them are indies or even mainstream pros whose companies wouldn't shell out the cash for a pass. - Write down your thoughts during the week. You'll have a lot of inspired ones! - Keep your game readily demoable on your laptop (or a thumb drive, or a video on your iPhone, or whatever), in case it comes up in conversation. Don't be overbearing on demos--politely show your game but don't kill a table of conversation with a forced 30-minute walkthrough. - Rehearse your presentation! If you want last-minute feedback hang out in a speaker lounge and ask anyone there to listen to a part of it (intro, or whole thing if it's super short). Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: Farbs on March 17, 2009, 06:32:29 AM Great tips Matt. Thanks dude!
Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: BMcC on March 17, 2009, 06:41:39 AM can your knife shoot bullets? Point Edmund. :DAnd yeah, lots of water and vitamins, actually sleep, don't drink too much, etc. (But really!) Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: fish on March 17, 2009, 10:39:01 AM get fucked up everyday until 4am and NEVER LOOK BACK.
Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: gummikana on March 17, 2009, 12:34:22 PM get fucked up everyday until 4am and NEVER LOOK BACK. Only if you have Phil's endurance for hang overs. I can't do it, but Phil can. And I'm so jealous of him and his ability to drink all night and get up early in the morning. Also don't go and get wasted on the last night if your plane is leaving early in the morning. Or do go and get wasted on the last night if you want to participate the "I missed my plane" party. Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: fish on March 17, 2009, 12:56:35 PM last year i missed my flight for exactly those reasons, and my carrier couldnt get me back to montreal for another FIVE DAYS. so i spent an extra unplanned week in San Francisco and it was fantastic! only cost me 65 bucks to re-schedule.
Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: ___ on March 17, 2009, 12:58:07 PM My flight leaves 8:45am on the saturday after. NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. I might have to just stay up the entire friday night and hold off sleep until I'm on the plane.
Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: fish on March 17, 2009, 01:00:46 PM i tried that once.
just amke sure you're actually capable of sleeping on a plane. i found out i wasnt. the hard way. Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: ___ on March 17, 2009, 01:04:18 PM I'll bring poutine on the plane and eat myself into a coma.
Actually right now I'm trying to figure out if I can push my returning flight out a day or two, I just need a place to crash for those days. Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: sillytuna on March 19, 2009, 08:42:14 AM I always make the mistake of staying out too late and by Friday I'm a mess, usually followed by a Saturday being ill.
The main thing is to go out and enjoy it. You'll meet all sorts of wonderful people at GDC if you're prepared to speak to anyone. Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: BMcC on March 19, 2009, 08:59:45 AM i tried that once. I can't sleep on planes either, but I think I'm gonna go with the no-sleep-the-night-before plan anyway.just amke sure you're actually capable of sleeping on a plane. i found out i wasnt. the hard way. Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: Glaiel-Gamer on March 19, 2009, 04:52:37 PM Since I'm staying with family outside of san francisco I have to catch a (train?) back there before 12:30 every night, so meh no all-nighter for me (maybe next year if I get a hotel)
Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: The Ivy on March 20, 2009, 06:00:25 PM You'd bring a knife to a gunfight? Title: Re: This will be my first GDC Post by: BMcC on March 20, 2009, 06:11:03 PM Clearly he's never been to Baltimore.
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