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« on: February 27, 2008, 12:52:30 PM »

Here are a few things I've taken away from GDC.

* Black and Milds + Sapporo makes for a great combination.

* It is possible to get booze on a tight deadline in San Francisco, but you might pay a price in blood.

* Rock Band is a great game for bringing people together.

* World of Goo will forever be confused with Goo.

* The indie game development community is full of passionate people who are fun to hang out with.

What have you learned?

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« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2008, 01:05:37 PM »

* 500 Bananas

* Denny's serves food on real plates, with real silverware

* Drunken indie-wannabes will fill your sketchbook with horrors if you're not careful.

* Hobo Princess: What did the mother say to Michael Jackson on the beach? 
  Derek: Uhh, leave me alone?
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« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2008, 01:15:43 PM »

* Sleep is for the weak

* You can eat at Denny's two nights in a row and live through the experience

* Sushi, while delicious, does not constitute a full meal

* Recording voices for games at 3am yields incredibly good results

* The suits just don't get it, man

* 10 yr old scotch is ok, but Jack Daniels is pretty good
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« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2008, 01:41:16 PM »

* The carpeted floors of Moscone are a good place to sleep off a massive hangover.

* It takes 3 days for an unrefrigerated container of chicken alfredo to start smelling like rotten old man poo.

* There are owls everywhere you go, you just have to look for them.

* Tommy is a cyborg.

* One week a year is not enough time. (*coughtigsconcough*)
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« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2008, 01:56:49 PM »

* If you just go to GDC for a few hours during the day, you'll miss pretty much everything ...

* Speakers get free food!
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« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2008, 02:01:41 PM »

* It takes 3 days for an unrefrigerated container of fettuccine supremo to start smelling like rotten old man poo.
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« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2008, 03:09:04 PM »

* It takes 3 days for an unrefrigerated container of fettuccine supremo to start smelling like rotten old man poo.

Oh that's what that was. It was hard to tell after the 3 days.
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« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2008, 03:38:02 PM »

*Filipino fast food joints serve spaghetti, hot dogs, burgers, and fried chicken, all on the same plate.

*Indies are the past, present, future, and nega-future of game development.

*Your game will crash as soon as you show it off. It is inevitable.

*It's hard to be taken seriously when wearing a pink shirt.

*John Romero doesn't know calculus, suck it down.
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« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2008, 04:54:51 PM »

  • Strippers have business cards
  • Phil Fish looks like Elvis Costello
  • Brandon is gorgeous
  • Sony > Microsoft
  • Brand leadership is important
  • Mental Illness is a bitch
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« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2008, 05:13:15 PM »

* Always have a stash of courage beans ready for the IGF.
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« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2008, 07:25:28 PM »

* I learned what "tru indy" is:





cactus showed me the night before he left.  That's about as indie as it gets, right there.  DENNY BLAZE 4 LYFE.
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« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2008, 07:40:54 PM »

It's amazing this guy never made it big.
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« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2008, 08:36:01 PM »

* Peter Molyneux's email is [email protected] and he is actually a woman.
* Vicky ...
* The Hooters concept is based on female sex appeal and the work environment is one in which joking and sexual innuendo based on female sex appeal is commonplace.
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« Reply #13 on: February 27, 2008, 11:21:34 PM »

It's amazing this guy never made it big.

What are you talking about he was a hit up on VH1
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« Reply #14 on: February 28, 2008, 12:54:49 AM »

  • Baltimore is number 1 in the US for various venereal diseases, but competes yearly with Detroit for murder rate
  • If the bar has a line, either get two drinks each time, or just get shots from the roaming midgets
  • Simply being Phil Fish can get you out of all manner of sticky situations
  • <3 Petri Purho
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« Reply #15 on: February 28, 2008, 04:30:32 AM »

- Indie game developers are pretty damn awesome.
- I make too many games, they all lack sufficient instructions, are all too hard and not long enough.
- Derek has a cool apartment.
- I hate airports.
- Sword will fucking slice a baby in half!
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« Reply #16 on: February 28, 2008, 08:38:40 AM »

  • Baltimore is number 1 in the US for various venereal diseases, but competes yearly with Detroit for murder rate
Has anybody been down Lombard St? Fried chicken, strip clubs, and sex shops. Police car always parked on the corner.
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« Reply #17 on: February 28, 2008, 11:21:04 AM »

There are only police cars parked there cuz it's where the police station is.  Tongue
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« Reply #18 on: February 28, 2008, 12:08:43 PM »

- I make too many games, they all lack sufficient instructions, are all too hard and not long enough.

I think you need to make more games with more boobs. Think Clean Asia, but with boobies somehow. I'll market for you...with boobs. Boobs.
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« Reply #19 on: February 28, 2008, 10:40:31 PM »

Well, building your police station near a strip club gives you something demeaning to do when you can't find enough minorities to beat.

The fried chicken is to recharge your batteries when your beatin' arm gets tired.
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