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Oh…*Right…*People don't speak french in this part of town, here goes :

Well, I might be overthinking that but that won't be the first time : Jean Jacques Rousseau

You should ask, as was pointed out at GDC, any kid what they prefer on a cake. They'll say the icing and you'll make them an cake made fully of icing. Then you will realize that the human race just stepped backwards. So Human sexuality in art is possible, using big tits to try and get horny men to play your games is just the easy way. Fixed I might have missed the whole "sarcasm" point here, if so I'll just delete.

In my experience that is as necessary as having a brain able to contain and perceive hugely complex mathematical models that cross, intersect and possibly add up to something different as the AI guys I worked with had -Yeah, but remember, when he detects that and this he's supposed to do that ! -Well, what about in that situation ? Then what ? -Eeeerm… Well, you find out *at this point I runaway in my office to cry*

I'll probably sadden me to kill my fellow thumbs, especially those with whom I played L4D2, but please, define your zombie apocalypse. Cause then survival spans from "walking a little faster than usual keeping your eyes open" in the case of slow zombies with no particular abilities to "being able to fend off a giant mutant with your teeth and bare hands along with having an organism resistant to any disease spread by breath / mosquitoes / physical contact"

Hmmmm…*What position would you like to have then ? Because as far as I saw, AI engineers have a diploma in "doing nothing but code for 3 years of my life" and eventually mastered in mathematics or robotics or something but "taught myself C++ this summer" seems not pro enough to get a job I fear… Sorry I missread the post, best of luck in your search, with that diploma you should get one straight away. Oh and that was a-propos

Well, as Chris said, what has been working for a few billion years might be valuable, but that would be learning the history of boardgames and child's games, divination games and also History of civilization (don't know if you've been to R.A. Salvatore telling his life to everybody with real bits of wisdom in it but it was also about that) over "what have the last decades of gaming brought to the table". In fact, tools can be useful to get into the industry, not really to stay there. Moreover, the tools themselves vary quite considerably from one company to the next, and, might I add, Game Design is a not really a tool-oriented profession. Whereas it would be hard to come to a company saying "I'm an awesome programmer but don't know any language" or "I'm a killer modeler but don't know any 3D program" because you would lose a lot of efficiency coming with no baggage at all, I feel you could make a very good game designer with a pen. Coming to design philosophies, what do you mean by that ? I can't really coin the meaning of the term ^.^

Well, I have taught and confered in 3 schools in France and 1 in Québec, what I can say is what's been said about music rings true here, but a lot of students take those to heart. They learn what works and then get hired and apply what they were taught. Thing is, you can't really blame them for doing what they're told, but when you try to talk with them, they barely know of Braid or for that matter of any indie game at all. They're IGN in school, which depresses me. So, a game curriculum will get you hired that's a fact, now will it make you more aware of what's interesting in games, what can be made and so on…*Not that much actually (from what I've seen at least). To come back to what you said about games and meaning Chris, it won't come from there.

Yeah, so you go to a store, have your body scanned, or maybe you'd like to do it remotely ? So something scans something and sends it… WAIT data transfer, can be faked…

Hey, I noticed that you started talking in your native languages in that episode, weird !

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So death, how's it coming to ya ?

Activision presents : Shakespeare Theater Hero I could so picture the lines coming towards you To be or not to *sproing* that is the question

Yeah, try and apply logic to 8bits of graphic…*You just don't want to see the truth Thunder, you're trying to hide, on every image where you see mario jumping, you'll notice that he has his fist in the air

That, and GDC is over. I did not get a chance to see Video game Rodkin himself.

I'll put a…*wait, already got one. I'll probably bring people with me if that's not a trouble (a french producer and a belgian journalist I met at GDC)?

I is probably interested

Please, give particulars.

YES ! We will make love and poney-on-ice shows with rose petals !

No basically his speech was "Hey you indie developpers, we have a shitload of money, and we're as close as it gets to indie cause we have small teams and cool working ambiance, come work with us"

Ok, so next time, I'll recognize you ! mahahaha

I was applauded by people, were you at this event ? I was at the first row and had not really noticed there were people behind me.

I'll be back in Paris in a bit, wanna get around town sometimes ? Also, I might be travelling for a few days near Cannes, how long are you staying there ?

Liking Glen Beck is ok, as long as you don't believe what he says is ok. Maybe helping him can be done by breaking his TV.

Something : Sid Meier is an intelligent human being but his talk was really not meeting the expectations he explicitly gave.