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Name:	Davey Jackson
Date Posted:	Mar 13, 2007
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Hi Everyone-

Back from GDC and boy are we P-U-M-P-E-D UP! Lots and lots of excitement and exciting stuff. First off Great Games Experiment is taking off. People were swarming us to tell us how cool the site is and how developers are loving it.

Next, on Monday, about 4 in the morning, Microsoft released an announcement that Torque X and TGBX would be bundled with all XNA Creators Club Memberships. This is obviously HUGE for GG as it means that Torque will be automatically introduced to the newest game development community, XNA.

We also had a big boost of interest from the announcement that Hot Head Games will be using Torque for the upcoming Penny Arcade Game.

In the GG Booth we were showing: Torque Game Builder with pre-scripted object behaviors assigned via GUI in the TGB Editors, Torque X with TGBX and Tom B's killer Platformer Starter Kit, TGEA integrated with SpeedTreeRT and a very pretty demo of Buccaneer.

While at GDC I had the chance to meet with some of our newest academic partners including DeVry University, The Guildhall at SMU and Rochester Institute of Technollogy.

I had fantastic meetings with new GG business partners Pronto Games and Fuel Industries, and also got to hang out with Torque Community *Superstars* Tom Spilman, Andy Schatzand John Kabus. Andy did a fantastic job as the host of the 2007 IGF awards, even when he was completely upstaged by a marriage proposal in an acceptance speech. (Not to Andy).

Anyways I'll keep this .plan short and let you enjoy the pictures below of GDC sessions, friends and "Networking."

GG Booth Babes

TGB Break Out Challenge

Josh Williams vs. Flash, Java, Shockwave, Playground.

Me and Tetris creator Alexi Pajitnov

Tom B, Me and Dr. Wiley~W00T!

Minna Mingling with Tom Andy and John.

Tom's After Hours Lounge

Dot. Prof. Lin Hua of Tsinghua University in Beijing

Who WAS that bald guy?!

GGers Gone Wild!

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Timothy Aste (Mar 13, 2007 at 20:37 GMT)

Needs more Tim Aste Action Shots (TM).

Eric Elwell (Mar 13, 2007 at 21:02 GMT)

no thank you

Channa Langley (Mar 13, 2007 at 21:23 GMT)

Nice blog Davey looks like it was alot of fun.

@Tim don't worry I have Tim Aste Action Shots to post in my GDC blog along with Dr. Wiley Shots and Tom B etc.
Edited on Mar 13, 2007 23:47 GMT

Timothy Aste (Mar 13, 2007 at 21:35 GMT)

Eric I know where you live

Great plan Davey :)

Vashner (Mar 13, 2007 at 22:03 GMT)

Awesome set of pics.

Charlie Malbaurn (Mar 13, 2007 at 22:08 GMT)

Speaking of plans, are any of the other GG employees going to post anything any time soon?
One of the good things about the GDC in the past was that afterwords, we got our chance to hear about whats going on behind the scenes.
So far, I'm starting to feel neglected ;)

Andy Schatz (Mar 13, 2007 at 22:29 GMT)

Love the Minna Tingle. Love it.

Matthew Langley (Mar 13, 2007 at 23:35 GMT)

@Charlie I think most of us are getting over our hangovers... lol ok maybe not... even though I drank very little I still am not back up to my normal level of energy. GDC is very exhausting. I definitely will be posting a GDC plan coming up with lots of pictures an an overview of what we demo'd there :) (I'm sure others, like nasty Aste) will probably as well.

Drew -Gaiiden- Sikora (Mar 14, 2007 at 01:37 GMT)

Nice pics Davey, it was cool getting to meet you this year

Hey what was this TGB breakout challenge? I missed that...
Edited on Mar 14, 2007 01:38 GMT

Tom Eastman (Eastbeast314) (Mar 14, 2007 at 02:00 GMT)

@ Drew - I have a .plan for that...that's being delayed by mystic forces ;)

And the Platformer looks tremendous! It sure has come a long way from being pink and only ships...

And TX with all Creator's Club Memberships? Holy cow with fries!

Ben Geisler (Mar 14, 2007 at 02:50 GMT)

I agree with your comment Davey- exactly WHO was that bald dude buying drinks all the time.
Wait, why am I asking this question, I really don't care as long as he keeps buying.
Also, how did I become a GG booth babe? heh. awesome
Edited on Mar 14, 2007 02:50 GMT

Tom Spilman (Mar 14, 2007 at 05:05 GMT)

:)
Edited on Mar 14, 2007 05:06 GMT

Davey Jackson (Mar 14, 2007 at 06:35 GMT)

Thanks for all the posotive feedback guys ; ).

I had a great time and some super cool meetings. We've been working on some great new projects and the GDC demos really paid off for us this year. TGEA looks great! We had a buch of non-GG games using Torque on the floor, including: Eric Hartman's "Blockland" at the Intel Booth, "Opera Slinger" and "And Yet it Moves" at the IGF Pavilion, as well as some sample games in the GDC sessions. (NOTE: If you're reading this and showed a Troque Game at GDC please ping me so I can add you to the list).

This is going to be a big year at GG and GDC was only a preview of things to come : ).

Edited on Mar 14, 2007 06:37 GMT

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