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Indies the Biggest Stars At Game Developers Conference

Posted by samzenpus on from the everyone-loves-an-underdog dept.

RougeFemme writes "Indies beat out mainstream studios for most of the Game Developers Choice Awards. FTL: Faster Than Light, an independent game financed by a Kickstarter campaign, won the award for Best Debut. Because of the growing success of the indies, Eric Zimmerman, game designer and instructor at the NYU Game Center, is canceling the Game Design Challenge that he's held at the conference for the last 10 years. 'The idea of doing strange, bizarre, experimental games is no longer strange, bizarre or experimental.'"

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  1. Google Glasses: Concentration Camp For The Mind? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One of the early tests of this RFID b.s. is where a student protested in wearing an RFID 'badge'. If I recall, in the end the student was forced to wear it. These small steps in mandatory RFID and the love of using smartphones for payments and more will drive us to the MARK OF THE BEAST WHICH YOU MUST NOT TAKE!

    IMO Google Glass will be the first step in techie peer pressure. If everyone has one, why don't you? How many people will look at you every day as they have the devices and you don't and upload your photo to a Facebook like data base.

    Just like in the episode of Star Trek TNG : "The Game", I believe there will be a market for 'fake' Google Glasses to blend in without participating. But Google could be ready for that and it could eventually lead to mesh computing and auto verification/pings between Google Glass users to ensure they are all 'in the machine'.