Yeah, we dont want this to be a fluff panel, but we want to address an audience of non-games people (Smithsonian types) and those who are gamers (but more from a creative/GDC-like perspective).
Garfield and MtG: if game designers have a canon, Mario 64 and MtG are the equivalent of the Iliad and the Aeneid, amazingly even more so than Go - at least from my unscientific observations.
Yah, but personally, I think Church's contributions -- first 1st person 2.5D game (Underworld before Wolfenstein), first true 3D first person game (System Shock, 13 months b4 Quake) and Thief (pioneered stealth game play) give him content cred (vs. sales cred). And SS and Thief helped pioneer 'emergent gameplay'. He's a great programmer and designer, and often Warren Spector gets (unwilling) cred for projects Doug has led...
Hopefully I can persuade Sid to come and say hi.
I may see if I can grab Will and someone else for another panel, if this one's well-received.
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Hey, I moderated that panel, and the 1up piece was typical fanboy journalism. Too bad cos Churh and Garfield are pretty brilliant, accomplished guys.
Miyamoto-sama will get much props from me directly, as opposed to an edited bio. :-D
Yeah, we dont want this to be a fluff panel, but we want to address an audience of non-games people (Smithsonian types) and those who are gamers (but more from a creative/GDC-like perspective). Garfield and MtG: if game designers have a canon, Mario 64 and MtG are the equivalent of the Iliad and the Aeneid, amazingly even more so than Go - at least from my unscientific observations.
Yah, but personally, I think Church's contributions -- first 1st person 2.5D game (Underworld before Wolfenstein), first true 3D first person game (System Shock, 13 months b4 Quake) and Thief (pioneered stealth game play) give him content cred (vs. sales cred). And SS and Thief helped pioneer 'emergent gameplay'. He's a great programmer and designer, and often Warren Spector gets (unwilling) cred for projects Doug has led... Hopefully I can persuade Sid to come and say hi. I may see if I can grab Will and someone else for another panel, if this one's well-received.