I have a problem with action-adventure games…
I like adventure games. I like the investigating, the puzzle solving, the strong story-lines. I like action games and first-person shooters. But recently I found that I have a problem with Nintendo-styletm action-adventure games. This genre includes the recent Zelda, Metroid, and Paper Mario games. I haven't finished any of the recent games in any of those categories. I've gotten to the final boss and lost interest and it's not because they're not good games and that I didn't enjoy the gameplay or the stories. It's because they're too predictable.
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Game Developer’s Conference 2007 Footage
The Game Developer's Conference was pretty insane. We ended up shooting over 15 hours of footage during the week. Most of the time we were running two cameras gathering interviews and b-roll from around the conference. I'm pretty happy with the footage we shot, particularly the shots from the Nintendo and Sony keynotes. We were lucky enough to get seats in the first row for both of the keynotes and I got some really good shots.
GDC Day 2
Today was more of the same, only I got to sleep in and I knew a little bit about what I was doing. We shot more interviews, captured some footage for timelapse shots (we're getting some more of those tomorrow) and got to see some more of the conference.
The Serious Games Summit and the Mobile Games Summit are over and the big events today were the Casual Games Summit and the Indy Games Summit. Yeah, you didn't know that there were so many different summits for videogames, admit it.
The best part of the conference so far has been sneaking around in the expo halls that don't open until tomorrow. The crews are still setting up the booths but since I have a staff badge I can go in and check out everything. Hence the panorama above. I'm looking forward to the next three days when the expo is open and when we get to see the keynotes.
GDC Day 1
One day down, four to go. Today was pretty quiet at the conference, since things were just getting started. Today was focused on just the serious games and mobile/cellphone gaming and the expo hasn't opened yet so most of the attendees are the bigger names right now, but there's not too many people here.
The convention is huge though, I got a chance to walk around the expo hall while they're setting up and it's pretty cool to see all the booth's before anyone else. We have pretty much free reign of the space.
This morning was a bit crazy, getting up at five to be in the city by seven. Then I picked up the equipment I had dropped off the day before and some lights for the green screen. We made it over to the Moscone Center around eight, but we had to wait to get our badges and get the room for the shoot, etc.
The first room we had had a squeaky noise coming from the air conditioning so there was no way we could shoot the interviews in there due to the noise. We were going to cancel all the green screen interviews for the day, but we got moved to another room and were able to salvage some of the time.
I was roaming around the North and West convention halls getting interviews of people around the conference. My feet are tired and it's the first day. But it's looking like the convention is going to be awesome on wednesday once everything starts to pick up.
Game Developer’s Conference is next week
The Game Developer's Conference. All the biggest names in the video game industry get together to show off their new stuff, make deals, and celebrate the year. And now that E3 is no longer E3, this is the big conference for the year. And the Game Developer's Conference is also going to be the biggest gig of my film/video career. (more…)