Christopher Nolan - because game are like movies today. Uhm, okay?
So uh, while Chris Avellone was wasting his time with stupid text heavy RPG, Meggan Scavio was bravely "generally managing" a conference. But they all fade in comparison to J.J. Abrams, who has been "thinking about doing movies out of games".97. Chris Avellone, designer, Obsidian Entertainment
For a while he looked lost in gaming's hinterlands with big, text-heavy RPGs like Planescape: Torment that publishers didn't think people wanted to play. Since then, he's been recruited to a $4m-raising Kickstarter project, which just goes to show what those publishers know.
hriss Avellone : For a while he looked lost in gaming's hinterlands with big, text-heavy RPGs like Planescape: Torment
80. Meggan Scavio, general manager, Game Developers Conference
Forget E3. The really important industry event is GDC, where deals are done and ideas cooked up. Meggan Scavio organises it, keeping it relevant, exciting and for every dev, big and small.
57. J.J. Abrams, director
From discussing collaborating with Valve on a Portal or Half-Life movie to citing being inspired by Limbo and PS3's Journey, J.J. Abrams has been circling gaming for a while. His talent for storytelling could be a very positive influence on the form.
46. Kris Piotrowski, creative director, Capybara Games
Capybara Games is a small dev with a knack for producing polished, beautiful-looking and original games, from the DS's Clash of Heroes to upcoming XBLA title Super Time Force. It's much down to its creative director, who gets into every aspect of production.
He gets a free pass for Commander Keen, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and...that's about all I can think of, but it's still a p. good legacy.Also I wonder how is John Carmack relevant today? I haven't heard shit about him doing anything useful with games, have I missed something?
"Males dressing the way they want". Classical example of feminist being not so socially smart people and just repeating slogans they don't really understand.I don't exactly understand when feminism became "Women are forbidden to be sexy". Isn't that the opposite of what Marilyn Monroe (who was part of the feminist vanguard) taught us? I thought the concept of feminism was exactly giving women the right to be sexy, among several other rights (such as voting and working). Now it's the other way around?
What the fuck is this shit? Following this retarded progression, males dressing the way they want and females covering their sexy parts would technically be the most "correct" and least sexist. Oh wait - that's what we have in Iran.
The basic problem with feminism is that it's full of brainwashed drones and there are only a few of individuals capable of thinking.Feminism on the other hand, is genuinely retarded. Its core problem is that it claims to represent half the population of earth "because they don't know better" while its a corrupt circlejerk of a few select demagogs who draw their support and pray on the troubled and weak.
That word vomit is only a blog post of the kind that just about anyone can make on their site, right? The fact that it is featured on the front page is worrying but since gamasutra is a nest of cuckoos who think microtransactions and mobile gaming is the future I don't think they have much influence over the stuff I care about anyway.http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/Mata...exualpolitical_agenda_of_Fragments_of_Him.php
Holy shit this is so surreal.
I thought games were about shooting space aliens and stuff. The medium has truly matured.:DA few hundred people gathered there to talk about gender, sex, sexuality, representation for people of colour, queer lifestyles, and diversity in games and the gaming industry.
Fixed forThe medium has truly declined.
"This is the first time the GDC Ambassador Award has been given to a woman."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Developers_Choice_Awards#Ambassador_Award
Apparently even that was a lie.2014: Anita Sarkeesian (Feminist Frequency)[7]
2013: Chris Melissinos (Sun Microsystems)
2012: Kenneth Doroshow and Paul M. Smith (the lawyers in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association who argued for the Entertainment Merchants Association in the US Supreme Court.)
2011: Tim Brengle and Ian Mackenzie (Organizers of the Game Developers Conference volunteer program for 20+ years[8])
2010: Jerry Holkins, Mike Krahulik and Robert Khoo
2009: Tommy Tallarico
2008: Jason Della Rocca
2007: George Sanger
2006: Chris Hecker
2005: Sheri Graner Ray
2004: Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk
2003: Doug Church (Eidos Interactive)
2002: Jeff Lander
2001: John Carmack
At least they seem to be staying with the program:
She is author of the book, Gender Inclusive Game Design-Expanding the Market and is the computer game industry’s leading expert on the subject of gender and computer games.
Good picks though, apparently bitching about shit on YouTube is worth a lot more than a lifetime of actual achievement (this is from /v/ I think, the one on the bottom right is the Kinuko gal):