Comments on: 50 things I never need to hear at another conference

By: Michelle Hinn

Michelle Hinn — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:23:09 +0000

Nissa just sent this to me — Genius, Joe!!!

By: pooky

pooky — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:23:26 +0000

LOL, you forgot

“Less is more”

“Guitar Hero should have done…”

By: Gavin Longhurst

Gavin Longhurst — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:57:47 +0000

Comedy gold.

By: Sanya Weathers

Sanya Weathers — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:35:17 +0000

I haven’t been to GDCA in two years for family reasons, and so I feel vaguely comforted to know I didn’t miss anything.

By: Nathan F

Nathan F — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:20:41 +0000

I have a similar list I started while bored at a recent conference session. I am thinking about creating a Bingo game with these anecdotes as squares. When I fill in a row and get a Bingo I will leave the session.

By: Jen Steele

Jen Steele — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:15:26 +0000

Hey Joe, Your list is pretty entertaining. I’m looking forward to seeing your topic proposals during next year’s call for submissions.

Jen Steele
Content Manager-GDC Austin

By: Halsted M. Larsson

Halsted M. Larsson — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:39:48 +0000

A couple crucial ones:

* Nintendo and the wii saved gaming by making gaming for everyone
* It is impossible to sell a core gamer title to the Wii audience

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:01:14 +0000

I don’t believe that the fact that I heard just about everything on my list at least once during the conference makes AGDC useless. It just means that a guy who has worked on three different MMO projects and launched one of them is maybe not the target audience of most of these talks.

@Richard: I know there are actually 8 types only because I read your book. It seems you only get to launch a player hashing function once.

@John: MMOs themselves have been a big disruptive force in the larger game industry, but I agree that there hasn’t been much disruption in the MMO space. I don’t think that means we’re bad at building MMOs so much as it means that there is now an MMO formula that works pretty well.

@Sheri: Asking dumb questions is kind of what new people are FOR. That they are coming to AGDC to ask them is a good thing because they are going to come away with the tools to avoid many potential traps. Not all the traps, of course, which is why we still see rocky launches. Unfortunately the most important lesson of all is “everything is harder than you think it will be” and that’s one you have to learn through experience.

By: Wes

Wes — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:21:55 +0000

Nice, your post made it to the front page of hacker news! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=834698

By: Steph

Steph — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:47:49 +0000

It’s amazing how true 37 & 38 are (amongst all the others). Many times people will say contrarian “knowns”.

But seriously, if everyone listened to what everyone else said, there would never be any innovation.

Great post. It must have been fun coming up with all those known knowns