FuturePlay 2008, Book Your Room Early

Future Play 2008 will be held at Toronto's Delta Chelsea Hotel. Reserve your hotel room at the special conference rate today. It is quite the savings vs. the regular rate BTW (rates start at 129 a night)....

Project Management Course For Game Developers at FuturePlay 2008

This is a new expanded version of the popular course taught by Heather Chandler. Last year's reviews of this course were very positive, and this is your chance to take advantage of Heather's experience and expertise.

Please register online as space is limited and walk-in registrations may not be accepted.

This is a three-day workshop. Participants must attend all sessions to receive the completion certificate. Participants will be included in Future Play 2008 keynote presentations, meals and breaks, so you will be able to network in between learning sessions.
Looking for ways to demonstrate your commitment to professional development and education?

The CEU is a nationally recognized uniform unit of measurement in the United States. It is designed to permanently record an individual's non-credit continuing education accomplishments in increments of one CEU per 10 contact hours of instruction. All participants who complete the class will receive a certificate of completion that documents the CEUs earned by taking the course.

T6 Episode 57 - An Interview with Diane Devenyi

Yeah I know, I said that I had interviewed her a few posts back, well, here is the interview. This is a really cool project and I really hope there are some people out there that will share their game stories with Diane.

Music by Battery Life and Jet Pin Army.

Listen and Enjoy

Interview With Eitan Glinert - Accessibility in Games

During the conference I recorded a couple of interviews, so besides the keynotes I got to hang out with some cool people and talk games. One of those cool people was (well is, I am sure he is still cool...) Eitan Glinert. Eitan and others have been working on a game that is equally playable for sighted and visually impaired people. Having low vision myself, this game is pretty interesting to me. The game is called Audiodyssey, it is available now as a free download, check it out.

He is also getting going on a startup in May called Fire Hose VIdeo Games, so if you need a job in May or so, perhaps you should contact Eitan....

Music in this episode is from Uncle Seth, (whose bass player I hung out with at the Toronto Podcast Meetup on Thursday, November 15) and The Mark Harold Band.

Listen Now.

T6 Flashback 12 - Mia Consalvo

I did not get a chance to go to Mia's talk yesterday, as I was off to the Toronto Podcast Meetup (which was cool BTW, thanks to Scarborough Dude, John Meadows, Mark Blevis et al). However, I interviewed Mia on T6, episode 52, so I thought I would post that.

Enjoy.

John Lester's Keynote

John Lester spoke yesterday at lunch (so you will hear some plates etc in the background...)

John is Linden Lab's Boston Operations Director and Academic Program Manager, oh and his SL name is Pathfinder Linden.

His talk was a lot of fun, check it out.

Constance Steinkuehler's Keynote

Constance Steinkuehler opened the show today, WOW. (I mean WOW both as like 'wow' and the gaming way....).

It turns out the playing MMO RPGs helps kids with literacy and scientific reasoning!

Enjoy the talk