Completely forgot to mention this. The Thinkosium – sold out within hours and we’ve just had the final guest confirm, who’s a splendid addition – is obviously the biggie, but there’s more to RPS and the London Games Fringe than that. I’m actually speaking at Playful, which is a day long event on the 31st of October where various chaps and chapesses have a good old ramble. And there’s a video of me yabbering beneath the cut about what I plan to speak about…
Kieron Gillen talks Playful:Game Design London from Toby Barnes on Vimeo.
Also, anyone who fancies having a good old stalk can hyper-analyse what books I’ve got on my shelves.
Tickets are twenty-five quid a shot and here’s the full list of speakers…
09:30 Intro: Toby Barnes (Pixel-Lab)
09:40 James Wallis (Spaaace)
10:00 Roo Reynolds (BBC)
10:20 Tanya Kryzwinska (Brunel University)
10:40 Eric Clough (212box)
11:00 Break
11:20 Adrian & Dan Hon (six to start)
11:40 Chris Delay (Introversion)
12:00 David G. Surman
12:20 Jolyon Webb (Blitz)
12:40 Electroplankton Orchestra
13:15 Alex Fleetwood (Sandpit / Hide and Seek Festival)
13:35 Tom Armitage (Headshift)
13:55 Matthew Irvine Brown (Last.fm)
14:15 Eric Zimmerman (Game lab)
14:40 Break
15:10 Matt Biddulph (Dopplr)
15:30 Iain Tate (poke London)
15:50 Kars Alfrink (leapfrog.nl)
16:10 Kieron Gillen
So lots of terribly clever people, plus me. Man!
I don’t think ‘yabbering’ quite covers it… ;)
A-hoo-hee-hee.
Damn you and you philosophical gaming discussions! Why must you hold them when us decent people have to work?
McNae’s Essential Law for Journalists. Actually, considering the constant confusion between slander and libel on RPS podcasts, unlikely.
That bookshelf is rather tidy.
Do you not read?
You haven’t seen the rest of the house.
KG
Conway Hall is a really nice place, by the way. It’s an old partly wood-pannelled hall in the corner of a Bloomsbury square. It has the air of the Bloomsbury set / William Morris / Workers’ Co-operatives. Lots of good stuff, including echoey gigs, happen there.
Note that Kieron has been scheduled as the last speaker and thus doesn’t have a time limit on his speech. I’m sure that wasn’t deliberate or anything.
“Hello I’m Kieron Gillen and I SLAM CUPS!”
Kieron slams *everything*. I’m not even joking.
That you’re last on means that they either think you’re the best, to keep people sticking around to the end, or that you are likely to be so drunk by that point that you provide Kerry Katona-like entertainment.
You talk too quietly Mr Gillen! But I suppose, London to Edinburgh is a way to shout. Consider yourself forgiven this time. I’d like to go but really couldn’t, in any way. At all.
Moderately related – shiny previews! Mmm.
I really hope this event will be videotaped and internet-ized.
I was going to ask who “Break” was, then I realized that I’m an idiot.
And all the while the evil, red Darwinian Angel of Death hung above him.
Are you going to tell who these new confirmed guests for the thinkosium are? Or have you already said somewhere I’ve not noticed?
When it’s sold out, why mention it and spoil the lovely surprise?
KG
We will be plying KG with vodka all day, the sun will be down, it is 31st October, and his true face will be revealed.