Comments on: Er… We’re A Bit Late: Nottingham GameCity

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:13:37 +0000

Oh yeah, nice Munchkin namedrop! Didn’t realise anyone else played that.

By: Ian (the two Ians)

Ian (the two Ians) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:56:46 +0000

Just got back from gamecity and It was fantastic! I have to say though – it was so under attended! alot of the evening events and parties got to awkwardly low numbers, the lowest point being 15 of us in front of a stage trying to support a band while our fellow nerds laze around the room unwilling to rock out :(

but! It was still too much fun and the speakers where great! Highlights for me being One Life Left, Braben, the little big planet talk and the curry sessions.

By: Jeeva

Jeeva — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:04:22 +0000

Yeah, I’ve been hanging about GC for all three days, there’s been some really fun stuff- notably the excellent little party last night, with Resident Evil 5, Rock Band crowd based entertainment and random other stuff. -Oh, and Jonathon Coulton, and Paul and Storm. Glee! I have pictures.

-Other things were good too, including the previously mentioned Zombie gathering, again with JoCo, a fun little Goldeneye talk with David Doak and Martin Hollis, some stuff about Geometry Wars, and the somewhat-misreported talk with David Jaffe.

…and the Curry Sessions #1, I found rather funny and quite interesting. Please congratulate [the speaker] on his amusing use of slides. =)

By: Butler`

Butler` — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:32:59 +0000

Charlie, they were practicing the moves for the big Thriller finale (for the world record).

By: Jochen Scheisse

Jochen Scheisse — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:49:50 +0000

By the way, try out: “Aye, dark Overlord!”

It’s a pretty brilliant card game dealing with blaming one of the evil minions for the failed mission. You have to be in the mood though, it’s best played with role players.

By: KBKarma

KBKarma — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:45:33 +0000

Munchkin will make the plane journey better, though. Remember: you only need to discard when you’re over five AND YOUR OPPONENT DOESN’T NOTICE.

Shame I can’t go to this GameCity thing. It would cost too much to get over there, get back and find accomodation. Also, it’s 6pm now.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:25:43 +0000

GameCity was great fun. 20 quid for the ticket, some inciteful stuff.

Funny seeing you post here Charlie, I’m downstairs cooking some food in our wonderful student accommodation.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:57:56 +0000

@ Butler
Why weren’t they dancing to the actual Thriller song? They were doing the dance.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:56:40 +0000

Rock City is amazing. I’m actually in Nottingham doing a games course at Trent. Haven’t been to any of the events, ‘cept for the zombie thing. Only thing I would like to do is the Mogal-e-Azam stuff coz the food there is amazing!

By: Butler`

Butler` — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:43:41 +0000

Yeah I was at the mode7 talk James G, was alright.

Highlight of the event was last night, as I was walking through the city to go buy Fallout 3, I came accross 1-2k people dressed as zombies synchronized dancing to Rihanna – Disturbia and the Ghostbusters theme :p

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:50:35 +0000

I saw the sackboy’s head covering the “G” and skimming your strapline, instantly thought it said “LameCity”. Although it looks like quite a good games-slash-Lego festival.

By: James G

James G — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:23:20 +0000

A friend of mine was speaking at one of the sessions on Thursday, about why Indie developers stick at it despite all the difficulties. (Curry Sessions #1 in case anyone was arround to see him) . He works for mode7 games, although I haven’t actually got arround to checking any of their stuff out yet, so can’t comment on the games themselves.
http://www.mode7games.com/content/