By Jim Rossignol on January 21st, 2011 at 12:29 pm.
What are you doing next Friday? If you are a UK-based person with interests in the development of indie games then you should almost certainly be attending the second World Of Love event, which is taking place at Conway Hall in London. Speakers include Honeyslug’s Ricky Haggett, Alice Taylor (formerly commission editor for Channel 4′s gaming projects), Nicholas “Games Brief” Lovell, Sophie Houlden, Robert Fearon, and Charlie Knight. And more! We’ll be there too, making faces and trying to remember the secret RPS handshake. Come along! Tickets are on sale now.
Guuh! Ngh!
ShouldbeWorldofLoveCraft!
Sorry, had to let that out.
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Twitter types can pre-event stalk people who will be going here:
http://lanyrd.com/2011/a-winter-world-of-love/
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Man, totally would have come along!
First I thought, ‘Damn, that’s the same day as the protest.’ Then realised the protest was on Saturday, not Friday.
Then I found out you had to book tickets. And then I saw the price of those tickets…
As a student (a poor one at that), I don’t have that kind of money sitting around. =(
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I was all excited because that’s the last day of my exams and I have it off, but £50 for a ticket? I can’t afford that, even for a chance to stalk RPS.
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Also finishing exams just in time and tempted but tickets + train fare to that there London make it a tad expensive. I’m sure this will be well worth it, maybe there needs to be a splinter World of Lesser Love event sometime with a focus on talks for those outside the current indie crop, maybe of a student persuasion. I’m sure some centrally located University ECS department would be interested in hosting the event to avoid venue costs.
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I’m really, really tempted, but I’m poor, and that is not cheap.
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Ah I’d love to be able to go, I’m in london next friday as well but it’s to attend my brothers army passing out parade so I’d struggle to get there early, at £50 its probrably not worth the couple of hours I might get :(
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but but… I live in Scotland… and London is so far away.. and people talk funny and they smell..but I’m fine with all that..
it’s the fact they don’t wear blue face paint I have a problem with!
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Same here.
But since the Global Game Jam begins that Friday, I’m going to take part in the Scottish chapter held in Glesga somewhere.
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It’s in Calledonian uni I think.. been hearing talk bout it… they should really get on having more things in Glasgow.. I mean when I’m not drunk or garfing Glasgow is pretty pish
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I’d love to go to something like this. RPS please could we have a general RPS meeting type thing sometime more for us common non-developer type folk, maybe get a load of indie guys to come along and show off their games, have a few debates, get people to present a few ideas, etc. ?
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I’d go to that, providing the tickets don’t cost more than 20 quid… I mean 50… really?
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There’s a pub meet up thingie tonight, suspect there’ll be more:
http://rockpapershotgun.com/rpsforum/topic.php?id=3759&page=3#post-149583
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On top of rail fares, that’s out of my league at the moment, unfortunately.
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Doesn’t the RPS secret handshake involve the surreptitious exchange of bodily fluids?
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What’s their definition of an indie game ? I’m wondering if it’s a matter of size or financing, or a matter of spirit…
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I am going! And I fully expect to take up Kieron’s suggestion of punching Terry Cavanagh for Veni, Vidi, Vici!
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I pondered that last time but he’s just too nice to do that to :(
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Oof – that’s quite a lot. £73 for a trip to London, no thanks.
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Already booked today off work so I could get a monitor delivered, so I doubt they’d let me have next Friday as well. :(
Guess I’ll go to WoL3.
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I am very strongly considering going. I wanted to participate in global game jam, but my most local chapter haven’t got back to me. £50 something quid for the ticket and £35 for the bus ticket is a bit tricky at the moment though.
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50 QUID!? WHAAAAAAAAAAAT O.O
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Doesn’t the RPS secret handshake involve the surreptitious exchange of a £5 note?
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We wish.
KG
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