Yahtzee On Net Fame

Russ Pitts of the Escapist interviews various Internet Youtube supa-dupa-stars on their awesomeosity. While The Guild's Sandeep Parikh is chatted with it's (perhaps predictably) Zero Punctuation's Yahtzee who gets centre-stage. But predictably doesn't mean undeservedly, and I was amused to see a little more about his reception at GDC this year, which I'd already heard about in snippets delivered by GDC-veterans.

"...Croshaw did have his moments of celebriphobia at this year's GDC, where even a short trip down the hall inevitably resulted in more than a few handshakes and requests for autographs. One woman had been clandestinely following him around all week, finally accosting him on his way to the airport to show him her sketchbook. He had a beguiling manner about him, she said, showing him how she'd captured the jaunty tilt of his hat with pencil and ink. The experience was jarring."

What Yahtzee does next is the interesting one. The smart money, I suspect, is on him ending up doing the Erik and Chet Old Man Murray thing and turning developer love into being a lovely developer. In a more traditional mainstream way than his indie stuff, obv.