Jesse Schell gave this presentation at Dice2010 about “Designing Outside the Box” where he talks about how some of the most unexpected gaming success have showed how we have a hunger to get to anything that is real and what the future might possibly look like in the world.
“…we live in a bubble of fake bullshit and we have this hunger to get to anything that is real…”
Quakecon 2009 has come and gone already and I thought I’d post some pictures from the event and post a bit about what all went on this year.
This year Quakecon had over 7,000 visitors and 3,000 people bring their computers to game in the LAN area. Jennifer and I headed down to meet up with our usual buddies to game and have some fun at the event. The very popular and upcoming games BRINK and RAGE were shown to the public for the first time at Quakecon 2009 and I was lucky enough to see both of these presentations and all I will say is those two games are on my get list. We were asked not to take any pictures of either BRINK or RAGE but I tweeted while I was in these presentations and here is what I had to say:
Brink:
When the actual demo started, where one of the game developers takes stage to play the game, the screens on the stage turned to what looked like this very high quality rendered screenshot of the game that publishers use for press material and usually look a bit better than the game because they have been enhanced but then the screen started to move and I along with the rest of the crowd just went awhhh, this game looks insanely amazing!
Tweets
RAGE:
Some random pictures I took:
Panoramic inside the VendorExhibit area:
Panoramic of the Exhibit Stage and the Ventrilo NASCAR Truck and Mustang Shelby GT 500 that was given away:
Nvidia had people come up on stage and do things to get free schwag. These two people had to eat crickets, minos, and worms for some free stuff:
And here are the video clips from Quakecon 2008. Nothing special, just some short clips Jennifer and Ir took here and there at Quakecon.
Intel Extreme Gaming Tour booth
Quakecon 2008 – Intel Extreme Gaming Tour booth from Justin Sanchez on Vimeo.
Crazy flight simulator in the ATI booth
Quakecon 2008 – ATI, Flight Sim booth from Justin Sanchez on Vimeo.
Short clip of the Enemy Territory Quake Wars finals setup and casting.
Quakecon 2008 – ETQW Finals Clip from Justin Sanchez on Vimeo.
Guitar Hero 3 Finals – Third place played Dragon Force – Through The Fire and Flames
Quakecon 2008 – Guitar Hero 3 Finals – Third Place Coop from Justin Sanchez on Vimeo.
Weirdo Jennifer eat uses a fork to cut her pancakes and only eats the top pancake.
Quakecon 2008 – Jennifer uses a knife with pancakes? from Justin Sanchez on Vimeo.
