Serious Games At Sauce Nightclub

The IGDA (International Game Developers Association) meeting Thursday night (12-13-2007) at the SauceRaw nightclub in downtown Albuquerque was fun! It was a great turn out and there were some great Pecha Kucha presentations.

Thanks go out to everyone who made this a successful event. Special thanks to Eric Renz-Whitmore (UNM ARTS Lab) and Mike Wallace (Global Haptics).

I found the Pecha Kucha speed presentation style to be a challenge to present, but it is exciting, informational and entertaining; especially with the occaisional flubs that occur when the presenter tries to keep up with the fast-moving Powerpoint slides.

It was good to see a lot of young entrepeneurs with fresh ideas. The future of America is in the hands of young people like those in attendance. Taking informed risks and passionately pursuing innovative ideas with new technologies is what the IGDA is all about.

Several presentations had the theme of Serious Games. My feeling is that this is a very good thing. I believe that the world is just beginning to see the benefit of the positive application of game technology.

My own presentation "Serious Games With Google Earth" is published in my previous blog posting. It was well received and I had a lot of good discussion later as we enjoyed wine, food and music in the "Raw" side of the nightclub.

Coincidentally, Frank Miller is making a film in downtown Albuquerque called "Game." Imagine that! So while we were discussing game technology, the film crew of Frank Miller's "Game" walks in. I struck up a conversation with a key grip on the film who just finished filming a live 3D film with the latest Red Cameras. We also shared an intense interest in the works of Buckminster Fuller.