It was only Thursday before last that I found out I was heading to Austin for the Austin Game Developers Conference and some Tabula Rasa themed events. Since then I’ve taken a tonne of pictures, hung out with some industry legends, had a childhood dream come true, inadvertantly LARPed with Richard Garriott, and taken a metric asstonne of pictures. Here’s a rundown of what I did on my trip to the Texas state capitol. Obligatory Picture Of A Bag Morhaime On Taking Over The World Game Writing Meets Star Trek In The Beginning Of AGDC Flight of Anti-Gravity Videos From Beyond Gravity Zero G Souvenirs Liveblogging The Dave Perry Q&A Enrolling At Logos Academy Logos Academy Swag Bag Are Microtransactions The Future of MMO Games? The Austin GDC Exhibit Hall In Pictures Post AGDC Slurpee Run More »
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In my defence, I was on some very nice anti-motion sickness drugs and being crushed by tremendous g-forces, so me calling Crecente a fucker should be in no way take away from my deep love for the man. It’s very hard to keep your camera steady once weightlessness kicks in, so mind the spinning. Perhaps I should have issued you guys those meds. Hit the jump for a peek at Super Garriott! More »
When I was a child, all of my friends wanted to grow up to be astronauts. As the world gets smaller and smaller thanks to the internet and advances in communication, outer space is one of the few places that still hold the kind of fascinating mystery that young people used to find in far-away places on our own planet. As a science fiction geek, every now and then I still entertain the fantasy that I will one day journey into the stars to float weightless in a space station somewhere, so when NCsoft offered me the chance to go on a Zero G flight, I naturally jumped at the chance. More than a few childhood dreams were fulfilled this day as Richard Garriott led a group of game industry press and executives on a technological flight of fantasy.
See those happy, healthy, pretty people? They are enjoying the Zero G experience in a healthy and pretty fashion. I am showing you this so you can come back to this picture later and compare it with my own experience. You see, I have been invited to participate in a Zero G flight this morning as part of a giveaway during last night’s Tabula Rasa event and I guarantee you I will look nothing like these people as the parabolic manoeuvre makes me weightless for 30 seconds (no mean feat). What will I look like? I am imagining vomit floating gracefully through the air as Swan Lake plays in the background. Stay tuned for more details later today, and wish me luck! More »
