I had a lot of fun listening to and viewing Jonathan Blow’s talk from Montreal International Game Summit 2008. I then went on to listen/watch his previous year’s talk. I find that — being currently in limbo in between jobs — these talks are getting me really excited and inspired about game design again and I am getting more eager to start on my next project.
Since I’ve only had the time to focus on my work for a while I might have missed some cool stuff. Do you know any inspiring or interesting talks from the last one or two years that have both slides and audio? (Or alternatively perhaps some thought-provoking blog posts on the topic of game design?) If so, let me know, and I’d be very grateful for your tip! Brains hungry.
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They’re not really Games related (although somewhere on there there could be one I guess) but ted.com is full of fascinating talks on some amazing things..as I say, not that games related I’m afraid..still good for the brain though!
Glennw
December 10th, 2008
Do you have the links to the Jonathan Blow talks?
Erkki Lindpere
December 10th, 2008
See my previous post for a link to his latest one. Last year’s is somewhere on that same blog.
Marek
December 10th, 2008
Glennw: ah yes, TED is excellent. Been subscribed to their podcast almost since they started it and it’s made me into a huge TED fanboy.
Marek
December 10th, 2008
Anything by Will Wright is automatically awesome. Also Keita Takahashi’s first talk at GDC forever ago was incredibly cool.
Mo
December 10th, 2008