Paranoid Ramblings

Nov 23

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Nov 21

Still wondering what The Birds would have been like had it starred Suzanne Pleshette. She wasn’t your typical “Hitchcock woman”, but that’s what would have made it interesting. At least we got the delightful Annie Hayworth.

Nov 18

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Nov 08

Next week at the Montreal International Game Summit I’ll have the pleasure of introducing David Sears’ production keynote “Desade, Machiavelli, and Me.” He will be exploring some of the working situations at game development shops he and I are both intimately familiar with.

Even cooler, David’s written up some study materials that will clue you in on where he’s going with what is sure to be a barn burner of a talk.

http://www.sofstudios.com/psyop/5/machiavelli-the-marquis-de-sade-and-me/

Now, you wouldn’t want to miss that.

Nov 04

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Nov 01

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Oct 29

Last year’s Montreal International Game Summit Brain Dump was a raucous good time – so much so that we’re doing it again! In two weeks (Wednesday, November 14th, 5:15 PM to be specific), MIGS Brain Dump 2012 will be the closing keynote for the conference, and the subject is “Inventing the Future.” I’m glad to host our all-star lineup of brainy participants, each doing 5-minute talks where they tell us what’s to come in the world of game development. Who knows, a few of them may even be right. And our speakers are:

Stephanie Bouchard – Game Designer at THQ MTL, a specialist on unique user-input devices to connect humans and machines.
Alex Hutchinson: Creative Director at Ubisoft MTL, who just shipped Assassin’s Creed III
Jonathan Jacques-Belletête: Of Eidos MTL, most recently Art Director on Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Jonathan Morin: Creative Director at Ubisoft MTL, currently working on the hotly anticipated game Watch_Dogs
Bernard Perron – Professor of video game studies at Universite de Montreal and perhaps the biggest horror game fan I know.
Lee Sheldon –Co-Director of the Games Simulation Arts and Sciences program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, also designer/writer of many an adventure game, also doing the design keynote at the conference.
Cord Smith – Director of Marketing at Square Enix, also speaking at the summit about rebooting the Hitman franchise.
Tim Sweeney – CTO of Epic Games, chief architect of the Unreal Engine, also giving the main conference keynote.

Hope to see you there.

Oct 27

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About time I saw this movie.

Oct 26

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