Boing Boing Video Live at GDC: Playfish, Chalice Games, Mockingbird Games, Joystiq, Alice Taylor, Telltale Games
Day 3 of Boing Boing Video's live coverage of the 2009 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco with Killscreen TV + Offworld. We're streaming live video around the clock on our new Ustream channel. Tune in for conversations in our BBV@GDC studio with hosts including Matty Kirsch from Killscreen TV and Xeni from Boing Boing, Jolon Bankey and Daniela Calderon from Mysterious Development, visits from fellow Boing Boing bloggers, and the following special guests today, Thursday March 26, 2009:
Alice Taylor of Channel 4 and Wonderland
John Seggerson of Telltale Games
Derek Johnson of Chalice Games
Troy Gilbert of Mockingbird Games
Sebastien de Halleux of Playfish Games
and our pal Kevin Kelly from Joystiq
For BB + Offworld's complete video and blog coverage of GDC09, visit offworld.com/gdc09.
(Special thanks to our live stream host Ustream TV, to Wayneco Heavy Industries, and to our transportation provider at Virgin America. Video Crew members in the house this week: Jolon Bankey, Wes Varghese, Derek Bledsoe, Xeni Jardin, and Killscreen TV's Matty Kirsch and Allison Kingsley).
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Moderator, Xeni, anyone - can you please get that upstream comments interface off the Boingboing main page? It creates long, painful delays every time I try to visit boingboing. i become bitter, despondent...
Mod, Xeni, anybody- please please please leave the Ustream chat plugin OFF of the front page! It serious lags out my browser, sometimes locking it up! This happens EVERY time I load a page with any Ustream chat plugin on it. If two show up on the same page, my browser just crashes.
Agreed. Chat box should be on ANOTHER page, not the main page!!
The applet on the front page froze/crashed my browser (Firefox 3.0.7) twice when I tried to load the main page. >:(
Third time's the charm, I guess, but I'll probably stay away from boing boing until this has cycled off the front page.
The Ustream chat is temporary while Xeni is at the GDC. If we use it again, we'll try to debug it better. For a quick fix, mark Ustream as untrusted in NoScript, although that will kill the video as well.
Far be it for me to tell you guys how to run your blog, but the main page is a bad place to put a buggy applet. Next time, is it possible to please hide it behind a link using Moveable Type's "Extended Entry" feature? Much obliged.
Agreed with all the above. Just terrible. Bad call.
In addition to the browser lag - which I've also experienced - putting the app on the main page encourages spammers to flood the channel with their blog address. Thus it decreases the utility of both the webpage and the chat app.
Agreed with the above. terrible call. Dilution leading to inept editorial decisions. We expect better of you, and per years of BB postings, expect faster action than mumbling that this is some temporary facility which might be fixed before you next use it. Not happy.
OMG this sucks! Everything sucks! Waaa!
Here is a better way that doesn't kill the video- I installed adblock for firefox, and then enabled tabs on flash. Blocked that specific element on the page. Still can watch videos. Browser killing lag is gone. Yay!
Looks like your cries have been heard. The chat room now appears "after the jump".
Thanks for moving the chat after the jump!
Boingboing staff, why oh why are you posting video feeds that won't play on a 3G iPhone? The chances that I will recheck this item at home at my laptop are about 1%.
You had me, then you lost me.
For shame.
Thanks for moving the chat, very appreciated.