Boing Boing Video + Offworld Live @GDC: Keita Takahashi on Noby Noby, Konami's Hideo Kojima, Jane McGonigal, Games + Music, and more!
Today is the final day 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, visits from fellow Boing Boing bloggers, and the following special guests today, Friday March 27, 2009, the final day of GDC:
* Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari Damacy, talking about his most recent game, Noby Noby Boy (note: previously recorded on-site at GDC)
* A planned interview nearby with Hideo Kojima, CEO of Konami. He's the creator of the recently released Metal Gear Solid Touch game for the iPod touch and iPhone (it's currently available on the Apple App Store). He's doing a talk at 3pm at the San Francisco Apple Store, if you're in SF, you should try to go!
* In-studio visit by game developer and researcher Jane McGonigal, whose amazing GDC talk Cory blogged about here.
* Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music, talking about music and video games, and hopefully demoing some music-making gizmos!
* Vlad Micu, "Videogame Visionary" from the Netherlands
* Alice Taylor, game researcher, blogger, and developer, of Wonderland and Channel 4
* Tracy Fullerton of the USC Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab
For BB Video + Offworld's complete video and blog coverage of GDC09, visit offworld.com/gdc09.
Chat room after the jump, or you can hop directly to our Ustream page to view chat + video stream side by side.
(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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The generative music interview was excellent, (I missed their names, who were they again?) the chat produced some great questions. Making people dance for my amusement is also fun :) Looking forward to seeing more of this format in the future.
I just wanted to say thanks to Xeni, Matt, Derek, all the other Boing Boing and Killscreen TV people, and the other people (i.e. interviewees, Marque Cornblatt, ) who gave us such great interviews, mad Guitar Hero skills, and an overall good time. Many great questions I had not even thought of before were answered.
I hope this live feature happens more often, unless it was too much of a hassle for you guys to create.
Once again, Thanks.
oh but it definately has to happen more often - it just has to - i wanna hang out with Xeni some more (and everybody else... i guess...)