One of the fathers of video gaming - and current CEO of uWink - Nolan Bushnell is appearing at what's sure to be a fascinating Q&A session at the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) on March 19th. The session is being chaired by former Bullfrog man, gaming historian, and SPOnG mascot, Andy Nutall.
In case you really don't know who Nolan Bushnell is - he formed Atari and ensured that Pong made it to Andy Capp's Tavern... from whence it became legend.
The event is being carried out in association with Game Based Learning at 6pm, Thursday 19 March at BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LN.
If you want to go and you are not a BAFTA member, it will cost you £7.50 (but you also get to go to the champagne reception) and we'll see you there.
If, however, you can't make it to London, you can still ask Nolan Bushnell a question that could be relayed to him by Andy at the event. Enter you witty, deep and clever questions at this site.
You can find more about the event here.
In case you really don't know who Nolan Bushnell is - he formed Atari and ensured that Pong made it to Andy Capp's Tavern... from whence it became legend.
The event is being carried out in association with Game Based Learning at 6pm, Thursday 19 March at BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LN.
If you want to go and you are not a BAFTA member, it will cost you £7.50 (but you also get to go to the champagne reception) and we'll see you there.
If, however, you can't make it to London, you can still ask Nolan Bushnell a question that could be relayed to him by Andy at the event. Enter you witty, deep and clever questions at this site.
You can find more about the event here.
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deleted 9 Mar 2009 11:08
1/5
Dear Nolan,
When are you going to move out, you are a big boy now and sitting in your dim lit bedroom writing silly little games for your own pleasure should now be stopped, you need a girlfreind and in fact your aunty joyce mentioned a nice girl at the local bingo hall, maybe you could go meet her, anyway dont forget to put the bins out.
Love Mum x
When are you going to move out, you are a big boy now and sitting in your dim lit bedroom writing silly little games for your own pleasure should now be stopped, you need a girlfreind and in fact your aunty joyce mentioned a nice girl at the local bingo hall, maybe you could go meet her, anyway dont forget to put the bins out.
Love Mum x
Joji 9 Mar 2009 13:30
2/5
My questions:
What do you think of the rise of indie game development on XNA, PSN, iPhone (especially the latter?
If you were to give three pieces of advice, to any indie start up developer out there, what would you say?
Has he any new games in the pipeline?
Lastly, piracy indirectly/partially helped the industry thrive to a degree, but will it be the red button to its downfall, like many think?
What do you think of the rise of indie game development on XNA, PSN, iPhone (especially the latter?
If you were to give three pieces of advice, to any indie start up developer out there, what would you say?
Has he any new games in the pipeline?
Lastly, piracy indirectly/partially helped the industry thrive to a degree, but will it be the red button to its downfall, like many think?
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;) 10 Mar 2009 04:26
3/5
haritori wrote:
Dear Nolan,
When are you going to move out, you are a big boy now and sitting in your dim lit bedroom writing silly little games for your own pleasure should now be stopped, you need a girlfreind and in fact your aunty joyce mentioned a nice girl at the local bingo hall, maybe you could go meet her, anyway dont forget to put the bins out.
Love Mum x
When are you going to move out, you are a big boy now and sitting in your dim lit bedroom writing silly little games for your own pleasure should now be stopped, you need a girlfreind and in fact your aunty joyce mentioned a nice girl at the local bingo hall, maybe you could go meet her, anyway dont forget to put the bins out.
Love Mum x
Question, what do you think of Haritori who uses Mr T as a avatar and still plays games with himself? ;)
way 10 Mar 2009 04:43
4/5
I agree with Joji's Questions, plus what do your think of the possibility of using a industry wide cross platform development game VOS system to save money and time publishing games.
The other question, is what about such a system for a instant on access, instant install, no disk required to play each time, with copy protection PC game system form factor sub specification. That this system could work with and without windows. Even if this system was instead based on a very small basic Linux form factor that was tailored towards game hardware and performance?
Do you think that Sony, 360 and Nintendo are restricting the industry (apart from costing consumers more money) and a PC game console specification like above, that can be worked into every PC is a better, more open and cheaper option for development (and consumers)?
The other question, is what about such a system for a instant on access, instant install, no disk required to play each time, with copy protection PC game system form factor sub specification. That this system could work with and without windows. Even if this system was instead based on a very small basic Linux form factor that was tailored towards game hardware and performance?
Do you think that Sony, 360 and Nintendo are restricting the industry (apart from costing consumers more money) and a PC game console specification like above, that can be worked into every PC is a better, more open and cheaper option for development (and consumers)?
Joji wrote:
My questions:
What do you think of the rise of Indie game development on XNA, PSN, iPhone (especially the latter?
If you were to give three pieces of advice, to any indie start up developer out there, what would you say?
Has he any new games in the pipeline?
Lastly, piracy indirectly/partially helped the industry thrive to a degree, but will it be the red button to its downfall, like many think?
What do you think of the rise of Indie game development on XNA, PSN, iPhone (especially the latter?
If you were to give three pieces of advice, to any indie start up developer out there, what would you say?
Has he any new games in the pipeline?
Lastly, piracy indirectly/partially helped the industry thrive to a degree, but will it be the red button to its downfall, like many think?
W 25 Mar 2009 11:47
5/5
so what was asked?