DISQUS

i.e.

If EVERYONE subscribes to Kawasaki's "Don't Worry, Be Crappy", who's left to advance the art and craft of game development?

All About Games:

If web startups can't support the large teams of highly-specialized roles (game-designer, level-editor, script-writer, AI programmer, etc) that the mainstream games industry is wedded to, but continue to edge mainstream games out in terms of profitability and reduced risk, how are we going to ensure we don't lose that specialist knowledge over the next 5 years?

Bearing in mind that most of the knowledge and experience in professional game design and in online game programming has only in the last 5 years started to really be understood and put to good use.

Also noting that this panel itself doesn't have any mainstream games companies! (*), instead it's: in-game-advertising, tween-social-worlds, facebook-games, etc.

(*) - Matt Rothman comes closest, having left mainstream games development ten years ago.

Update: for the EU stuff, inspired by Jussi's excellent post, I dug out my detailed info on EU investments I'd been tracking, and wrote it up into the same format - http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/09/30/over-...

Enjoy.

(we're going to combine this all into one big spreadsheet soon!)

"This blog is averaging about 1.5 posts a week, which I should probably work on, but it seems enough for at least some group of people to follow it. If I weren't so lazy, I'd try to get at least 3-4 posts up per week, and possibly make them a little shorter. (Or one long one, and 2-3 news-related items)"

Please don't :). Your rate of blogging is about perfect right now.

Not everyone is like this, but I know I'm not alone. e.g. I don't read Raph Koster's blog for one reason: he blogs too often, and I can't afford to devote that much of my time to just one person's opinions.

Instead, I rely on all the other intelligent and knowledgeable people to highlight when he says anything particularly interesting or important, and to draw my intention to it.

I'd rather add his feed to my reader and read every post, but it backs up too fast. The same is true of GigaOM, but I actually filter that through some automated filters (Yahoo Pipes rocks) to wean it down to the topics I'm interested in.