Opening Keynote - by Yoichi Wada

It was cool to hear from the CEO of Square Enix. Thats most of what could be said of his keynote. Most people I have spoken to about had less than stellar feelings about it afterwards. We can probably all agree that the translation was a problem with it. At one point Wada-san said (through the translator), "Online is so important, I'm not going to talk about it." I took him to mean that he was not going to talk about it separately but it was still weird to hear.

Solving the Networked Physics Puzzle - by Glenn Fielder

I was very excited about this talk and I was not alone. The room was packed, though the rooms were smaller than last years. People stood. Then we watched Glenn's demo fail to start and through errors since it didn't want to go through the second monitor ... strange. He canceled after that happened since he did not slides, but fortunately MIGS later rescheduled it to the last time-slot of the day.

Skipping along

Indie in 2D - by Nathan Vella

President and Co-founder of Nathan Vella told us among things how to hire the best artists at an indie company: Have your other artists recommend people, they will recommend the best. One of my favorite talks.

Running out of time, so I'll post more later.