Well, this time next week I'll be in Cologne at GDC Europe. I've actually bought a Main Conference Pass as much of the stuff happening in the Independent Games Summit is actually of limited interest to me compared to a lot of the things happening in the mainstream track, and I couldn't quite justify the additional expense of an All Access Pass. About the only thing worthwhile in the Indie Summit would be the networking opportunities, and to be honest that's something for further down the line. I'm much more interested in what some of the foremost voices in the industry have to say, to be honest. I've never been much keen on the ghettoisation of indie developers.
After that, Gamescom. I have a couple of meetings lined up but for the most part I plan on simply enjoying the festival. And I also plan on enjoying Cologne once again - it's a truly beautiful city and I have the massive benefit of a couple of friends there. I'll be travelling with another friend, a fluent German speaker, and we plan on making the most of a week away.
Finally, my colleague Ian is working on a game for the ZX81!
He's been working with a new internal memory expansion for ZX81s, which is enabling us to provide collectors with original ZX81s upgraded to 16k or even 32k of RAM. For this reason, we decided to produce a game which could take full advantage of these memory expansions, to give them more than simply collection value. It's currently untitled, but it's essentially a roguelike adventure game (although Ian is insisting it isn't for some reason, against all evidence to the contrary :D ). We'll be getting a video made later on and I'll link to it here. It's well under development and should be finished quite soon.
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