Blogging the Indie Games Con (IGC) 2004 in Eugene, Oregon

I arrived today in Eugene, Oregon, a few days before the start of the 2004 IndieGamesCon. It looks like it will be a really fun and informative conference. The fact that it is targeted towards independent game developers (i.e. me) means that I am confident it will be well worth it.

The sessions are divided into a few different 'tracks'. The business and hands-on tracks are the ones I am most interested in. Sessions that pique my interest:
  • Starting up a Game Studio
  • Marketing Your Game
  • Effective Developer Agreements
  • Ruthlessly Committed to Fun
  • Surviving as an Indie
  • Remote Team Management
  • Indie PR
Unfortunately some of them conflict, bah! Oh well, life ain't perfect.

I am still a conference newbie. This will be my second one ever (with the 2003 WWDC being the first - and I think this will be quite different). Here are my goals for the con (in no particular order):
  • Meet other people in the indie games business (in real-life form). Hopefully involving some sort of 'networking' of the social kind.
  • Learn helpful stuffs about how to continue the growth of my empire.
  • Show off Lux to everyone possible (I wonder if any media-types are going to be there?).
  • Take some pictures with my new digital camera (weeee!).
There is a Show-Off center with a bunch of computers that anybody can install their games onto for people to test out (I think that's how it works). I hacked up a special IGC build of Lux to do just that. Hopefully its fancy-pants icon will draw some people to it.

Yeah, so the conference doesn't actually start until Friday. Happily my hotel (you could also refer to it as a motel I suppose) comes with free DSL in the room. It also has a fridge, so I went to a grocery mart and bought a bunch of foodstuffs for the week. So far so good. I am lying on the bed right now tapping this out on my laptop. I don't even have a shirt on! What are you wearing?

Posted by dustin on October 7, 2004 with category tags of

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My fall jacket. Sigh...

Sounds like you're going to have fun. Hurray! And learn stuff. Also hurray!

Oh, the owner of the web service thing I posted said he played Lux and found it fantastic. I don't know if he registered or not.
   comment by Mariana (#35) on October 7, 2004

   

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