{"id":199,"date":"2012-01-18T10:01:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T10:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bit-of-alright.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2012-01-18T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T12:55:08","slug":"live-games-indieskies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Live Games: IndieSkies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indieskies.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-200\" src=\"http:\/\/bit-of-alright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/indieskies.png\" alt=\"IndieSkies\" width=\"530\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/indieskies.png 530w, https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/indieskies-300x191.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IndieSkies are a\u00a0fairly new, fairly large <nobr>Derby-based<\/nobr> developer made up of\u00a0<del datetime=\"2012-01-18T12:53:46+00:00\">graduates<\/del> students (edit: They&#8217;ve set up the&nbsp;company in&nbsp;the&nbsp;sandwich year of&nbsp;a&nbsp;four year course, which is an&nbsp;excellent strategy for&nbsp;students to&nbsp;deal with the&nbsp;chronic shortage of&nbsp;industry placements), including programmers from one of\u00a0the\u00a0finest games programming degrees in\u00a0the\u00a0country.<\/p>\n<p>Programmer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/arndreth\">Andrew Roper<\/a> approached me to\u00a0ask if they could run a\u00a0game at\u00a0Bit of\u00a0Alright, and\u00a0we knocked some ideas around. We spoke about a\u00a0game that happened at\u00a0GDC in\u00a02008: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesetwatch.com\/2008\/02\/at_gdc_2008_you_can_destroy_al.php\">Destroy All Developers<\/a>. It was a\u00a0lovely idea with a\u00a0fatal flaw. The\u00a0concept was that, as\u00a0a\u00a0registered player, you&#8217;d be given missions, like &#8220;Get five business cards from European developers&#8221;. It seemed like a\u00a0lovely way to\u00a0get strangers talking, but in\u00a0practice the\u00a0leaderboards were quickly dominated by\u00a0student attendees who had no meetings to\u00a0get to\u00a0and\u00a0no boss to\u00a0answer to\u00a0as\u00a0such. They roamed the\u00a0halls with ridiculous stacks of\u00a0cards, making perfunctory conversation with delegates or\u00a0sometimes just asking them directly for\u00a0their cards. It was needy, twatty, and\u00a0not in\u00a0the\u00a0spirit of\u00a0the\u00a0game.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0told IndieSkies they could run something like it as\u00a0long as\u00a0they bore that in\u00a0mind. It&#8217;s an\u00a0interesting challenge to\u00a0make a\u00a0game like that run nicely, and\u00a0they&#8217;ll be running the\u00a0it several times throughout the\u00a0day. It will center on\u00a0teams of\u00a0spies who have codephrases they need to\u00a0slip into conversation, and\u00a0near the\u00a0end of\u00a0the\u00a0day there will be a\u00a0debrief session to\u00a0discuss how it all went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IndieSkies are a\u00a0fairly new, fairly large Derby-based developer made up of\u00a0graduates students (edit: They&#8217;ve set up the&nbsp;company in&nbsp;the&nbsp;sandwich year of&nbsp;a&nbsp;four year course, which is an&nbsp;excellent strategy for&nbsp;students to&nbsp;deal with the&nbsp;chronic shortage of&nbsp;industry placements), including programmers from one of\u00a0the\u00a0finest games programming degrees in\u00a0the\u00a0country. Programmer Andrew Roper approached me to\u00a0ask if they could run a\u00a0game at\u00a0Bit of\u00a0Alright, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-games","category-speakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}