Unknown Worlds Update - Xfire game development live chat

Max

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locallyunscene

Cool, a reason to install X-Fire.

c0ke

no offense, but WHY THE HELL XFIRE?

its a piece of... i'd favor IRC

but still a nice step..

WatchMaker

I'll be listening.

tigersmith

Cant wait to to see the chat ill be excited, it will be a good Monday for me!

BCSeph

hooray xfire.

SparkTR

Now I've got something to look forward to. I love XFire.

Angelusz

Just another totally unneccesary chat program. But hey, it's NS development, who cares! Will there be a text version, afterwards?

Thansal

heh, not to shabby line up.

Charlie, Max, and the head of AI for Force Unleashed <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

MasterPTG

For the only time in my life, I have a reason to install XFire. Afterwards, bye-bye XFire =D.

tigersmith

not really, i think its great

Svenpa

I'd definitively be there to listen, unless it's early morning GMT+1.

CoolCookieCooks

will there be a recording we can listen to later on?

Max

I'm pretty sure the chat is going to be text only. Also as part of this event Charlie and I are doing "day in the life" type blogs where we log every hour what we're up to, giving a little insight into the thrilling world of making games (although arguably our current situation is quite different than what goes on at most companies). I can give you a little sneak peek -- it's not that thrilling. But hopefully it's interesting!

WatchMaker

Sounds good to me, lol.

CoolCookieCooks

Ohh ok its a text thing, didnt realise. (i quickly sweeped over the news post whilst talking to someone)

TychoCelchuuu

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Man, if you call XFire "just another totally unneccesary chat program" then you've never used it. That's like calling Steam "just another totally unneccesary download manager." Sure, it'll grab files for you, but it's so much more than that. In fact, XFire will grab files too <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

Iced_Eagle

Sweet.

Hopefully there will be a transcript.

Angelusz

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Alright, I'll rephrase, "In my opinion, X-fire is just another, to me totally unneccesary chat program/game manager". I can tell you why, but this is not the place to do that.

I thought it would be audio, too, but reading the newspost again, that was just an assumption, it doesn't state what kind of chat it will be. Text is good, text has transcripts ^^

locallyunscene

So since I wasn't one of "the Chosen" I'd like to know when/where the transcript will be posted.

WatchMaker

It's already been posted.

TychoCelchuuu

<a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=102570&view=findpost&p=1648804" target="_blank">It can be found here</a>.

Flayra

Here's a nicer Word .doc version of the transcript (provided by xfire).

[attachment=35729:Careers_...0__Clean.doc]

TychoCelchuuu

Ahah wow, that's definitely much nicer. Those XFire chaps are quite splendid, if I do say so myself.

c0ke

i didnt see the transcript aswell, thanks for asking <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

CanadianWolverine

I was getting near the end of the transcript (which is much easier to read in the word doc, as it had text wrap for me) and something Charlie commented on really caught my eye:

<b>"Not for a specific age group necessarily, but you definitely have to think about your target player. I am investigating use of "personas" in games now (Cooper Institute) that seems to hold a lot of promise as a methodology."</b>

I ran a search for this and I hope I found what he is refering to. Even if this isn't exactly it, it is a really interesting read:

<a href="http://www.uiaccess.com/accessucd/resources.html" target="_blank">
Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design</a>

locallyunscene

Thanks for that link <b>CanadianWolverine</b>. There's a lot of good stuff on there.