Scott Foe recently asked me to speak at Casual Connect 2016. Given that I’ve had some time off, I figured it’d be a great opportunity to do a bit of navel gazing and perhaps impart some wisdom based on my most recent work experiences. After some thought, I asked Ethan to join me as I value his insights and figured it would make for a fun project for us. What I didn’t realize is that the talk was only 25 minutes, which led to some serious editing and a rather brisk flow. However, it all came together pretty well and I’m definitely proud of the result.
You can check out the talk below. It’s a fairly high-level overview with a pretty clickbait-y title. We made the decision to keep it that way as we didn’t know who the audience might be (devs, publishing folks, ad networks, etc).
In the future, I think it might be fun to create a format based solely on the quiz format that was featured on one of our slides. Something for next year, maybe…
Casual Connect is definitely pretty business-focussed. Attendance at the talks seemed on the sparse side as people opted to, uh, connect instead. Still, there was a decent turnout for our talk and I got to see some very good speakers in a more intimate setting. Two of my favorites that I saw:
- Neil Young on “Everything You Know is Wrong” – great talk on why he thinks VR is not ready for prime time and why people are underestimating the mobile market.
- Robin Hunicke on “Creatively Casual Games” – really refreshing approach from the mind that brought you Journey.
Oh, and I also spoke on a panel that was hosted by the inimitable Dean Takahashi. You can check out the transcript of the session here and picture is above..
Here’s a video of my talk with Ethan:
What were your favorite talks? Send me links!