Casuality: The Casual Game Developers' Conference - Day One Prequel
Today is the first day of Casuality, the Casual Game Developers’ Conference being held today through Thursday in Seattle at the Benaroya Hall - home of the Seattle Symphony.
Seattle is a hotbed of casual game development, with publishers and developers such as Microsoft, Real Networks, PopCap, etc… calling the area home.
With revenues from casual games in the millions and development costs an order of magnitude smaller than “traditional” computer games, it’s no wonder that interest in the genre is hotting up.
Anyhow, why am I here?
Well, I’m a game developer (even though I’m working on something in a different space right now) and the conference is local. It was about time I learnt a bit more about the casual games space.
So today started just like normal when I’m attending an event in Seattle. I left way too early - 7am - as I never trust the traffic on the way into town, and arrived very shortly thereafter at 7.30am - a full two hours before the start of the conference.
Sigh.
I bet if I’d left at a sensibly late time I would’ve been stuck in traffic for hours…
So to kill some time I thought I’d find somewhere for breakfast - something I rarely do.
Just down the street I found a place Harried and Hungry, a bit hipper than my normal haunts, but cheap and they served up a great egg and sausage bagel. Shame about the side of avocado - it went untouched, poor thing. That was the “hip” bit. Recommended.
Back to the venue and it is now 8.30am - I register (first in line); pick up the requisite freebie bag and associated crap and boot up the laptop.
Only another hour to kill…
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I was in the same boat. Got to our meeting room (we're doing meetings at the W nearby) at 7:30, first meeting wasn't till 9.
Strange minds think alike, or at least commute similarly :-)