First I want to wish everyone happy holidays and hope everyone has had a great one. I also ran across a cool holiday themed flash game I thought I’d share as well. It’s called Hand Bell Heroes and is basically a rhythm game where you play Christmas jingles with hand bells similar to Guitar Hero. Check it out it’s a pretty nice little holiday treat.
Happy Holidays from Zen and Games!
Last week the Independent Game Conference was held in Austin, Texas. Last year I attended the same event and was able to get a lot out of some of the sessions so since I’m in Austin I made sure to attend the event this year as well. Once again several of the sessions were very informative and over the next week or so I’ll be transcribing my notes about them.
Sessions were held in two tracks, business and technology. I attended sessions of both tracks and will write my impressions on them soon. There was also a very interesting keynote by Richard Garriott on game design and research. The coolest part of the conference, however, was the game festival night where attendees can show off the games they’ve worked on and everyone can check it out. I was helping show Starport but I also checked out lots of cool games which I’ll probably be talking about here as well.
I attended the event last year as well, before I started this site, and I believe somewhere I have my notes from then so I’ll try to find them and write about some of those sessions as well because there were also some very good sessions last year. So stay tuned in the coming week or two I’ll post about the talks that were given and some of the games shown, I’ll update this post with links to them as I write them as well.
