Beer makes even mobile gaming more attractive
by Bonnie Ruberg 
{ Mar 6th 2007 at 9:30PM }
Mobile gaming? Eh. Free beer? Hooray! Thus was born the Mobile Game Innovation Hunt, yesterday's closing event for the first day of GDC's Mobile Games Summit. 15 mobile developers, including Digital Chocolate, got three minutes each to show off their "innovative" designs, which then got ranked by games press judges holding up big, unforgiving score cards.On top of beer, audience members were also handed GDC plastic clappers -- those amazingly annoying, amazingly fun, hand-shaped noise makers that turn a crowd of game developers, educators, and press in business suits into a sea of jerks. When Duke Nukem Mobile took a minute and half just to load, the game nearly got clapped off the stage. Wait, alcohol makes us honest? From here on out, I demand that all review copies of games come with complementary six-packs.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
kinshadow @ Mar 6th 2007 10:02PM
That was probably the most fun I have ever had at an awards show. Congrats to SIL! Cheers!
REUYL @ Mar 6th 2007 10:11PM
Yay, drunk bloggers.
pyroneil @ Mar 6th 2007 10:49PM
The people over at Roosterteeth had an idea like this once, it was called Drunkgamers I think. The idea was to review games while drunk, although mostly an excuse to get drunk and play video games I would assume.
SuMtOnE @ Mar 6th 2007 10:52PM
dang i wish i wus there to chug a beer... i meant to check out the mobile fones =)
tacticality @ Mar 6th 2007 10:59PM
good thing it wasnt duke nukem forever mobile. then it would have started loading years ago, and still wouldnt be done.
Rahul Nirmal @ Mar 6th 2007 11:10PM
Lol, beer kills brain cells. : )
steve17 @ Mar 7th 2007 1:26AM
nice! beer makes everything more attractive.
40 OUNCES TO FREEDOM!!!!!!
brandon @ Mar 7th 2007 2:01AM
Honestly, the title made me think that the article presented some kind of evidence that people were mostly buying mobile games when they were drunk. They're bad enough, I don't see how a sober person could do it.
Izeas GT @ Mar 8th 2007 12:11AM
One Froggy Evening, 4:05 to 4:30.