Simonc

Firstly, I work for CMP, but not directly on the conference, apart from the Independent Games Festival, for which I'm Chairman - you may have seen me commenting in the IGF thread earlier this week.

Secondly, I did want people to know that all of these comments will be passed along to the GDC organizers, who, I can assure you, work frickin' hard to make everything as good as they possibly can.

GDC is a massive, incredibly tricky to co-ordinate event, and people worked night and day for the past few months to pull it off. Maybe that's why I'm a little irritated that Vlad has chosen to illustrate his post with a 'Demotivation' picture. If you'd worked with these guys, you'd know that they have absolutely no intention of providing any less than the best quality conf. I'm not saying it was perfect, but I feel you've characterized it in a pretty mean way.

I could rebut a number of the points from anecdotal information, but I suspect it's not my place. I'll pass this on to the GDC Director and see if he can whip something together. But we're listening, and we're trying to make it better, which I would presume is the point of such a post, rather than just being a pointless whine.

Hey Majoon - simonc, IGF Chairman here. Please mail me - chairman at igf dot com - to discuss this further, because quite frankly, we put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into making the awards relevant to all indie developers, and running it fairly, and it genuinely upsets me to see someone being so vicious about the hard work we've put into it. We're hardly inside the belly of the beast, here.