GDC Day 1

Wednesday arrived for us with a real hurry. I have to admit that we were all pretty curious exactly how the show would go for us since we will be guests at a booth and running a tech demo based on our stuff done with Multiverse.

We arrived at the show floor to see Judd already there confirming that the server and the connections were rocking and rolling. Also there were various Multiverse staff members as well as members from other demo teams such as Force of Arms (mech mmo), Ardent (Shakespear online), Mermaids and Tim Holtt. Here we got some extra instructions of what to and not to say and some positive words of encouragement.

With that said the show started with a nice easy curve, the doors opened and various people began to flood into the expo hall floor. During the rest of the day Corey Bridges from Multiverse did a great job entertaining and doing a live demostration of the technology to groups of people. For us we got a great reception from people who stopped and loved the work that we had done to the engine, to make things even better throughout the day Bill Turpin introduced us to various movers and shakers looking to invest in some MMO games.

One of the more interesting things that I go to do on Wednesday was a TV interview with MMORPG.com, I was a bit nervous but I think the interview went pretty well as they asked various questions about what we had done here at GDC with Dark Horizons Universe and what our long term goals and plans were for the game in the future.

After the show was done for the day we headed out for some food at Jillians with a few of the Multiverse guys and then headed out to some parties. First up was the Minna Mangle event, which honestly sucked ass. For a casual mixer event the thing failed, it was over crowded and so dammed noisy that you couldn't even hear yourself speak (it also didn't help that there was a lack of bartenders to support the 300+ people that were there). I took a quick look around for the GarageGames employees that were supposed to be at the event, but none where in sight (which was unfortunate since I wanted to talk to some of the programmers from there to get some good information that their PR guys were unable or unwilling to share with me). As such we left that event after a few minutes and then headed off to go see Justin Mette.

Justin was feeling rather under the weather and had come in late this afternoon to the show, so he wasn't able to join us this evening but it was good to catch up and say hello.

Our next stop was going to be the Onling Gaming SIG party, but seeing how freakish the Minna Mangle event was for people we figured we would just head out and find a little bar near the Moscone to have a nightcap before heading to bed for the evening. After such a long day we were all pretty happy to sit our ass down and rest for the remainder of the night.