Will Wright’s Keynote
Will Wright’s Keynote
As always, Will Wright gave a highly entertaining and informative presentation. And, as always, it’s damn hard to summarize.
So I won’t. You missed out. Ha!
OK OK, I’ll take pity on you. Some. Slackers. You should get to GDC sometime, yourself.
Will gave two talks, actually. One on how he conducts research for his games, and another on the fundamentals of astrobiology. He would jump back and forth, using lots of cool slides, many of which were on the screen for only seconds before they disappeared forever.
A key point he made several times is that he does a lot of research, though only a fraction of that research (he estimated 10%) might be in the final product. The same went for prototypes: only 10% of the prototype work might make it into the final game.
He also gave the somewhat depressing estimate that there may be only 1 intelligent species per 1000 galaxies. It suddenly feels very lonely here in space…
Here are some pics, including a couple pics of slides:
-David
He’s just not the same without the facial hair…
Oh man… those photos are just asking for a YTMND. willwright.ytmnd.com … woo woo!