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Gotland Game Conference Speech
🕑 Added 2017-08-14 06:03:39 +0000 UTC This isn't a new ES episode (I'm working on that now!) but this is what I went away in June all the way out to Sweden to do! I'm a little awkward - this is my first public speaking gig - but it's a decent remix of the video I did on violence a few years back, re-framed as a piece on computational platforms as shaping the games that run on them.Also, I'd highly recommend some of the other videos on the channel - the other speakers there were great, and other YouTubers like George Weidmen have spoken in the past! Plus if you watch this year's award show I get introduced by Ernest Adams, which was a particularly great treat. Anyways, just raising this to your attention as I finish up the next episode! I'll post again soon!
Comments
M Young
>my first public speaking gig Congratulation!
You did great. There are always things to improve (even for seasoned speakers) but you were authentic, whitty and insightful.
Illuminati Games
You are doing an excellent job.
Echo Tango
Feedback on presenting: for jokes, especially in academic presentations, it's generally better to not draw attention to them. (Everyone in an academic audience is definitely there to learn; Not all are in the mood for jokes at any given time.) e.g. Make a visual pun, but treat the slide completely seriously. Or use comic book super-heroes for an illustrating example. As for the slides themselves, you did a pretty good job, but you had some where you had very small print showing a large amount of information - graphs/diagrams are better. Also, slides should add to what you're saying, or be the broad summary of what you're saying, but not be what you're saying - then people will just be reading instead of listening to you. Other than that, good presentation!
Ville Nurmi
Thanks for the talk. I find many of the points you raise very interesting, for example classifying games roughly by how much they are spreadsheets or spatial simulations. I'd love to see you present more of this kind of fleshed out versions of your video essays at events. Do you have any plans of doing so in the future?
I feel like you could have done a better job elucidating what systems inherent to a computer rather than only their history encourage violence (the preciseness and binary nature of them, for instance). I realise some of that is covered in the video you mentioned at the beginning, but people listening to the talk probably haven't seen that.
