I went to the Burning Man: Takeaways for Game Developers session this afternoon, thinking that the Burning Man reference might just be a metaphor for something, but it wasn't. It was in fact how the experience of Burning Man has affected luscious-Lorne Lanning, Daniel James, Daniel Terdiman, and Ron Meiners.
It was a fascinating panel: at one point, one panellist teared up because BM memories were clearly beautiful ones. It was awesome. Lorne told a great story of this: Dance Dance Immolation:
When you miss a step, you're engulfed in flame. As Lorne laughed, this is indeed a Serious Game.
Soundtrack provided by Rammstien and Arthur Brown and his Crazy World I imagine :-)
Posted by: Tom | March 09, 2007 at 07:15
Interesting. I kind of disagree with this as an official GDC forum. I don't think Burning Man should ever be offered as a seminar. Burning Man, among other things, is a non-commercial statement. Having a session like this, at GDC, seems like it is either:
a) A slight perversion of the non-commercial nature of Burning Man at an event which is entirely based on commercialism or
b) An opportunity to tell Burning Man stories at GDC with a bunch of other burners :)
Posted by: Pat | March 09, 2007 at 20:27