Talks

We had an interesting discussion with a couple of guys, Gary and John.
In the first class, John who works in a boardgame shop in town talked about how the attitude towards computer games has changed over the years, e.g. In 80's movie's it was only the geeky kid who played computer games whilst today it is no longer really considered something only geeks play and has even overtaken the movie industry in terms on annual profit.
He also talked about different ways of getting into the games industry such as roles for the artistically inclined or marketing.

In the second class we had John, a PhD student give us a talk about the future of computer games. This was also an interesting topic, he talked about how he believed that in the near future we won't need machines with physical memory to store the games we play instead all we will need to play them is an Internet connection. He also predicted consoles would be gone or on the way out in five years time which I think is pretty unlikely, if you walk into any game store it is obvious that far more shelve space is assigned to console games than PC games these days, maybe one day there will be no need for consoles but I can't see them going away within the next five years but it was an interesting discussion nonetheless.