Slides from the ICA gig of the Inside Game Design series of talks, supporting the book launch in 2007.

1. 2006 was an exciting year for the industry
with a growth in sales, the industry
enjoyed a 7% increase on units sold from
the previous year taking the total to a
whopping 65.1 million units sold.
ELSPA happily announces these record
sales of interactive entertainment software
across all formats totalling £1.36 billion, an
increase of over 1% per cent over 2005ʼs
record figures.

2. hello.

3. some numbers…

4. 170,000,000
(one hundred and seventy million)

6. 2006 was an exciting year for the industry
with a growth in sales, the industry
enjoyed a 7% increase on units sold from
the previous year taking the total to a
whopping 65.1 million units sold.
ELSPA happily announces these record
sales of interactive entertainment software
across all formats totaling £1.36 billion, an
increase of over 1% per cent over 2005ʼs
record figures.

7. but…

9. games are made by people.

10. inside game design

11. inside game design(ers)

12. so…

13. bizarre creations
paul carruthers
free radical design
freestylegames
frontier developments
gastronaut studios
harmonix
introversion
media molecule
nabi studios
relentless software
keita takahashi
torpex games
valve
lorne lanning

14. but…

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or literature
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for an
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lative poetry
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18. where do i begin…

22. desks.

24. caveats, then…
bring someone else on stage.

26. Media Molecule

27. start #1:
Bluespoon

28. start #2:
Rag Doll Kung Fu

29. work:
LittleBigPlanet

30. work:
Studio

39. process:
paper

48. future:
diy