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walbournIt’s been a great week in Austin, and today I’m headed down to San Antonio to wrap up my Texas trip. With Hurricane Ike, I flew in Friday rather than Saturday, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cuddlyeconomist was already here having evacuated. Over the weekend we visited with a few of her local friends and a number of my local friends including our lovely hosts maggiemaepisces and gev, onyxlynxx, red_tanya, panthyr, and winterlyoness. It hit all my favorite Austin food places, although Tien Hong is sadly no more. Mon-Wed I was busy with the Austin Game Conference downtown, and cuddlyeconomist stayed through to Wednesdsay morning waiting for someone in Houston to get power back.
AGC is much like I remember it from a few years back. It’s themed around MMOs generally, but the conference really doesn’t have much to offer programmers. The content is heavily slanted towards business, design, and audio with the technical sessions mostly being sponsored sessions that are a bit salesy. Lots of pimping of Open Source technologies, particularly by Sun Microsystems, because Linux is a popular backend OS for many MMOs. The exposition is primarily game developer recruiters and schools. The convention hall itself was also housing Hurricane Ike refugees, so the whole event was a bit chaotic. Still, it’s good to check in on the conference again after 4 years and see where it is heading, and I had a number of meetings while I was in town—although a few of those were cancelled due to storm aftermath.
I’m off to my folk’s place for the evening, and then meeting up withcuddlyeconomist again for my 20th High School Reunion. I’m not sure there will be anyone there I actually know—I lost track of most people when I went to UT Austin after leaving San Antonio—so I’m glad I’ll have company with me in any case.
cuddlyeconomist was already here having evacuated. Over the weekend we visited with a few of her local friends and a number of my local friends including our lovely hosts maggiemaepisces and gev, onyxlynxx, red_tanya, panthyr, and winterlyoness. It hit all my favorite Austin food places, although Tien Hong is sadly no more. Mon-Wed I was busy with the Austin Game Conference downtown, and cuddlyeconomist stayed through to Wednesdsay morning waiting for someone in Houston to get power back.AGC is much like I remember it from a few years back. It’s themed around MMOs generally, but the conference really doesn’t have much to offer programmers. The content is heavily slanted towards business, design, and audio with the technical sessions mostly being sponsored sessions that are a bit salesy. Lots of pimping of Open Source technologies, particularly by Sun Microsystems, because Linux is a popular backend OS for many MMOs. The exposition is primarily game developer recruiters and schools. The convention hall itself was also housing Hurricane Ike refugees, so the whole event was a bit chaotic. Still, it’s good to check in on the conference again after 4 years and see where it is heading, and I had a number of meetings while I was in town—although a few of those were cancelled due to storm aftermath.
I’m off to my folk’s place for the evening, and then meeting up with
cuddlyeconomist again for my 20th High School Reunion. I’m not sure there will be anyone there I actually know—I lost track of most people when I went to UT Austin after leaving San Antonio—so I’m glad I’ll have company with me in any case.
