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Archive for August 24th, 2005

August IGDA Presentation: Creativity Is a Dirty Word

Posted by GBGames on August 24th, 2005

The Chicago chapter of the IGDA flew in Lorne Lanning, of Oddworld fame, to give a talk titled “In a Walmart World, Creativity is a Dirty Word”. I took the opportunity to volunteer to help out by collecting the entrance fee and selling the occasional IGDA t-shirt. I got to meet quite a […]

Winning by Default

Posted by GBGames on August 24th, 2005

Smart People Are Dumb. Failure is Success by Jon Jones is a great insight into the best thing you can do to get ahead in work, relationships, and life: show up. Most people won’t, so you win by default.
And that’s why I say smart people are dumb. “But I’m BETTER than him.” “But I […]

Quake 3 Source Now Under GPL

Posted by GBGames on August 24th, 2005

It’s been in the news for some time, but it is still very cool news: Quake 3: Arena Source GPL’d
id has been pretty good about releasing the source to their older game engines. It’s not a new idea for the company. Apparently you still have people who think that the GPL is about […]