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January 09, 2004
"Game Makes Dream Come True"
...believe it or not, that's the tag line for the <a href="http://www.chinajoy.net/">China Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference</a> (aka "ChinaJoy"). ChinaJoy is the first major game industry event taking place in mainland China. Despite half a day being taken up with welcome speeches from various government ministers (eg, the Director of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology Products of the Ministry of Information Industry of the People's Republic of China (and, that's just the first guy)), it looks to be a standard industry style confab.
I'll be there to give two lectures: one in the business track on the learning potential of games and their use in "serious" applications; the other on game design basic in the tech track.
This will be my first time to China and I am very much looking forward to learning more about the culture and the game development scene. Luckily, I won't be totally "alone" over there as industry buddies like <a href="http://www.gmlb.com/">Eric Zimmerman</a> and <a href="http://www.nihilistic.com/">Rob Huebner</a> will be there to speak as well. Ditto for the IGDA's <a href="http://www.igda.jp/">Japanese chapter</a> coordinator Kiyoshi Shin.
Should be interesting! And, thank goodness that the flight is not quite as long as the one <a href="http://www.igda.org/blogs/realitypanic/archives/000062.html">to Australia</a> ;)
Posted by della at January 9, 2004 11:12 AM
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Come back with a good report, Jason! :-)
Posted by: Scott Miller at January 13, 2004 09:49 AM
Don't catch SARS!
Posted by: Eric Le at January 18, 2004 11:16 PM