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Members-Only Party at GDC:08

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With more prep/planning this year's party went much smoother and was overall quite enjoyable. The party was held on Tuesday, February 19th at the Westin in San Francisco. Food and drinks were served. Fun was had by all.

There were 2170 members RSVP'd (check out who they were).

 

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The small line up for the IGDA members-only party. The ~10-minute wait time was way better than last year's 1-hour+!


We packed over 2000 members into the Westin ballroom.


Patric Palm (Hansoft), Drew Johnston (Microsoft) and Mike Cornford (IGDA scholar).


James Everett, Heather Kelley and ?.


Brenda Brathwaite rewards members with free drink tickets for a successful game pitch (ie, putting together a winning hand in the Writers SIG social card game).


Jesse Schell (CMU), Tobi Saulnier (1st Playable) and Justin Berenbaum (EmSense) make their way into the party.


Tracy Kobeda Brown (PMS Clan - Ticorah / CMU ETC) and Jill Duffy (CMP) connect.


Bill Fulton (Ronin User Experience), Gaurav Mathur (Factor5) and Marty O'Donnell (Bungie).


Can't be a real party without Scott's in kilts: ? and Paul Rylance of Wyte Dragon.


?, ?, Luna Cruz (Anino Games), ?, ? and Gabby Dizon (Flipside Games).


Brian Robbins (Fuel Industries) and Bob Bates.


? and Neil Kirby (Lucent)


Amazingly, over 75% of drinks served were mixed drinks (as opposed to just beer/wine).


Sean Hathaway and Mike Arlington of FullSail.


?, Andi Smithers (Sony Online), Josh Stefanski (NetDevil) and Holger Kratz (dtp entertainment).


Coray Seifert (Kaos Studios), Dylan Tredrea (Organic Motion) and Dennis Crow (Kaos Studios).


Andrew Carroll, Tobi Saulnier and Brenden Conte and a bunch of other 1st Playable Productions in the background.


? and ?.


Thumbs up from Rudy Geronimo (Eidos) and ?'s head.