Isn't it about time the Japanese government released some results - and a justification of their methods - for the so called "scientific research" used to justify Whaling?

I think the Australian government are onto something in calling out the Japanese as liars.  Do the Japanese people realise that the world by-and-large sees the whole ICR justification as a huge obvious bare-faced lie?  How do they feel about the world thinking of them as a dishonest nation?

As presented by me, at the Game Focus Germany conference, 2008.  See here: homepage.mac.com/codemonkey_uk/gfg08-transitions.html.  Exported slides as flash, which is missing the transitions, but all the content seems to be intact, so that'll have to do.  I kinda planned to record a voice track and export as quick time, but then I realised if I waited till I'd done that, it most likely would never get done.  It's a 2MB flash file, so be patient, it'll load eventually, just click to move through the slides.

Part 2, Friday, continued.  Previously:

• Thursday's sessions.
  
• "Player Expression: Central to Gaming" - Doug Church (EA) (Friday's keynote speech).
  

Now: "Challenges of creating a good first and third person camera system" - Mike McShaffry (Thief: Deadly Shadows / Unreal 2.5)

And coming soon:

• "Inside the Unreal Networking Model" - Thaddaeus Frogley
  
• "Collaboration FTW; What Game Studios and Game Studies can Learn from Each Other" - Robin Hunicke (EA), &
  
• "Core Casual Gaming; How soccer mums came to play RTS games" - Stéphane Adamiak (Orange)
  

Part 2, Friday.  See also, Part 1, Thursday.

Now: "Player Expression: Central to Gaming" - Doug Church (EA) (Friday's keynote speech).

In future updates:

• "Challenges of creating a good first and third person camera system" - Mike McShaffry,
  
• "Inside the Unreal Networking Model" - Thaddaeus Frogley (yes, that's me),
  
• "Collaboration FTW; What Game Studios and Game Studies can Learn from Each Other" - Robin Hunicke (EA), &
  
• "Core Casual Gaming; How soccer mums came to play RTS games" - Stéphane Adamiak (Orange)
  

Part 1, Thursday, continued.  Previously:

• "The Independent Developer Shall Rise Again" - Grey Costikyan (Keynote),
  
• "Programming is easy, Production is harder, Design is hardest" - Jonathan Blow
  
• "Inside Out Game Design" Stéphane Bura
  
• "Zen and the Art of Project Maintanence" - Risa Cohen
  

Now:

• "Pragmatic game development practices for small (and not so small) companies" - Noel Llopis
  

Part 1, Thursday, continued.  Previously:

• "The Independent Developer Shall Rise Again" - Grey Costikyan (Keynote), &
  
• "Programming is easy, Production is harder, Design is hardest" - Jonathan Blow
  
• "Inside Out Game Design" Stéphane Bura
  

Now:

• "Zen and the Art of Project Maintanence" - Risa Cohen

To follow:

• "Pragmatic game development practices for small (and not so small) companies" - Noel Llopis
  

Part 1, Thursday, continued.  Previously:

• "The Independent Developer Shall Rise Again" - Grey Costikyan (Keynote), &
  
• "Programming is easy, Production is harder, Design is hardest" - Jonathan Blow

Now:

• "Inside Out Game Design" Stéphane Bura

To follow:

• "Zen and the Art of Project Maintanence" - Risa Cohen
  
• "Pragmatic game development practices for small (and not so small) companies" - Noel Llopis
  

Part 1, Thursday, continued.  Previously:

• "The Independent Developer Shall Rise Again" - Grey Costikyan (Keynote)

Now:

• "Programming is easy, Production is harder, Design is hardest" - Jonathan Blow

To follow:

• "Inside Out Game Design" Stéphane Bura
  
• "Zen and the Art of Project Maintanence" - Risa Cohen
  
• "Pragmatic game development practices for small (and not so small) companies" - Noel Llopis
  

Part 1, Thursday.  First up:

• "The Independent Developer Shall Rise Again" - Grey Costikyan (Keynote)
  

To follow:

• "Programming is easy, Production is harder, Design is hardest" - Jonathan Blow
  
• "Inside Out Game Design" Stéphane Bura
  
• "Zen and the Art of Project Maintanence" - Risa Cohen
  
• "Pragmatic game development practices for small (and not so small) companies" - Noel Llopis
  

Fame of sorts.  Linkspam inside.  Also, vote-poll.