What have you been doing the whole winter?
Hello!
Another awesome No More Sweden is in the works, hopefully we can soon secure a location. The preliminary dates for this year’s event is July, 1-4th or 8-11th. If you’ve got a big problem with attending any of those weekends, comment below so that we can see how many people want to change it to some other time. The thinking behind the dates is that it’s late enough for people to actually have started their vacation but still far enough from the BIGjam in August. For general questions about the event, use this e-mail: info@nomoresweden.se
The big upgrade this year’s NMS is that we will try to focus more on learning from each other and show off our work. Everyone who is interested in giving a talk should send an e-mail to erik.svedang@gmail.com with a short description off what they’d want to do and how much time they’ll need. Hopefully this can become a great opportunity to get to know more about what everybody is up to; a kind of mini-GDC (but more fun!)
Examples of what YOU could do:
- Show prototypes, experiments, unreleased stuff etc. Finished or unfinished, it doesn’t matter.
- Show a finished game you’ve made and explain your thinking behind it
- Review/show anything that you find inspiring
- Talk about game design, art, sound, programming, whatever (maybe you have given a talk somewhere else that you can use again?)
- Give a tutorial or “tips & trix”-session for some program that you like (Gamemaker, Unity, Flash, Photoshop, etc)
- Rant about something that pisses you off
- Panel discussion (suggest other panel members) about a subject matter close to your heart
- Share an experience of being an indie game developer
- Anything else you can come up with
So please, think of a something you would want to do and help us make this a reality!!!
Also, for those who worry: there will still be a competition (Jens is going to be in charge of that) but it’s going to take less time and be a little less serious than last year.
Hope to see you at this year’s No More Sweden!
May 3rd, 2010 at 23:00
Put it in Skövde!
Also week 28 would fit me much better! 15-18 July
May 3rd, 2010 at 23:12
Skövde would be the ultimate location! Direct train lines from Stockholm and Göteborg? Yes please.
Kårhuset could work, I guess.
May 3rd, 2010 at 23:33
Nööööööööööö keep it in Malmö…
May 3rd, 2010 at 23:41
Oh and the first weekend (1-4) is better for me but either will do.
May 4th, 2010 at 02:00
I’ll only be in Sweden from July 20, would love to go if you decide to do it after that. Malmö/Lund area would suit me best. Or Öland!
May 4th, 2010 at 07:29
I might have trouble attending on 10th of July since it’s my fathers birthday, and I learned this/last ludum dare that it’s hard entering a game-competition and celebrating a birthday at the same time!
Oh.. and It’s gotta be in Malmö
May 4th, 2010 at 07:39
Yeah, the 10th is not really good for me either. Collides with the getaway festival. Other than that, whenever and wherever is good =)
In terms of talking, I am not sure if it would be interesting or in the spirit of NMS, but I could talk about my experiences working in the AAA games industry or some tech thing like basic GPU programming.
May 4th, 2010 at 09:32
It seems like there will be even LESS time to just hang out and talk this year. It seems it’s much more serious this year…
Also, those two weekends, I’ll be in Tokyo.. =(
Which is really =)
but =(
May 4th, 2010 at 10:51
I was a bit skeptical at first to this format but seeing the potential topics I think it sounds like it could be really interesting and fun!
I would prefer 10th to 13th, but I can probably come either way.
May 4th, 2010 at 11:05
I personally favor the latter of the proposed dates.
Also, I support the whole setup for the gathering. However, I think the bring-a-presentation could be more or less a REQUIREMENT to participate altogether.
May 4th, 2010 at 15:52
I think Mårten needs a kick in the balls, and then a hug.
May 4th, 2010 at 15:58
I’d sort of like to go this year, though I can’t make it if it’s the 1st to 4th (collides with Peace & Love!). So I vote for the later date.
May 4th, 2010 at 17:27
To those who think it sounds too serious: It’s not meant to be. Or rather, it becomes whatever we want it to be. And the schedule for this will not be anything like 10 hours a day with no breaks. The simple fact is that some of the greatest moments of NMS so far has been things like this (Nifflas and Cactus showing their stuff, Petri giving a talk about game design, etc). And since I think everyone has interesting things to show, there’s no reasons not to.
Also about location: The idea is to have the event move around as much as possible so that the traveling expenses are spread out. For those who don’t know: it’s been once in Skövde and once in Malmö, there’s no tradition to it. The trick for getting it to happen close to where you live is to help find and secure a location. I’d say that Stockholm or Gothenburg is the next logical place (it’s certainly great for international visitors) but it’s hard to find a place there.
Erik
May 5th, 2010 at 22:51
I’ll be coming again. Any of those dates are good for me.
May 7th, 2010 at 14:37
I’ve heard of this nice town called “Uppsala” which is very close to Stockholm and actually closer to Arlanda than the capital is, and where things and buildings are cheap during summer… Apparently they have cake, too.
May 7th, 2010 at 23:44
I think we are quickly approaching the point where the location/time are not as important as making a decision *soon*…
May 12th, 2010 at 09:20
how about the weekend of July 30-August 1?