Talk @ Nordic Game
[edit: IE seems to have some problems with Slideshare embedding, so here’s a direct link to the presentation:]
I will give a talk at the academic track of next week’s Nordic Game event at Mälmö, Sweden. I’ve been slotted parallel to Matsuura-san of Parappa fame, among others. (Luckily I already have a signed Parappa soundtrack by Matsuura from Tokyo some years ago ;) Anyhow, you have a chance to check out my presentation right here.
June 1st, 2007 at 0:17
[…] The most “entertaining” performance was held by the famous Masaya Matsuura, the maker of Parappa the Rapper (1996) (that evidently emptied audience from the other tracks as my colleague Aki Järvinen from Veikkaus, the Finnish National Lottery got to find out). First part of Matsuura’s performance was hmm… rather interesting, and I have to say that even though nothing really clung to my mind (other than “games… are… somethingsomething.. human soul”) the presentation was enjoyable. This was largely due to the fact that after the talk we saw him singing with Aibo, the robot dog that participated rather successfully: only half way thru I realized that he was actually “singing on the go” and not pre-programmed. […]