Infernus

After the keynote I retreated from the ballroom to a meeting room hidden in a corner of a mysterious mezzanine, where I heard Clinton Keith of Highmoon Studios talk about agile in the gaming industry. Starting from a position of describing the evolution of the gaming industry from a producer of mass titles into one [...]

Agile 2008 opened at the somewhat startling time of 8:30 with a keynote by journalist James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds. He opened with an anecdote about the experiences of Francis Galton, famed both for statistical science and infamous as the coiner of the word ‘eugenics’, in relation to the surprising accuracy of [...]

For my sins, I find myself sitting in a hotel in Toronto, watching the rain steam down the windows. To be fair, I could have done this at home in London, a city in which clement weather is but a month. Instead I’ve been shipped 8 hours west, across the Atlantic and dangerously close to [...]