Silk: Wilderness Adventures

GDC Speed Dating

Right about now, I have my first meeting with publishers at GDC. I have a solid ten-minute pitch deck, and Switch demos of two games, Silk and another project not-yet-announced. With only thirty minutes for each meeting, it's going to be hectic, but that's the carnage of the publisher pitch. Securing a publisher for Silk will be a big step forward for the project, and depending upon what the publisher offers it might even be enough to complete the game. We'll have to see... publishers have different levels of funds, and you can never count on them picking up the tab for the whole of development. Anyway, wish me luck!

Leaving for San Francisco

Off to California today... It'll be the first time I've done GDC since 2007. I was on the speaking faculty for four years in a row then, and intimately involved in the IGDA, for whom I ran a chapter and set up the Game Writing SIG. But the GDC organisers and I had something of a falling out and I decided to give my support to different events, like Gamescom and Develop, which I'm speaking at again in July. Anyway, I'm only going this year for the Expo, which is a great opportunity to go speed dating with publishers. Silk is one of two projects I'm pimping there... wish me luck!