« Celestial Burper | Main | May you live to eat interesting frozen dessert... » SXSW Freebies!FREE Tom Fulp Presentation at SXSW Interactive on Friday, March 11 The SXSW Interactive Festival is hosting a FREE presentation from Alien Hominid developer Tom Fulp at 7:30 pm on Friday, March 13. This presentation occurs on the top floor of the annex of the Austin Convention Center. Enter at the 4th and Trinity corner of the building. Introduced in August of 2002 on the entertainment website Newgrounds.com, Alien Hominid was one of the most advanced Flash games of the day and a huge online success. Artist Dan Paladin and programmer Tom Fulp never had aspirations for much beyond the Web, until one of Paladin's co-workers had the ambitious idea of taking the game to consoles. People thought they were crazy for trying to release a 2D hand-drawn game in a market obsessed with 3D realism, but 19 months and several mortgages later, Alien Hominid hit shelves and was praised by fans and critics alike. Take a journey through the development of the first Web-born game to cross over to the console market. The SXSW Interactive Festival runs Friday, March 11 through Tuesday, March 15. Keynote speakers include best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell and Ana Marie Cox of wonkette.com. For more information on the the 2005 event, see http://www.sxsw.com/interactive. FREE One-Day Pass to SXSW Interactive Trade Show & Exhibition Can't afford to attend all of the SXSW Interactive Festival -- but still want to get a taste of the excitement of the event? Then sign up online at http://www.sxsw.com/if_pass for a FREE one-day pass to the Interactive / Film (iF!) Trade Show + Exhibition. In addition to scores of top national and international technology companies, the iF! Trade Show & Exhibition hosts a number of other exciting activities. For instance, the Day Stage features panels such as "Future of Podcasting" and "Blogging vs. Journalism." Also, top speakers from the Interactive Festival will be interviewed at StudioSX. Meanwhile, the SouthByBookstore is the spot for book-signing from authors such as Molly Holzschlag, Eric Meyer, Jeffrey Zeldman, Malcolm Gladwell, Neal Pollack and Al Franken. Finally, the Digital Media Academy offers refresher courses on popular software programs such as Final Cut Pro and Photoshop. For complete information on the iF! Trade Show + Exhibition, see http://www.sxsw.com/tradeshow. Located on the top floor of the Austin Convention Center, iF! opens at noon on Sunday, March 13 and runs through 4:00 pm on Tuesday, March 15. jon posted this at 8:58 PM |
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Just thought it funny to point out that in the process of signing up for a free iF! daypass, when asked "how did you find out about iF," blog isn't an option. I ended up going with "friend" over "other," then I decided that it was really nice that the people whose blogs you read are closer to friends than others, even if you've never met them in "real" life or never even communicated back on their blog.
Posted by: Jay | March 8, 2005 12:43 AM