After a long absence, there's an update on methodblog!

Hopefully more are to come. It's been far too long.

Meanwhile, I have some material for you to check out, based on the talks I've given recently at the DICE and GDC conferences.

First, a video of the DICE talk has been posted at AOL videos here:
http://video.aol.com/video/aol-gamedaily-dice-lectures-7-michael-john/1857347

The DICE speech was my first ever public talk, so it... wasn't great. But the quality is very good, and it got this whole ball rolling so worth checking out.

Second, you can get a copy of the audio from the GDC talk here:
http://store.cmpgame.com/product.php?id=2110

I also put the slides up as a flash file on my own website here:
http://www.methodgames.com/gdc/

The audio and the flash files go quite nicely together btw.

Last but not least, I re-wrote the "Apron Strings" portion of the GDC talk and published it as a .pdf file here:
http://www.methodgames.com/gdc/mj_gdc_2007.pdf

The file there is only half the presentation (it omits all the discussion of a union), and is kind of rewritten and abridged from the actual talk. But the key points are in there.

Enjoy!