Ben waiting for plane to SFO for another GDC!
Ben waiting for plane to SFO for another GDC!
Cloudscape
Coming in for landing. Not as pretty under the clouds
BARTing it to the hotels
The powerglove is out
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Shag encounter at the station!
Haha!
All smiles
Emerging from the station
Where do we go now?
To the King George!
Epic mirror - more frame than mirror
Cabbing to Thai dinner
Writing school fronted as pirate shop
Purdy
Ron of 2D Boy selected excellent place to eat
Want a vacuum cleaner?
Walking to bar for drinks
Epic mural on the way
Ladybug is onto somehting
Loving this
It's like cortex command!
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It just goes on and on
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Looong
Moving on..
More sweet street art
Getting some drinks
Getting happy
DMC in the hizzouse
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This fortress is the HQ of reputable websites such a kink.com
Adam made wurdle!
Phil and Infinite Ammo crew!
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Time for some walking/running around town on this beautiful spring day
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Cherry blossoms blooming
Creepy as heck
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Cool playground - the ground was squishy
Blurst crew working in the W lobby
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Cresting a hill
Swanky Ritz Carlton
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China Town proper.. dried fish?
Cat shit - just what I needed! (is actually ginseng)
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Really steep
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Best crab sculpture yet
Breakdancers laying it down
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He held this pose for a good 8 seconds
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About to flip over the hands
Sweet KLR
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Aw. Cat + rat + dog chilling in front of my hotel
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Sunset before Indie-an food
The tables are set
Scary pirate brooding
The awesome indies start arriving in droves
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The main course arrives
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Cactus' suspenders steal the show
Wolfire and TGC folks
yum
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Jeff has the internet in his backpack - streaming live webcam feed of the party
Our gracious host and sponsor for the evening
Everyone stuffed; heading to appropriate bar
Pixel art mastery
Here we are!
This is Owl Country
The indies file in
Some guy
Mark Johns, iphone dev extraordinaire
BMcC in the house
Shag and Derek ranting the night away
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Ron Carmel sharing the 2D Boy wisdom on first day of IGS
Matthew and Steve doing a smashing job directing the proceedings
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Expo hall still under construction
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IGF pavilion half done!
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Bling!
It just got swedier in here!
Cactus putting on unforgettable visual presentation
o rly
Derek loses it
INDEED!
Alternating between laughing and crying - this is powerful stuff
Petri takes over, like some relay of Scandianian awesome
Ben soaks it all in
Imaginary campfire
More Sweindies!
Audience was rapt all day
Dinner time
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Oh, Alec... <3
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Heading out
Throng of indies onto play the night away at Derek's
Kyle and Phil, looking prophetic
Phil's hair is amazing.
Is this a musical?
Apparently it's a tragic drama. Phil is singing something beautiful right now
Hampa, Jamie, and Daniel talking about business models that actually work, moderated by Matthew
Tongue in corner of mouth - so cute!
Inter-session pow-wow
Mark now performs an aria
Followed by Chris
Jason must have trouble finding long enough clothes
Ugh marketing
EVIL Eskil has come to make all art jobs obsolete!
Eskil blowing everyone away with his own tools
Love planet editor
Who let these bums on stage?!
Alec and Tommy close out the best IGS yet with one of the most realistic and inspirational talks yet
High five, you hobos!
So many fabboys
At the 10-bit party
Pizza galore
Derek, Jacob (sp?), and Phil
Petri and David
Damn hobos crashing the party
Kyle is caught in the headlights
Swedes are consipiring
Awwww!
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Hahaha no comment
Adam is surprised?
Nostril inspection shot
Hampa, Alex.. almost too much genius in the same place
Indie love meatball
I'm not familiar with this dance
Whoa Jeff, where is your hand!?
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Kyle's hair will get windblown spontaneously and mysteriously
Soooo crowded
Cactus getting some love
Erik and more fab indie hair
Award ceremony about to start - rock on!
The VIP reception before the show... open bars
Yay MGS
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Yay post-apocalyptic training simulator!
Holy shit awesome fan love from Cory
Post-ceremony dinnertime
Shag is deep in intense rant mode
Shiny disco balls!
Andy and Matthew unwinding after amazing job well done
Steve showing his Shadow Physics project to Ron
Another day at the IGF pavilion
Back stage of the Kojima keynote
Cortex Command's spot is blinged out
Two awards! Still hasn't sunk in yet
Distilled indie business at Kongregate HQ
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Three nations represented in one couch
Kongregate and 2D Boy representin'
Caught Kellee munching the 'za
Matthew and his stern look
Phil touching his iPhil
Alec and the hobo hat
Serious business begins
Everyone soaking in the shared wisdom
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Holding up a dying platform
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Great talks continue
Back and forth
Unintentional flash makes for evil eyes
Matthew Kumar is durnker than a scottish guy and a bottle of Capn Morgan
1UP offices, btw
1UP lobby
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Whut a mess
Developers blabbing the night away
Incredibly drunk podcasting at 1UP at 1AM
Onto the next party!
CC booth at the IGF pavilion
Rather blinged out by the last day! Awards, PC Gamer article and everything
Another beautiful spring evening in the city
Cool mural
On the muni to the Giant Robot party
Stepping off
Walking the rest of the way, indie style
Sweet sunset
so nice
Volumetric lighting win
Bling
Arrived
Sweet madness inside
Fab art gallery
Haha.. is that me?
Edmund and the art
Love it
Great selection of art books
Game made for the event
Mario and Q-bert... oh my
Cactus freaking out
Base Man
Lurv megaman
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Hehe
Who are those shadowy figures up there?!
Ah, Derek and Adam trying to get Derek's game working on the projector
Lolwhut
Derek's art game up and running
Some weird shit in here
OK!
Banksy rocks
About to head back to hotel area for dinner
Ooh someone is checking out Phil's derrière
Dinner at Buca
Then a final drunken night at a crazy bar
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There's the owner of the place... with his fat cat, headphones for the TV, and oxygen tube
Surliest of surly photos of Mr. Surly
Trolley took us to the bike rental place
Gorgeous day for a ride
Here we go
Going to emerge into a park
Here
That's where we're going!
Wadam and his inflatable fat suit
Some shadow beasts
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Wow, massive fog wall rolling in fast
Nice beach
That wall of fog wasn't there 15 mins ago!
We're headed stright for it
Getting real close to the bridge now
Up and around
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Made it!
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Surreal
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Love that header font!!
Ghostly ship
Shadows cast through the fog
Check out how the fog is swept around the pillar
Eeeiry
Keep on truckin'
Fog passes all of a sudden
Second pillar is fog free
Onto Sausalito!
Painfully pretty
After lunch, walking around on foot
Wha?
Nice castle
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Heading to Tiburon
Dig the color scheme on this helo
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Arrived in Tiburon
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Turns out the ferry won't be able to take us back from here, so we have to ride back to Sausalito - no problem
That's where we started this morning
Riding back
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Bling
Waiting for ferry
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Unintentionally patriotic photo?
David (blue) and Alexander chilling (literally) on deck
Would suck to be stuck here
Again, a glrious end to our glorious day of almost 30 miles of biking
Final dinner in SF.. everyone's really tired
Last day before our flight - we're kicked out of the hotels
Chilling in Union Square Park
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So many belly shots
Hobo wadam
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Yeah that could use some sun
Leaving SF and its beautiful weather - best GDC EVAR