ECTS 2004 - or excuse me, did I miss a game show?
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Man was that weak!
When a little surround sound booth is the highlight of the show, there has to be something amiss.
Reading the show programme for ECTS the guy totally slags off ELSPA for putting so much on at the same time. Tee hee. It seems that all the vaguely consumer stuff has been moved off site, and there is a fair bit of other stuff going on, undeniably to the detriment of the main show. One has to wonder if it will see another year. I would have checked out Game Stars but I boycott events featuring "Sports Stars" and the latest "Happening Bands". Ah well!!!
There weren't any lovely finds like last years Metal Arms. A cute little bongo drum game on the Gamecube was pretty much the biggest crowd puller. Not that there were any real crowds. Lots of CD cleaning manufacturers and shelving units. Ho hum!
I did wind up speaking to a couple of interesting people. The Xbox sound system guy was very interesting, and obviously knew his engineering. I would jump at the chance to get one of those setups, but again I simply don't have the house for it. Maybe when I own my own place I can make the committment.
Also a chat with a woman representing a speech recognition company. They bought out Lernout and Hauspie a few years back and are the only provider of speech products across the industry. I suggested that she talks to Microsoft as I am sure that speech control will be a must for the Media PC. Remote controls are all well and good, but speech and gesture are the way to go when you no longer see your PC in the house.
The Dare to be Digital bunch were down as well and got to see their finished projects. Finally saw Sally's City Scrawlaz game which was in fact very stylish and quite anarchic. Fantastic animation too. Interesting to see where they end up.
ECTS
Man was that weak!
When a little surround sound booth is the highlight of the show, there has to be something amiss.
Reading the show programme for ECTS the guy totally slags off ELSPA for putting so much on at the same time. Tee hee. It seems that all the vaguely consumer stuff has been moved off site, and there is a fair bit of other stuff going on, undeniably to the detriment of the main show. One has to wonder if it will see another year. I would have checked out Game Stars but I boycott events featuring "Sports Stars" and the latest "Happening Bands". Ah well!!!
There weren't any lovely finds like last years Metal Arms. A cute little bongo drum game on the Gamecube was pretty much the biggest crowd puller. Not that there were any real crowds. Lots of CD cleaning manufacturers and shelving units. Ho hum!
I did wind up speaking to a couple of interesting people. The Xbox sound system guy was very interesting, and obviously knew his engineering. I would jump at the chance to get one of those setups, but again I simply don't have the house for it. Maybe when I own my own place I can make the committment.
Also a chat with a woman representing a speech recognition company. They bought out Lernout and Hauspie a few years back and are the only provider of speech products across the industry. I suggested that she talks to Microsoft as I am sure that speech control will be a must for the Media PC. Remote controls are all well and good, but speech and gesture are the way to go when you no longer see your PC in the house.
The Dare to be Digital bunch were down as well and got to see their finished projects. Finally saw Sally's City Scrawlaz game which was in fact very stylish and quite anarchic. Fantastic animation too. Interesting to see where they end up.
ECTS
September 03, 2004
