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“So this is us trying to give the recorder a reboot.” Oh, Jesus. “In the baroque period the recorder was basically the electric guitar.” says Ian Wiley as he reveals that there are recorders hidden beneath our seats.
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Wot we learned: Conferences can be boring. There’s always going to be someone bored.”Ī Bit of Alright wants to change that and make the conference more fun.īefore leaving the stage David tells us that they are sharing their Twitter hashtag this year (#boa2012) with Bloodstock Rock Festival, but only because the alternative to this was to share a hashtag with the Business of Aging. “But the indie crowd is so diverse that it’s really hard to write a talk that will appeal to everyone in the audience. To the point where audience members start betting on the presentation with the person next to you. Most people, he reckons, think that a conference is okay if it includes things like this gray, lifeless triangle (“this is supposed to represent the five stages of passion or something”) and that many presenters think “whatever generic shapes Powerpoint can shit out are great.”īut this is dull, he says. He began by putting a big, gray triangle on-screen and telling everyone how most conferences are boring, boring, boring. Enjoy.ĭavid Hayward, who is the mastermind behind A Bit of Alright and previous years’ World of Love, took to the stage to introduce the day’s frivolities. We didn’t bring a photographer so instead we got some artist’s impressions by MS Paint maestro Malachy P. So treat what follows as a sort of highlight reel. Sadly, I couldn’t get to every talk because there are lots. So important were these talks that I was dispatched to record every word I could. But the body of the conference is made up of talks by indie devs designed to enlighten, engagify, enwisen and enrapturate. For instance, Prison Architect and Johann Sebastian Joust were both there (post-Rumpus). There were demos and physical games to play. What’s important is that RPS was there and that we saw many things that were interesting both from a developer perspective and a player perspective. It was held in Battersea, home to famous album covers and London’s premier dog’s home. So I quickly hopped on the bus to a Bit of Alright.Ī Bit of Alright is an indie game conference that is the spiritual successor to World of Love. Pisshead Airlines flight 343 to Cape Hangover had reached its destination after all. But all my phone could tell me was that I’d been to what they call a Rumpus. My body told me that I must have been in some kind of plane crash and I went immediately scrambling around for the black box recorder. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.I woke up on Friday morning in shock. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.