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We missed Peter Chan's Keynote! 16 Apr, 2002, 08:42 / 6 comments

By Spaff


Well this news, is in fact old, but I thought I'd post this anyways:
Whilst mooching about at work, I found an abandoned brochure for the Game Developers Conference that took place in San Hose about a month ago. on the first page was a list of people giving Keynote talks at the show, and under Visual Arts was listed Mr. Peter Chan.
As a conceptual illustrator and storyboard artist, Peter Chan has worked on games (Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, Putt Putt, Pajama Sam, Vampire the Masquerade to name a few), films and advertising since 1989. After 4 years at LucasArts, he moved to a remote island in Washington State to launch his freelance career ( a giant and illogical leap of faith initiated by quality of life issues). Film credits include Antz, Star Wars: Episode 1 The Phanton Menace, Monkeybone and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's(Philosipher's) Stone. He recently completed 2 projects for the Xbox (New Legends for Infinite Machine, and an unannounced Tim Schafer game).
So yeah we missed a more than probably interesting talk from the man behind some of our favourite things...
Other LEC folk that we missed included:
  • "400 rules of Game Design" - Hal Barwood (who also appeared on the 'Advisory board')
  • "Managing the QA Process" -Chuck McFadden
  • "Battling Level Design in Hardcore Genres for a Casual Audience" - Tim Longo (Star Wars StarFighter)
  • "From All Levels: Perspectives of Level Design" - Tim Miller (Jedi Knight)
  • "Game Audio Production: Process and Strategy" - Clint Bajakian
  • "Learning from the Classics: A discussion of What Made Games Great" - Alex Neuse ( Grim Fandango)
This post is pretty pointless, seeing as it's already happened, but at least we will remember to send someone there next year to see what these people have to say!
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6 Comments

  • SamNMax on 19 Apr, 2002, 13:27…
    What the Hell is Pajama Sam?
  • Remi O on 16 Apr, 2002, 08:58…
    Peter Chan is the man. That is all.
  • telarium on 16 Apr, 2002, 09:42…
    Agreed. Only thing that could top that would be Peter Chan AND Bill Tiller working on that game.
  • Jake on 16 Apr, 2002, 10:16…
    I heard Peter Chan was dead. Something about being wedged into an art drawer deep inside LEC.
  • SamNMax on 19 Apr, 2002, 13:24…
    Ohh! That must have been hard for Zach Chan. :{
  • DJG on 16 Apr, 2002, 15:26…
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