Log - July 17, 2004

Last Friday on July 17, 2004, I was invited by a number of colleagues to attend an interesting seminar on Game Design Documentation at the Chulalongkorn University.  Somehow Dr. Yod remembered the time wrong, and informed our whole game development group wrong for that day, and we came to Chula around noon - thinking the seminar was in the afternoon - in which it was actually arranged 8:00 in the morning!
 
Anyway, though we missed the seminar, in the afternoon we managed to attend to our secondary objectives, in which we have discussed about the arrangement of a game seminar which we have just uploaded details at http://www.gdxcon.org.  We are in the final process of finalizing all the details of the seminar, which is going along well.  I was informed by one of the lecturers there, Dr. Pissanu that he would like to bring over his students to attend the seminar, which off-course I quickly agreed - as the seminar was arranged for the good of our game development society as a whole - not any single institute :)  I later learn that Dr. Pissanu was one of my bigger brother's classmate back in Japan, which was a rather surprise, and a common joke we shared that our industry is just simply too small...
 
Later, in the late afternoon, while we have resolved some of the naggling details of the seminar, our group has later discussed about ways to help the Thai game development, which at the present is quite fragmented, into a more organized manner.  We were toying with the idea of pushing up from having 2 main websites, http://www.gamedevx.com and http://www.thaigamedevx.com from a virtual discussion group, into a more concrete group.  Our idea is to create society of thai game developers, but not in manner of those formal groups that are too tad serious, but more on the friendly association.  Right now details are still on the sketching, and we do have some interesting ideas.  The only problem right now is who will lead the society?  Typically of many hardcore programmers/engineers, most of us prefer the shadow than the limeline, and it seems that in the current list of distinguished members we do have strangely a humble grouping :P  Though its good not to have too many personality clashes and people that hog the limelight, in this meeting it was just too strange that no one wants it ;)
 
With such an inconclusive discussion, though we haven't been able to come up with anything concrete on the society for that day, at least the members have tentatively agreed in principle on something.  With more details, I'm optimistic of good things we will do to return to our society!  Wish our group good luck :)