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Super Meat Boy postmortem, Angry Birds and Zynga talks announced for GDC 2011
In case you didn't know, it's the 25th anniversary of the Game Developers Conference this year, and that means a load of extra special presentations. Beyond the head of Nintendo keynoting, the laundry list of legendary developers giving "classic" postmortems, and various announcements, it was revealed today that Super Meat Boy devs Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes ("Team Meat") will be giving a postmortem of their own. And hey, we think they're pretty extra special. Additionally, Zynga VP of product development Mark Skaggs will be discussing his company's evolution, framed around the release of FarmVille and the push towards CityVille over the last year -- we'd suggest fledgling Facebook millionaires not be late. And finally, rounding out today's announcement is news of an Angry Birds talk from Rovio's Peter Vesterbacka (self-claimed "Head Eagle" at the studio). We'll be on hand at GDC bringing you all the meaty, free-to-play, bird-flinging news as it breaks.
Mark Skaggs joins Top Secret to help make a beast-racing MMO
The good people at Warcry are reporting that Mark Skaggs, who they call a "veteran developer," but who actually is an old RTS maker from the golden days of Command and Conquer at Westwood Studios and more recently the Battle for Middle-Earth from EA, has joined the Top Secret project from Acclaim. Top Secret isn't a game -- it's actually a program that's designed to enable a small community of developers to come up with their own game, which will then be funded and published by Acclaim. The idea they've come up with? "Beast" breeding and racing, with an anime flair.Warcry claims it's an MMO, but there's not much in the press release or on the site about that. It seems to be more like a MCC -- massively community created. But considering the final product will be free to play, we'll have to wait and see what Acclaim, David Perry, and now Mark Skaggs bring to the table.
