feedback on the OAKUTRON 201X at experimental gameplay 2012

I support occupy, but the political introduction was kind of irrelevant.

The  Occupy  seasion wasn't that interesting.

The game choices were very inspiring - I am heartened by the amount of attention co-op and truly social experiences are getting. And thank you so so so so much for bringing the Oakutron - such an inspiring project! Loves & hugs for all!

I admire the choice to feature such a socially concious product as the OAK-U-TRON. It's not very relevant professionally, but it touches on an incredibly important social issue, something our medium does far too in-frequently. I have general reservations (see below) about  scene  focused talks in this session, but OAK-U-TRON's subject matter is too important to ignore.

Offenders #2 were the Keep Me Occupied! group. We saw about 3x as much as we needed to there. It's great that they made an experience for the occupy movement -- I'm all for that -- but there was very little talk or enlightenment about experimental gameplay beyond  the dead players stay behind to help others.  But overall it felt wrong for this venue.

i left after the Occupy Oakland bit, which was a shame because i hear i missed some great presentations. Occupy Oakland was a very uninteresting game without much of a hook, and the speakers came off as self-important.

The three presentations that blew my mind and their speakers should be recognized for having amazing content and a very solid presentation of that content are about the following games Glitchhiker, Oak-u-tron, and Journey.

Lots of great stuff.  Anna's presentation was the low point.

This session was embarrassingly biased towards white men. Even a theoretical physics conference would have more women researchers. The organizer should be ashamed.