{"id":596,"date":"2009-03-31T16:52:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T21:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=596"},"modified":"2009-04-09T12:31:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T17:31:53","slug":"game-developers-conference-2009-as-told-through-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2009\/03\/31\/game-developers-conference-2009-as-told-through-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Developers Conference 2009, as told through Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What were the main themes of the <a href=\"http:\/\/gdconf.com\/\">Game Developers Conference<\/a> last week?<\/p>\n<p>I participated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmpevents.com\/GD09\/a.asp?option=C&amp;V=11&amp;SessID=9142\">Real-time Research session<\/a> where my group (Ulrika Bennerstedt, Mia Consalvo, Jonas Linderoth, Meagan Rothschild, John Sharp + me) examined what participants were twittering about in the <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23gdc\">#gdc<\/a> channel. I made a script to collect the twitter data, then we analyzed word frequencies using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordle.net\/\">Wordle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gdc-2009-monday-friday-twitter-feeds.pdf\">Download the pdf here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>Brief analysis:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During the summits on Monday and Tuesday, the iPhone was the most commonly discussed platform.<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday and Thursday were dominated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satoru_Iwata\">Satoru Iwata<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hideo_Kojima\">Hideo Kojima<\/a> keynotes.<\/li>\n<li>Friday was dominated by the all-star panel on <span class=\"subhead\">the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmpevents.com\/GD09\/a.asp?option=C&amp;V=11&amp;SessID=8857\">Role of Games in Personal and Social Change<\/a><\/span><strong class=\"subhead\">.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"subhead\">Apart<\/span><span class=\"subhead\"> from that, it was a somewhat theme-less conference, with casual, indie and social games taking up still larger parts of the conversation, and some element of a <\/span><span class=\"subhead\">wait-and-see attitude. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13772_3-10107412-52.html\">Are video games recession-proof<\/a>?<\/span><strong class=\"subhead\"><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Monday<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/monday.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-597\" title=\"monday\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/monday.gif\" alt=\"monday\" width=\"437\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/monday.gif 728w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/monday-300x186.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 85vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tuesday:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/tuesday.gif\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-599\" title=\"tuesday\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/tuesday.gif\" alt=\"tuesday\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/tuesday.gif 741w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/tuesday-300x168.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 85vw, 445px\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Wednesday:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/wednesday.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-600\" title=\"wednesday\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/wednesday.gif\" alt=\"wednesday\" width=\"442\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/wednesday.gif 737w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/wednesday-300x142.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 85vw, 442px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Thursday:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/thursday.gif\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-598\" title=\"thursday\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/thursday.gif\" alt=\"thursday\" width=\"440\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/thursday.gif 734w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/thursday-300x166.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 85vw, 440px\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Friday:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/friday.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-601\" title=\"friday\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/friday.gif\" alt=\"friday\" width=\"437\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/friday.gif 729w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/friday-300x142.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 85vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What were the main themes of the Game Developers Conference last week? I participated in the Real-time Research session where my group (Ulrika Bennerstedt, Mia Consalvo, Jonas Linderoth, Meagan Rothschild, John Sharp + me) examined what participants were twittering about in the #gdc channel. I made a script to collect the twitter data, then we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2009\/03\/31\/game-developers-conference-2009-as-told-through-twitter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Game Developers Conference 2009, as told through Twitter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}