Fukuoka Middleware Forum

As expected, the forum in Fukuoka today was quite a bit smaller than the one in Tokyo last week, but it was still good. We got several new leads, including a lead in China. We even got approached by a large government organization that really wants to get aggressive in promoting game development tools in educational institutions here. Saweet!

We had one small problem, and met it with a victory. Never before had anybody seen this, but Val's Dell XPS was not compatible with the refresh rate on the lecture hall projector. Therefore, we had no PPT displayed, and Val couldn't show the Terrain demo. The victory was in the improvisation. My hat is COMPLETELY off to Takumi, for the very professional way in which he improvised, and went ahead and delivered a very informative Gamebryo speech with no notes, no PPT, no nothing. Excellent job, Takumi; you delivered an improvised speech like a real pro!

Enjoy the photos below, including a couple of light-hearted ones at the end.

Great job, Takumi, in improvising during our projector failure!!!

Takumi doing the traditional business card exchange on the left, and Kamata-san and Shinozaki-san doing a pitch on the right, by our booth at the event.

DB and Val chatting it up in the exhibition hall.

Val won a highly-coveted plush toy via a Bingo competition at the event party this evening!

This photo taken in my hotel room. Now... I'm sure it's just FINE to drink from this cup, because it's "RINSED WELL." :-)