To wrap up the day, the 5 “presenters” sat at the front of the room and allowed us to ask some questions (both stupid and not as stupid) to which they would have to try to provide answers to without looking stupid.

Rory graced us with his presence, and then proceeded to interrupt the introductions with his question. Once his question was answered, he promptly packed his bags and walked out. All the pressure of being famous I guess.

Most of the questions seemed to revolve around how to make money from game development, and most of the answers seemed to be “good luck, loser”. The panel did a good job of explaining that the game-dev market is very hard to break in to, and its quite difficult to publish your own games these days without a substantial chunk of cash. It was mentioned that the shareware model is still quite viable though, and can bring in a little bit of cash now and then.

The best thing is that there is one other person that seems to play Guild Wars. I think he may in fact be the only person that I have met face to face that plays this game. What a shame.

This session was a fun way to end the day.