Albert Posted February 6, 2013 Author Share Posted February 6, 2013 What a great time tonight! This was the first time Richard Garriott had given this particular talk, and it was wonderful. He covered a fair bit in only an hour, and focused mainly on space travel, culminating in what he feels the next three decades of human space flight will entail. His gaming past was only touched upon briefly (as expected), but he stated more than once that game development is still his full time job, and that space exploration is a "hobby". He's also quite the entrepreneur, and has his hands in more space and green energy companies than I was aware of. After the prepared talk, he hung around for another hour and took questions from a much smaller number of us. This was fantastic, as there were some great questions and great answers. The one that stood out the most was his description of how the space toilets work. Oh my god, we were all laughing so much at his telling of the first time he had to use the toilet for solid waste. :D I also spoke with him briefly during the reception. Richard Garriott is very approachable and spent a lot of time talking to people. It's obvious that he truly loves what he is doing, and he has an infectious enthusiasm for it. Here are some photos: ..Al 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 So no added HP? Whatta letdown Humankind...we'll never go anyplace. Earth is all we got. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 So no added HP? Whatta letdown Thou hast lost an eighth! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkhan Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Gahhh so jealous. Richard Garriott is one of those rich dudes that does it right. Rather than basically wipe his ass with 100$ bills and go HARHAHRHR IM RICH, he does all kinds of side things that are actually benefitting people/places in some way. I need to meet that dude, bad. The fact that he's still wearing that necklace is awesome. did Ultima come up at all? Any mention of Ultimate RPG? did he open any moon gates? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted February 6, 2013 Author Share Posted February 6, 2013 did Ultima come up at all? Any mention of Ultimate RPG? Not really. did he open any moon gates? Yes, and it was a grand stage entrance!! ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkhan Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Yes, and it was a grand stage entrance!! ..Al man I hope you're serious. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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+Sauron Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 I wasn't able to go yesterday. I got a reply to my RSVP, but by that time it was only a couple of hours before the event, and I couldn't get myself down there. However, I'm no stranger to Lord British. I used to work at NCsoft, with many of my coworkers having come from Origin. I used to see him at the office all the time, and talked to him a few times myself. He's extremely friendly and down to earth, and is one of those people who obviously walks his own path and doesn't care what anyone else thinks of it. Considering how successful he's been, no one has any room to tell him otherwise. Have to say that I agree with Arkhan, he does seem to get involved in things that seems to genuinely affect the world around him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted February 6, 2013 Author Share Posted February 6, 2013 I wasn't able to go yesterday. I got a reply to my RSVP, but by that time it was only a couple of hours before the event, and I couldn't get myself down there. Damn.. However, I'm no stranger to Lord British. I used to work at NCsoft, with many of my coworkers having come from Origin. I used to see him at the office all the time, and talked to him a few times myself. He's extremely friendly and down to earth, and is one of those people who obviously walks his own path and doesn't care what anyone else thinks of it. Considering how successful he's been, no one has any room to tell him otherwise. Have to say that I agree with Arkhan, he does seem to get involved in things that seems to genuinely affect the world around him. I'm still kicking myself for not getting a photo of him when he was in my office at Ion Storm looking at the Ultima maps on my wall. Of course, this was well before we had smartphones with good cameras, but someone at the office would have had one, and I'm sure we had a nice camera the artists used to take photos for textures. ..Al 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Sauron Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Been playing Ultima IV, and it took a little while to get back into the swing of things. It looks like I'm getting there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 Dammit, I may need to stop reading this thread! ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Valor... hooRA... hehe.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Shame some game designers of old don't wanna talk about the past anymore. Same with John van Ryzin, Retro Gamer tried to interview him for the mag, but he's not interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 Shame some game designers of old don't wanna talk about the past anymore. Same with John van Ryzin, Retro Gamer tried to interview him for the mag, but he's not interested. It's not that he's not interested in talking about his gaming past, it's that the topic of this talk was "Space Exploration", and he only had an hour in which to give this talk. And it's obvious that he could have spoken on this topic for many hours (and in fact, he stuck around for over an hour after his talk ended to continue talking about the subject with people who stayed). It would have been inappropriate for him to spend time talking about his game development history when people came to his talk to hear about Space Exploration. ..Al 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulBlazer Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Would have been cool to go hear him speak. I've also read about how popular (and wicked cool) his Halloween Hunted House is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RARusk Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 *high fives Albert* I first met him at the IGDA Picnic last year and he was kind enough to take a picture of me sitting inside Ernest Kline's DeLorean: And he also posed with me at a meet and greet after the first day of GDC Online 2012 last October: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted February 8, 2013 Author Share Posted February 8, 2013 I first met him at the IGDA Picnic last year and he was kind enough to take a picture of me sitting inside Ernest Kline's DeLorean: ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RARusk Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 *thumbs up* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RARusk Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 BTW Albert, have you ever been to the IGDA Picnic? Last year was my first one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donjn Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Is Richard ever in Los Angeles? Albert, I am jus tlike you, one of the biggest Ultima fans there are... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnight Synergy Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Very cool, Albert. I met Garriot at the Game Developer's Conference in 2006. It was a bit of a surprise, so I was too star-struck to ask any good questions. (Or I should have gotten him to sign my Ultima IV cloth map... that would have been cool!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 So playing U4 or should I say XU4 now and while traversing in my ship I found 2 whirlpools and 1 water tornado - was this in the original U4 release? I dont remember 2 whirlpools, just 1 and never a water tornado. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donjn Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 That could be right if they are spaced on opposite sides of the map. Maybe they used to have a wondering range limit but in XU4 that was not coded in. How far apart were they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 They are pretty close some times - but I dont remember the water tornado. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Weren't there 'evil' waterspouts in one of the Ultima games? IIRC you could shoot it like a monster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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