I mentioned this already in my post on GDC talks, but I wanted to call out Jon Blow’s very cool session entitled Nuances of Design, which he has written up over on the Braid blog. Basically, most times you go to GDC and watch people with Powerpoint presentations about games or at best videos of games.
But Jon is doing something different — he’s asking some of us to actually have games on hand, and he’s going to provide every person who walks into the room an installer so they can play the games as we talk about them.