Comments on Hit Self-Destruct: Print Is Dead

Do lots of papers get handed out at GDC, then? Or...

2009-04-01T21:43:00.000+13:00

Do lots of papers get handed out at GDC, then? Or were people automatically on "no thanks, hawker" mode? It sounds sad that very few were willing to take the Thumbs paper off you guys.

Still, at least you have that brilliant snap of Tim Schaefer reading one on the Idle Thumbs homepage. Small compensation I'm sure, but hopefully enough to validate your valiant efforts (and, no doubt, the expense).

From the photo, it looks superb.

Were the attendees really that averse to accepting...

2009-03-31T01:10:00.000+13:00

Were the attendees really that averse to accepting something that was FREE?! It comes across like there was a collective "Ewww, print!" reaction - if that is accurate then it really is a sad day.

I must have seriously missed this, never saw one o...

2009-03-29T08:04:00.000+13:00

I must have seriously missed this, never saw one of your papers!

But I will be reading the articles of those you printed in it with agusto - Print is Dead! Long live Print! You made me read the things by posting about how you did a printed item with those things in them.

I actually should have been more active distributing flyers for the IGDA Preservation SIG. I've learnt my lesson, will do so next year :)

Now if only I could get something inside all those GDC bags...

This is the most bleak thing I've read so far abou...

2009-03-27T14:09:00.000+13:00

This is the most bleak thing I've read so far about print media's current predicament, and I just got finished interviewing a game developer who couldn't get one out of the 90% of major holding companies they met with to work out amongst themselves whether or not to license a newsgame platform they'd developed...

The question I have is, if you'd just compiled the articles you re-printed as an RSS feed, and then emailed the feed to everyone attending... would they have read it then? I'm afraid that maybe more than print is dead.