Platform 2010 Gaming Show

We attended the first gaming showcase by Platform in Hull. The event is held at the Hull Truck Theatre, and consists of seminars and stalls ran by gaming and new media company's.

The first seminar we attended was on copyright law and protecting your intellectual property, from this I've learnt to send confidentiality agreements to publishers or any who externally involved with my work who may exploit my designs, ideas or finished pieces of work.
I think this was valuable as I may be able to make use of it in the future when distributing or publishing my work.

Another seminar I found interesting was on character creation and building, where we were told not to base characters on real people as reality isn't always as interesting and dramatic enough. We where also told to look at star signs and horoscopes to find personality traits and to look at all elements about a character before even writing their script such as Character X moved from France when his parents divorced, and this sparked X behavior and X trait.

Some other seminars I found un helpful/ rather irrelevant were by Kingston Communications and Hull University this is because they were presenting in effect a 20 minute advert about their service or their courses which when you look at the 2010 platform website the whole event promotes development for gamers.