{"id":905,"date":"2013-07-21T23:44:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T13:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=905"},"modified":"2013-07-25T15:59:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T05:59:27","slug":"reports-from-the-road-pax-australia-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/features\/reports-from-the-road-pax-australia-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports from the road: PAX Australia Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today wound down the festival, and unlike yesterday we managed to get ourselves into some panels. First up was the Penny Arcade Q&A, which had a bunch of great questions from the audience. The one that stuck with me?<\/p>\n

A scientist, who got up and wanted Jerry & Mike to name his equipment that was set to fire into space soon to detect alien life. After composing themselves and conferring, Mike’s suggestion: \u201cit finds worlds, so I guess we should call it Worldfinder.\u201d Jerry offered a more high-concept name: it’s straining out the useless data from the useful, like pasta from the water. We should call it the Sieve.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mike’s thoughts? \u201c….nah. Worldfinder.\u201d<\/p>\n

They settled on the WorldSieve.<\/p>\n

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After that, I hit the expo floor for the last time. Today I spent a bunch of time over at the indie booths. The most impressive to me were Framed<\/a> and Wolfdozer<\/a>. Both really awesome Australian indie games that showed a lot of promise. Framed in particular is something I’ve never seen before; you rearrange a graphic novel’s panels to help the protagonist move though the story. Very fun and gave me one of those treasured \u201caha, I’m smart!\u201d moments.<\/p>\n

Lastly I saw Jeff Cannata’s panel, which was entertaining but perhaps a touch too long. After that we checked in briefly at the Omegathon final round (giant Jenga) but decided to call it a day.<\/p>\n

PAX Australia 2014 was absolutely confirmed in the Q&A. Mark it on the calendar. I can’t wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penny Arcade Q&A, indie games, Jeff Cannata, the Omegathon & the end.\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}