i’ve been waiting for AGES to share this #xoxofest talk with people who weren’t there. i can’t tell you what it’s about without spoiling it. just watch it (but maybe skip the first minute or two, they follow a brief recap that isn’t included)
“Don’t waste this. Keep everyone guessing. Make me proud.” When Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser spoke at our second festival in 2013, the Mac software company had just started venturing into games by funding the studio behind Firewatch, an indie blockbuster that launched Panic’s games publishing business and, eventually, the Playdate handheld console. See the artwork in this talk, and more, at Cabel’s new Wes Cook Archive: https://wescook.art/ Cabel's XOXO 2013 talk: https://xoxofest.com/2013/videos/cabel-sasser/ His excellent blog: https://cabel.com/ Panic: https://panic.com/ Playdate: https://play.date/ Follow Cabel on Mastodon: https://social.panic.com/@cabel — Recorded in August 2024 at XOXO, an experimental festival in Portland, Oregon for independent artists and creators who work online. For more, visit https://xoxofest.com. Video production by No Sunrise Wasted Captions by White Coat Captioning Intro music: "For Her" by Lidérc, from Pixabay
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