Polygons #12 Report

Brighton hosted Polygons for the second time this year, this time in the super-swank Hilton Metropole alongside the Develop conference. 60 or so developers were on hand to see Nate Wells, Mark Rein, Jonathan Smith, Margaret Robertson and Iain Simons lie their asses off to each other.
They played four rounds of videogame themed Would I Lie To You, with Jonathan, Margaret and Iain playing a blinder around Peter Molyneux: Absolutely noone in the room thought he'd said he wanted to make a sports game recently, but apparently it's true. Less true may be rumours that it's a football game about everything that goes on off the pitch, and that the ball is your friend.
During the night we also learned that Nate Wells formerly studied underwater archaology, and Mark Rein got more stick from the panel than we expected. Fortunately, he's a very good sport.
Photos of the night are on Flickr. Everyone there was also wowed by the new Duke Nukem E3 trailer.
Polygons #12
For those of you who will be at the Develop conference, there's going to be another Polygons in Brighton, on Wednesday the 30th. As well as the usual raft of interesting indie game videos running in the background, our panel this time is stellar:
Nate Wells (2K Boston)
Mark Rein (Epic Games)
Jonathan Smith (TT Games)
Margaret Robertson (Channel 4, Lookspring, BBC, former editor of EDGE)
Iain Simons (GameCity)
It'll be in Conference Room 5 at 18:30, on Wednesday the 30th. Come down for some heckling and debate.
We'd like to thank Rare, Autodesk and blugfx for making NMTP possible.



