Never Mind The Polygons 7 quickly packed out the room at Koba, Brighton, on the 26th July. Angela Fenge of Zoe Mode and Dan Marchant of EM Media faced off against Nick Burton from Rare and Rusalka Clarke from Black Rock Studio - but once again, we forgot to keep track of the score and the audience probably won.

Topics discussed included marketing and public relations in the wake of recent scandals and controversy, studio branding, and tax breaks. However, the highlight of the evening was a spirited defense of casual games by Angela in response to the question "Are casual games a threat to traditional, hardcore videogames?"

Absolutely not, was the answer. Casual games are expanding the market, not stealing market share from other forms of videogame.
 
A full set of photos is on Flickr.

Once again, we were kindly sponsored by bluegfx and Autodesk.

Polygons will be settling back into Friar Gate Studios in Derby this September; if you haven't already, join the mailing list to receive news of the next event.

The Next Never Mind The Polygons is going to be in Brighton on the last day of the Develop Conference, Thursday 26th of July, 18:00 - 20:00. The panel this time will be:

Toby Barnes (Pixel-Lab) as the host
Dan Marchant (The Obscure Consultancy) as regular team captain
Nick Burton (Rare) as stand in captain
Rusalka Clarke (Disney Interactive Studios) as guest
Angela Fenge (Zoë Mode) as guest two.

The venue is Koba in the centre of Brighton. (Google Map)

This is open to all delegates of Develop as well as all local game developers. A full press release for this event in doc format can be downloaded here. This is once again sponsored by bluegfx and Autodesk.

We will also be keeping up our quarterly Polygons schedule in Derby, with the next one to be announced soon.