London Ron Gilbert meeting (after report)

[edmundito]

I think CJ/Pumaman/God/baby/Chris should go. He needs to talk about making engines and such with the father of SCUMM himself (AND STEAL HIS IDEAS!!!!1). Ron's working on a new thing (kind of) called Sauce (which is in a way the sequel to SCUMM), which you can read about it on his website under the ntry "SDL".

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Also, a couple of dumb things:

First of all, it's LIQUOR.
And second, British people say "Y'all"? I bet it sounds totally different from the American "Y'all">

[Renal Shutdown]

1. If CJ isn't there, it's obviously just a couple of dorks/nerds/geeks meeting by accident.
2. I have a tendancy to drift into a southern twang, whilst speaking. Sadly, I can sing a Badfinger song in the same way.

EDIT:
No. I'm not finding a place that does karaoke.

EDIT 2:
BAM. Remember I'm actually from London..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/insideldn/insideout/pieandmash.shtml
LICKER.

[Privateer Puddin']

Floor and 6am kickout is fine if i can meet ron gilbert

southern twang eh? :p

[Pumaman]

When is he in the country? If it overlapped with Brittens then it would be very easy to organise meeting him since people would already be in London anyway.

[Privateer Puddin']

I will be in London for a couple of weeks

Let's try for the weekend of May 7-8.

Couple of weeks in may it would seem, too early for brittens i would have thought..

[AGA]

Very soon too. Organisation will be needed sharpish if we wanted to do it (and yes, I'd be in).

[Renal Shutdown]

My vote would go to a squad of Brittens Expeditionary Force style commandoes, sorting something out with a long time frame on short notice.  So we can all bask in Mr. G's reflected glory for the longest possible period of time.

In the meantime, I'm contacting him now, to find out how long he's going to be available.

I'll be back with any info that I can gather, once I've gathered it.

[Renal Shutdown]

I will be London for 2 weeks, although I am planning a 4 or 5 day trip to Amsterdam, but I don't know when yet.
Since I don't know the area at all, picking a place to meet where we can all get some food and drink and talk is a little hard.Ã,  Please feel free to suggest a place and I'll run it by everyone who responded with interest, and if it gets a solid "eh", then we'll meet there.Ã,  It doesn't have to be in London proper either.Ã,  I'm staying about 20 minutes outside of the city, not sure what it's called.

I am flexible and am willing to do what ever works for everyone else.
Ron

I'm currently trying to think of a suitable place.Ã,  More when known.

EDIT:
Also, again. ASAP response time required.  Aggie's in.  Yuffie's a definite possibility.  Who else can actually make it? If it's a large number, I'll have to plan the venue accordingly.  Also, give me a list of foods you won't eat, incase I have to make a restaurant/eaterie decision.  No point making plans just so I find out someone can't eat a certain thing.

[Yufshter]

I'm definitely going. Can we have a definite date so I can book my flight? Either the 6th or the 8th? Not the 7th?

[edmundito]

Ron said May 7-8 weekend.

Btw, Yufster, did you forget your account login and password? 

[Yufshter]

No, I'm just lazy.



Goddamn I fancy Nick Rhodes so fucking much.

[Yufshter]

PS I'm vegetarian.

[scotch]

If enough other AGSers show up I might go.

[magintz]

damn count me in, just a hop onto the tube stop and I can be anywhere within london

Just gotta get back home one weekend right in the middle of my exams, but RON GILBERT!!!!!!!1

[Pumaman]

I'd go just for a laugh, and also to float the idea that Space Quest really was a lot better than Monkey Island.

[edmundito]

Heh...

Btw, Chris, I've been meaning to ask... do you even own monkey island? have you even played it?

[Scummbuddy]

you know he's a sierra kid.

I want CJ to go to talk to Ron and say "whats an adventure game? GTA?"

[Yutzster]

Can we get a definite list?

[Kweepa]

I can't believe Ron Gilbert agreed to meet you crazed loons.
That doesn't sound like the action of a grumpy gamer to me.

Tell him to quit frigging around and go make an awesome new adventure franchise.

[Meowster]

Seriously though, are we going to make good use of this time and actually have an insightful discussion about game development? Rather than discuss the secret of Monkey Island?