{"id":311,"date":"2012-08-10T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2012\/08\/10\/edinburgh-interactive-conference\/"},"modified":"2012-08-10T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T15:28:00","slug":"edinburgh-interactive-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/edinburgh-interactive-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Interactive Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Me and my team try to attend <a href=\"http:\/\/edinburghinteractive.co.uk\/\">Edinburgh Interactive Conference<\/a> most years, given that it takes place at a relatively quiet time in the year. I attended the conference yesterday, and Hilary and Caroline will attend today and tomorrow. Attendees at the conference include representatives of Google (who also gave a presentation), Channel 4, Scottish Television and the UK Government.<\/p>\n<p>The conference focuses on computer games. The keynote, by Seamus Blackley, who was the man behind the development of the Xbox, was good. Seamus&#8217; message to developers was simple: concentrate on the &#8220;fun&#8221; (quality of your software) and not the &#8220;junk&#8221; (the business models). That talk was the highlight of the day for me but the subsequent talks were also interesting. I particularly enjoyed the talk entitled: &#8220;Are computer games art?&#8221;.&nbsp;The conference continues today and tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>SQA has led the way in the creation of games-related qualifications, and has a varied portfolio of awards, which now includes NPAs, NCs, HNCs and HNDs ranging from SCQF Levels 4-8. <a href=\"mailto:hilary.weir@sqa.org.uk\">Contact Hilary<\/a> for more information about NPAs and NCs in this area; <a href=\"mailto:caroline.douglas@sqa.org.uk\">contact Caroline<\/a> for the HN awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me and my team try to attend Edinburgh Interactive Conference most years, given that it takes place at a relatively quiet time in the year. I attended the conference yesterday, and Hilary and Caroline will attend today and tomorrow. Attendees at the conference include representatives of Google (who also gave a presentation), Channel 4, Scottish Television and the UK Government. The conference focuses on computer games. The keynote, by Seamus Blackley, who was the man behind the development of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}