Comments on: On Pitching Ideas http://www.hiwiller.com/2008/03/20/on-pitching-ideas/ Zack Hiwiller's Blog on Game Design and The Industry Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:48:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: zack http://www.hiwiller.com/2008/03/20/on-pitching-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-159 zack Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:41:37 +0000 http://www.hiwiller.com/2008/03/20/on-pitching-ideas/#comment-159 Ah good, then we agree! When I have presentations I want to pass around, I either make two sets of slides or one set of slides I use for the presentation and then a handout (which is what I am doing for this one). I hope you didn't think I was being unfair, but your talk was late in the week and I was pretty drained sp when I saw sixty text-heavy slides, my eyes rolled back in my head. :-) Ah good, then we agree! When I have presentations I want to pass around, I either make two sets of slides or one set of slides I use for the presentation and then a handout (which is what I am doing for this one). I hope you didn’t think I was being unfair, but your talk was late in the week and I was pretty drained sp when I saw sixty text-heavy slides, my eyes rolled back in my head. :-)

]]> By: Damion Schubert http://www.hiwiller.com/2008/03/20/on-pitching-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Damion Schubert Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:27:24 +0000 http://www.hiwiller.com/2008/03/20/on-pitching-ideas/#comment-155 Re; the wordy presentation. I'm personally in favor of giving less wordy presentations, and I prefer those that have only a word or two with an image, so viewers focus more on the speaker. However, for this talk, I purposefully went with a 'self-explainer' format - a lot of people like to mail the presentation to co-workers, and I wanted to be sure that, for the most part, it didn't need me to be delivering it to be useful. I'm glad you enjoyed the talk, though! Re; the wordy presentation.

I’m personally in favor of giving less wordy presentations, and I prefer those that have only a word or two with an image, so viewers focus more on the speaker. However, for this talk, I purposefully went with a ‘self-explainer’ format – a lot of people like to mail the presentation to co-workers, and I wanted to be sure that, for the most part, it didn’t need me to be delivering it to be useful.

I’m glad you enjoyed the talk, though!

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