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Gaming Revolution

Our second guest speaker at TEDxLeeds2009 was Charles Cecil, leading the Entertainment segment of the evening’s programme.

Managing Director of Revolution Software – creators of Beneath a Steel Sky and the Broken Sword series – Charles is also part of the BAFTA Interactive board and on the board of Game Republic, a consortium of regional games developers

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{ Charles Cecil }
15 September 2010
Entertainment • Games
Guest Speaker • TEDxLeeds2009
Videogames

A Three-Minute Story Of Mixed Emoticons

With the opening Technology session of TEDxLeeds2009 dominated by heavy-hitters Kevin Kelly and Norman Lewis, we chose to set the opening of the Entertainment session to a more light-hearted tone.

Our second screening of the evening was the poet Rives, a regular on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, Rives shared a three-minute typographic fairy tale that was short…and bittersweet.

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{ Rives }
15 September 2010
Entertainment • Funny
Poetry • TEDTalks
TEDxLeeds2009