There are two important things that happened yesterday and two days ago. First, my family (and most of Indonesian) celebrated Id. We phoned our family and wish them happy days.

Second, Al-Gore won the Nobel price for his Inconvenient Truth. I have watched this documentary twice and I’m going to watch it again tonight. What I like from Al Gore is his concern for the environment and also how he does the presentation.

It’s important to have a good and attractive slide but more important to have a good stage performance (voice intonation, humor, and body language). Presentation is a show, a stage performance, and not about showing your slides hoping the audience will read all the bullet points on your slide.

I feel that bullet-point-powerpoint-style presentation is really *ugly* but unfortunately most of the game developer still use it. You can see this bullet-point-type presentation during the game festival or a game conference 🙁

It’s not their fault actually since that’s what they have learnt from the university 👿

One of my favourite resources to improve my presentation skill is www.presentationzen.com. I learn a lot from this website and I highly recommend everyone to check it 😉

Which one is better?
source: presentationzen.com

We need to change and leave those bullet-point-powerpoint-style slide behind. There is nothing wrong with the Microsoft Powerpoint (or the bullet point) but we really need to do something to make our presentation more intereseting and entertainment. The game industry is an entertainment industry, how come we’re still presenting our product just like a boring software or scientific product?