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| 02.14.2007If Gamecock is G.O.D. retreaded, forget it.
Gathering of Developers (G.O.D) began life as an inspiration and ended as an embarrassment. They put a brilliant manifesto on the web promising to do right by developers, which was all to the good. Then they took a booth to E3 that was so outrageously sexist and exploitive that even the E3 management (which at the time was pretty damn tolerant of barely-clad booth babes) wouldn't let it in the door, so G.O.D. had to set up their pole dancers in a parking lot across the street. Female indies who might have been attracted to G.O.D. by the manifesto were firmly told that it was a boy's club.
Sure, the stunt attracted vast numbers of sex-starved young men to the tent, but few of them were buyers for the big retailers. Amazingly enough - and I know this idea will startle some people - it takes more than pole dancers at a trade show to make a publishing company successful.
So now we have Gamecock, founded by the same people. That choice of name may be intended to suggest the fun of watching chickens peck each others' eyes out, but it was obviously selected for its other connotations as well, and once again, females are clearly not part of the vision. If Gamecock is just G.O.D. all over again, skip it. Why should anyone do business with someone whose judgment is that poor? -Ernest Adams
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