“Don’t waste this. Keep everyone guessing. Make me proud.” When Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser spoke at our second festival in 2013, the Mac software company had just started venturing into games by funding the studio behind Firewatch, an indie blockbuster that launched Panic’s games publishing business and, eventually, the Playdate handheld console.
See the artwork in this talk, and more, at Cabel’s new Wes Cook Archive:
https://wescook.art/
Cabel’s XOXO 2013 talk: https://ift.tt/p7Wuzd9
His excellent blog: https://cabel.com/
Panic: https://panic.com/
Playdate: https://play.date/
Follow Cabel on Mastodon: https://ift.tt/dIp98iC
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Recorded in August 2024 at XOXO, an experimental festival in Portland, Oregon for independent artists and creators who work online. For more, visit https://xoxofest.com.
Video production by No Sunrise Wasted
Captions by White Coat Captioning
Intro music: “For Her” by Lidérc, from Pixabay