"This panel is like a group of doctors standing around a brain dead patient talking about what they can do to restore her," said the legendary developer [He's talking about Chris Crawford here, people --Fussbett], whose long been on the fringes of the industry and is pushing the concept of "interactive storytelling". "But there's nothing inside but green goo. The most charitable thing I can say is 'Rest in peace'". Then he sat back, looking slightly smug and quite pleased with himself, while the audience almost literally boo'ed and hissed. During the later Q&A, a few fellows who supposed themselves young firebrands, guys far too young to have ever seen that screen of chilling text that told us there were no winners in a nuclear war, had the temerity to pretend to school Mr. Crawford.

The session broke out into a raucous round of arguing, complete with a loudly proclaimed sense of self-importance, plenty of polite jabs, and lots of people talking over each other.