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Haiku Winners and Honorable Mentions

FujiThe winner of our first and maybe only Haiku competition has been selected! First off thank you to the 16 people who entered over 27 different Haiku. We appreciate the enthusiasm as the prizes were not as good as a recently repaired Ferrari Enzo with free Gizmondo in the glove box. The theme of the Haiku Competition was to have a person submit one that reflected their personal experiences at or in relation to the GDC. Drum roll please - and the winner is Jesse Schell of Carnegie Mellon / Schell Games.

Read on for his winning entry and other runners-up...

If you are stickler fo knowing more details click here to read our previous post on the competition.

Winning entry submitted by Jesse Schell of Carnegie Mellon / Schell Games:

T-Shirts and piercings
Scruffy glazed insomniacs
At last I am home!

Runners-up:

Annual absense
Has caused career turmoil
So I must attend
- Michael Russell, Ritual Entertainment

Five days of learning...
I leave, full of ideas!
Friends, see you next year!
- Teresa Karr

Other entries included:

Vast hordes of game devs
Swarm lobby bars to talk shop
Hey, is that Will Wright?

The keynote speeches
Lead to a renewed sense of
Purpose for our games

The featured classes
#define our purpose: Coding
Experiences

The panels bring out
The curmudgeon and the sheep
To battle it out

Casual Games Summit
Connects the hardcore with mom
To bring fun to all

IGF: Where next
Year's ripped-off gameplay is seen
Today in the flesh

GDC Awards:
We celebrate each other
But only one wins

So many classes...
So much information, but
Why ignore testing?

Wii or PS3
which to choose for November
I guess its the Wii

Game developers
with the soundness of great minds
shape the fate of consoles

why do poetry
judges need address info?
identity theft!

Hunting new craze
Future coming so fast
Stop and learn it

Tall top hat – soft voice
Cutting edge of storycraft
Ernest blew my mind!

Hello Golden Gate!
Despite your grandeur I miss
Original Joe’s.

cramped lives in recess
playful expanse fulfilling
living room conference

many cool people
and new game design concepts
one week is too short

Bright-shirted CA
You stopped me from getting lunch
Where is room J3?

Badgeless. Ejected.
Is the session dead to me?
Audio CDs!

loud busy crazy
off to another session
i'll find you later

Technology sea
With a sky filled of lectures
I play GDC

Will Wright unveils Spore
late night networking parties
Expo demos rock

Roughly carpeted hallways
Poorly packed lunches
I go every year.

GDC Haiku
Counting out the syllables
Making little sense