How do you stay ahead of the curve when you’ve been surfing the wave for 40 years?
Recorded live at Climb 26 as Andy Wood received the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award, this is a conversation with a man who has been present at the exact moment new ideas became whole new industries ... from the early days of the UK games industry, through computer vision and digital humans, to the AI tools reshaping creativity today.
Andy takes me back to the beginning: an adopted boy, endlessly curious, secretly taught to tell the time by the builders across the road. That curiosity carried him from making games like FIFA and Mortal Kombat ... one of them scored by Brian May ... to markerless motion capture that could do what Gollum needed without the dots, and a demo of Peter Gabriel he used to pitch James Cameron for Avatar. We talk about the game that still haunts him, the Nintendo friend who told him to hang a brass plaque reading “we make games, stupid,” and why six exits taught him to leave at exactly the right moment.
A conversation about staying curious, shipping things that are actually finished, and knowing when a chapter is done.
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