cross posted from the Playstation Blog:

“As many of you have seen, Sony’s got a new brand message that we all believe in here at Santa Monica Studio. The ethos of make.believe is simple: believe that anything you can imagine, you can make real. We’ve had the fortune to work with thatgamecompany, an incredibly talented group of young minds with fresh ideas and complete conviction to follow their imagination. They’ve given the gaming world some of the most original and satisfying experiences to date, and we are very proud to be working with them. In the spirit of make.believe, check out the story of where they came from and how they succeeded. Enjoy!”

thatgamecompany will be joining approximately 16,000 of our closest friends in the game development community this week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Here’s our schedule of events:

Tues, 3/9 4:15pm – Kellee Santiago will be addressing the Education Summit in her talk, Leadership – A 21st Century Skill.

Wed, 3/10 10am – Kellee Santiago and Robin Hunicke will be talking to the Independent Summit crew about How to Manage an Exploratory Development Process

Wed, 3/10 4:15pm – Robin Hunicke will be participating in the Indie Game Rant!

Wednesday night, 7pm – late: TGC will be hanging out at the GAMMA IV/INDIE GAMES party at The Mezzanine. Come out and check out incredible games and incredible music!

Thursday 6:00pm – The Game Developers Choice Awards will be streamed live on GameSpot’s website!

Fri, 3/12 9:00am – Kellee Santiago will be joining the GDC Microtalks, “Play With Us.”

Fri, 3/12 4:30pm – Jenova Chen will be challenging Kim Swift’s crown in the Game Design Challenge!

*All times are in PST.

It’s been awhile since the Flower GameCity event, but the local Nottingham Trent student rag just published this sweet interview with Robin, who was over there enjoying the awesomeness that is the UK and GameCity. I wouldn’t bring up the fact that it happened awhile ago, except that she ruminates on enjoying the student vibe around Nottingham:

“I absolutely love the idea of being a student because you can spend your time doing what you please. You can follow your whimsy and your curiosity, which is critical. You should enjoy the time that you have as a student and experiment as much as possible. I think, a lot of the time, people spend their time as a student worrying about being able to make something commercial and successful. But when you’re a student you can make whatever you like and you should use that time to investigate strange and new territory.”

Yeah, that worked out pretty well for us.

Click here to read the full interview.

thatgamecompany is participating in IGN’s fundraiser for Haiti Habitat for Humanity. You can buy this signed Flower poster, and help out the citizens of Haiti, all in one step!

Click here to visit the Ebay page.

Global Game Jam™ (GGJ) was established in 2009 as an IGDA event with great success and media attention. Lives were changed, jobs found, ideas sold, collaborations and opportunities abound.  GGJ brings together talented individuals and teams from around the globe and rallies them around a central theme, for which they have 48 hours to create their game.

This is a great event, and a great way to meet new developers in your area. To find out where it’s happening near you, visit http://www.globalgamejam.org/Locations.