A few months ago Mythic’s Creative Director Paul Barnett and myself went into a London bar, set a tape rolling and got mildly smashed. Only now do I dare return to these hours of tape to transcribe a series of topic-by-topic interviews. We pick up where we left off last time, with Paul about to explain why he went to Futurism-festival LIFT rather than this industry’s mecca, the Game Developer’s Conference. And it’s much more fun than him hating San Francisco.

Paul Barnett: So… why did I go to LIFT not GDC?

Kieron Gillen: Tell me.

Barnett: So – I’ve just come back from LIFT. Which is ran by a friend of mine called Laurent [Haug], who has this idea that we need to have a social conference in Europe. It’s very, very European. It’s all Swedish and French and crazy… I don’t know what nationality Laurent is. Imagine this bit is edited and the correct nationality of Laurent was put in.

KG: “Somewhere in Europe”

Barnett: Some kind of Europe Scando-wegian. [He’s Swiss – Boringly Factual Ed] Him and a couple friends got together and ran a conference. It’s right on the cusp between Hippy Nonsense meets interesting teetering on commercial. They asked me to come along. I watched some of the videos which they had online, which are all amateur shot – put together with a lot of energy and excitement, but they really needed a film crew. This year they had that – Swiss TV went and did it. I agreed to talk on it. It actually conflicted with GDC, so there was a choice – do I go to GDC, or do I go to this crazy European thing which no-one is interested in?