When he’s not busy making amazing videogames, Adam ‘atomic’ Saltsman keeps himself occupied by creating game development frameworks, rock climbing and developing his skills as a responsible dog owner. More recently, Adam has been busy announcing the amazing project that he’s going to be doing with us at GameCity this year. He gives the (almost) full low-down to Simon Parkin over at Gamasutra:

Saltsman has embraced this alternative approach to a games conference, and is returning in 2010 to host a workshop in which he creates a game live based on ideas provided by children in the audience. “At GDC last year I built a little iPhone platformer in an hour in front of a crowd, while my friend Eric talked Canabalt and App Store numbers. It sort of worked, but I’ve been trying to think about how to do live game making again but better.
He added: “This idea for the GameCity session originated in my nephew Nate’s notebook. He has one of those 500-page lined notebooks you can get from the grocery store, and every single page of it front and back has a different game idea doodled on it. He can go through the whole book and tell you about each one, and when he runs out of pages he grabs a marker and starts coming up with new stuff. It’s all insane too. I think he was five years old at the time.”

We’re hugely excited about this, and think you should be too. The best part is – this isn’t even the whole story…