The big screen showed for a fraction of a second something that spelled "naughty"

Mar 6, 2007 10:51 GMT  ·  By

Giving a keynote at the Independent Game Summit at GDC, Jeff Minter, llama game designer misplaced the game Gridrunner++. As he was flipping through the folders on the laptop, everyone paying attention to the big screen saw, for maybe a fraction of a second, something that looked like a folder entitled ?naughty.?

Insert Credit's News ?Jeff Minter naughty scandal shocker? tells the story: ?[Minter] was showing the audience his old games. He misplaced the game Gridrunner++ ...so he was searching through his file tree-exposing for a moment on the large screen a folder entitled 'naughty.' That's my greatest fear for presenting, let me tell you! Luckily the folder wasn't opened, and only displayed for a fraction of a second...?

Now what do you think a folder named ?naughty? could possibly hide? What? Pr0n? How could you even think that? NOOO! I don't want to listen. Na na na naaa na na! Hey, who says everything has to be sex related? Ok, you've probably realized that my double personality has started to kick in so I'm going to stop now. But really, what else could a ?naughty? folder hide except something related to sex? Who names a folder that contains family pictures naughty? That's right, so it couldn't have been family pictures. Ruling that one out, it leaves porn.

Good thing Minter didn't also accidentally open the folder. Then we wouldn't just be guessing it was porn, the title would have read ?Porn at GDC? for sure. Still trying to guess what else that folder could have been hiding? Stop it, will you? It's obvious: ?not family pictures.?