Started the day with sausage and egg muffin and orange juice from the station Macdonalds - I preferred it to the hotel breakfast.

On the off chance approached Charles Cecil of Revolution Games in the UK area and he gave a great impromptu interview! Great guy, very friendly and approachable, full of interesting words. The interview was so good it gave me a big problem - it needs to be published by itself not as as part of a composite interview. So my plan of a composite interview really didn't work, I would have been wiser to ask questions tailored to each interviewee not go for a set list of questions.

I really stuffed up meeting with Jan Kavan, he kindly texted me to suggest a sensible location to meet and I tried to text back - three times only managing to send empty messages! I shall have to find a four-year old child to show me how to use my phone. And then I managed to find something which wasn't the fruit bar to wait at . . . drat drat drat. Jan and Lukas Medek of CBESoftware gave me a demo of J.U.L.I.A. - this game deserves to do very well.

(Agustín's help was significant - he told me Jonas Kyratzes was here, as well as relaying messages to Jan and encouraging me to try Charles Cecil.)

I interviewed Jan Theysen of King Art Games after short demo of BOUT 2.

I met Laney Berry of Classroom Graffiti in a dampened beer garden, wasn't sure it was her but few there with red hair! Didn't recognise her from her Facebook picture, but I don't think I'll be any good given an identity parade. I did take to Gamescom pictures of people to help find them.

Florian Emmerich and Ragnar Tornquist demoed Dreamfall Chapters from Red Thread Games. A living game world.

In the business halls there was quite a number of Chinese and Korean booths, I'm quite into Korean culture at the moment and tried to discuss Hallyu with with someone at a Korean booth, but she lived in Germany and knew less about new Korean films like The Pirates than I did! But I'm not interested in football or cricket so this was a little myopic to think every Korean is interested in everything Korean.

I descended twice into the hell of Hall 10.1 in search of Jonas Kyratzes. Crowded dark formless young roaming swirling around platforms with loud voices blaring out. Chaos clash of images lights videos. If I had been Orpheus then there were plenty of cosplay Eurydices to choose from. But no trace of Jonas Kyratzes. He I found out later was in the more civilised business area.

I ate out this evening at a historic 12th century Gasthaus, great olde-worlde style inside. Very nicely cooked calf's liver, followed by vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. The mixing of the hot chocolate and ice cream reminded me of the treat for school dinners so long ago - the way the white and dark blended into so many strands of colour. It also reminded me of Tabitha's fur (she's a chocolate colour point). Walked back past the Dom, the church bells ringing into one another, sounding like an alien machine.