A 360|Conferences event
Join us this week for the next in our series of 360|iDev speaker chats. Rod will be presenting on “Creating a Physics Game in 40 minutes with Cocos2D and Box2D)”
He’ll be answering any questions you’ve got for him!
If you saw the announcement of BOF sessions, you know we have a wiki we use for the ad hoc stuff around the conference.
We updated the wiki for one more bit of ad hoc. Activities.
If you’re planning a trip to the mothership or hitting a specific bar one night, or a movie on Wednesday or lunch on Saturday before the conference, whatever. Post it on the activities page of the wiki.
This way folks looking for the fun, can find it easily ;) It truly does suck to have to hunt for fun :)
On the main page of the wiki is also a few links for hotel searches in the area. If you missed the room block, shame on you, but we don’t want ya sleepin’ on the street, so check those links for other options.
For those that don’t know what a Birds Of a Feather session is, it’s basically an ad hoc session organized by attendees or speakers, or anyone really for that matter (sorry can’t walk in off the street, gotta at least be an attendee).
Maybe it’s a Sci fi meetup or how to best create app icons, or a round table chat about the benefits of core data… whatever you want, literally. We’ve got a wiki set up with a BOFs page.
Simply go edit the page with your topic and your name. Then promote it of course. Once the listing is populated we’ll make noise too.
BOFs will take place from about 6:30 – 7:30. There’s time to enjoy the appetizers and beer and Rockband, then hop into a BOF, before heading to points unknown for the rest of the evening :)
It’s not too late to register, 360|iDev is coming up fast, don’t miss the most awesome collection of community awesomeness in one place, register now!
We haven’t really made much noise about this, but thought it was time to do so. We’ve got some awesome friends in publishing! What other event will you have O’Reilly, Manning, and Apress raffling books, giving away goodies, etc. Where else will so many authors of so many books be under on roof?
I think it’s a testament to the awesomeness of the iPhone developer community that so many publishers are
1. publishing iPhone books, and
2. coming together to support an event that brings the community together.
360|iDev isn’t owned, or financially supported by any publishing companies or anything like that, we don’t favor one company’s authors over another. That’s how it should be, and our publishing partners seem to agree.
W hope that our relationship with these awesome companies grows stronger as we do more events with them!
At 360|iDev we’ll have books and authors from these great publishers
We’re just starting this initiative, so keep an eye on the apps page for frequent updates.
I’ll admit, this idea wasn’t ours, but we love it. We tell you often how incredible our speakers are, and their bios typically tell you about some of the apps they’ve built, but not always.
So from now on, and going back retroactively, we’re going to maintain a 360|iDev speaker apps page. We’ll organize it by last name, and indicate under the speakers name their “Class” ie. San Jose 2009, Denver 2009, San Jose 2010, etc. so the page will grow. It’ll be a place where attendees can see the calibre of our speakers, and hopefully a place our speakers can get a bit more exposure for their apps. We’ll display the app icon, name, and link to iTunes.
Hopefully this will help attendees and potential attendees (and even sponsors) realize the awesomeness of our speakers. They’re pros! and deserve as much recognition as we can give them!
I posted about what you do and don’t get, and we’ve done more posts than I can count on the overall vibe, and the parties etc. So I wanted to take a minute to just post some pictures of the past 360|iDev events. I grabbed these off of flickr. The technical content you get at 360|iDev is beyond compare, truly, feel free to ask anyone who’s attended, but that’s just part of the story. The rest is the community of iPhone developers geeking out, sharing stories, code, forming companies, finding work, etc.
It occurred to me, that it might be a good idea to make it clear what does/doesn’t happen at 360|iDev for those who might not know.
If you haven’t registered for 360|iDev, you’re missing out. This is a quote from past speaker Jake Behrens, “@360iDev Thank you! The conference put my life in a direction I never imagined I’d be in. You rock!”
That’s high praise and exactly what we’re trying to do. We want to be an event where great things can and do happen, and we think we do a pretty good job of that :)
What started as an idea during 360|Flex Denver, and executed with a day’s planning and work, is now “a thing”
We’re pleased to announce that 360|iDev San Jose, will host the Touch Arcade Game Jam!
The Game Jam in Denver, the brain child of Noel Llopis, who organized it, and stayed up all night to “run” things, was a huge hit, with more games being created in 10 hours, than I thought humanly possible. Touch Arcade has a great write up that links to a few others, and after Denver Touch Arcade approached us about making the Game Jam a more permanent and visible feature of the conference, which worked for us, because this kind of hacking is what we love!
Some of the projects from the Denver Game Jam are available in the store! You should check them out!
Hippo High Dive (iTunes Link) From our pals Imangi Studios
Gravity Sling (iTunes Link) from Riptide Games
for Example!
With Touch Arcade sponsoring the Game Jam, it’s gonna be epic. we’ve got time to plan for it, so it’s gonna rock, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we see 2x as many games come the Wednesday Game Jam Review.
Touch Arcade is awesome, and we’ve wanted to work with them since we started 360|iDev, so it’s great to finally get a chance! I can’t wait!
Don’t miss the Game Jam, sponsored by Touch Arcade, your game idea could be launched in a night! Register now, before the early tickets sell out, and save $100!
Don’t miss the best iPhone conference in the world!
We had a great conversation with Chris from DUB the other day (I’ve been on the iPhone beta for a few days, and using the app for a couple of weeks)
The idea isn’t super new, it’s a business card, sans business card. What’s novel (at least to me) is that you can create groups (perfect for events) and everyone who registers for that event could (in the future) automatically get a DUB ID. Then at the event you just look at the group and see who’s there and if you want, you add them and send them your contact info. There’s
no spamminess to it, you have to approve all inbound requests, and such, but it’s a cool way to connect with people at an event and share contact info with.
What I like is that it’s not a new contact app. It pipes all contacts (and updates) to your contacts app. Which is nice cuz I keep my contacts app and Google in sync, so a new app, would be the suck. Anytime someone I know updates their info, my address is book is up to date. Think of it as Plaxo, +mobile -what we don’t like about Plaxo.
So take a look, get the iPhone app (iTunes link) it’s free. Join the ’360idevdenver’ group, and share your contact info, leave your business cards at home!
Join the group, register for 360|iDev, before it’s too late, which it almost is! It’s gonna be a great time! Don’t miss out! Register Now!
Let’s be honest, you’re into iPhone development for one reason and one reason alone: to break into the Top 3 Paid Apps list. Sure, to follow your heart and make the world a better place is up there too, but you want to make money while doing all that.
That’s why we’re proud to announce that we have, not 1, but 2 indies that have cracked the highly coveted “Top 3″ chart.
First off, as we’ve announced already, Keith and Natalia from Imangi Studios. Imangi is a member of the App Treasures group. Their game, Harbor Master, broke into the Top 3 spot on Friday, July 17th. John and I are very addicted to the game. If you haven’t played it, go get it now (iTunes Link).
The creators of this (and many other great games and one non-game app) will share all their knowledge during the Wednesday Keynote. John and I officially sought Imangi out and forced them to come share their great knowledge with everyone.
We thought they were the only Top 3 speakers we’d be getting. However, on September 9th, Noel Llopis of Snappy Touch, send us an email introduction: “David Whatley, creator of geoDefense, wants to talk. Can you squeeze him in?” We have a fourth room for late coming stuff like this, so we said sure. I mean, who doesn’t love TD games, much less one of the best on the platform?” We work out the details, but all the while, David holds back a little secret from us. His new game, geoDefense Swarm was in review.
September 14: geoDefense Swarm gets approved
September 19: It hits #2 in Top Paid Apps
Lucky for you, David is still going to come talk. Only now, he has mad street cred to back up his talk, entitled “How to make Mad Money with an iPhone Game”. It’ll be going down Monday right after Matt Drance’s keynote.
Again, if you’re serious about learning how to be successful on the App Store, you have 2 chances to hear from 2 different parties that cracked the Top 3 charts. Registration price is just $699, which is a small price to pay for the millions you’ll make with their knowledge. Register now or forever lose out on this knowledge.
