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360iDev 2011 – Just 39 Days to go!

August 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Are you a game developer? Want to be? Maybe just want to brush up on your dev skills with a little out of the box development.

 

The Game Jam is for you. And as it turns out, by you. The 360|iDev 2011 Game Jam will take place Tuesday night, sponsored by the iOS community!

The Game Jam is a great place to build your first game, or your tenth. To share what you know and learn new things.

Check out the official page, managed by our pal (and speaker) Mike Berg.

The first time Noel Llopis suggested the Game Jam to us, we loved it. Ever since then we’ve been more than happy to have one take place.

The Game Jam starts around 7pm, and goes until around 8. It’s fully hands on, bring your laptop, we’ll supply the red bull, coffee and snacks.

Then if you like, you can show off your hard work during lunch on Wednesday at the Game Jam Review.

 

See you there! Make sure you register before we sell out!

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360iDev 2011 – Dates and Location Announcement!

February 7, 2011 By 1 Comment

See you in Denver, in September!

We’ve been working on finding the right place to hold 360|iDev here in Denver and think we found it. The Crowne Plaza Downtown. Yeah, DOWNTOWN.

We know the Austin location was not right downtown, so getting around was a cab or shuttle ride, and a kind of pain in the ass. SO we’re right downtown. 2 blocks off the 16th St Mall, tons or bars and restaurants, and lots to do!

We’ll be updating the Hotel page with details and the room booking link today or tomorrow, but the dates (September 11-14) and location (The Crowne Plaza Downtown) are 100% locked in!

What’s next?

  1. Hotel page. As soon as we have the booking information we’ll update the page. We got an awesome room rate for attendees, that INCLUDES in room internet!
  2. Call for papers (I’d suggest you check this site Wednesday morning, just sayin’)
  3. Creative junk! We’ll be coming up with the (actual) logo, sticker, etc so stay tuned, it’s gonna be sweet! Don’t think the shirts won’t rock this time!

What’s this mean to you?

Well mostly it means, if you didn’t buy the faithul ticket already, it’s gone. Sorry we told you, the moment we lock in the details that ticket goes away. Starting now, and for the next 3 weeks, the early bird ticket is on sale. This ticket will be the last chance to save some coin. If you’re not sure it’s gonna be worth it, ask around.

If you’re wondering why September, I’ll tell ya. We’re only doing 1 360|iDev this year. That’s it, just the one. We’ll be packing the awesome of 2 into 1 bad ass event. We’re waiting until after WWDC so that we can all talk about the awesome stuff we’re working on, that’s likely to be NDA until then. Plus early September in Denver is awesome. Great weather, great time of year.

See you in Denver!

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360iDev – Game Jam sponsored by you, the iOS Community!

November 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I can’t say how awesome the community is! Apple is freaking lucky to have such cool folks, who can go above and beyond for each other, building apps for the iPhone. Not to diminish the iPhone but truly, any platform would rock with folks like you behind it!

The 360|iDev Game Jam, sponsored this time around by non other than our awesome community members is ON! Whether you’re a veteran game maker, or newb looking to get a start at games, the Game Jam is for you! It’s a great time!

It’s simple, the game jam starts around Tuesday night 8ish. It ends, Wednesday morning, around 9ish. Anyone who’d like to present their game is welcome to join me during the Wednesday keynote to show off their game. Past Game Jam efforts have landed in the app store!

We’ll have plenty of Red Bull, and soda, and red vines and what not to keep everyone going.

Whether you’re gonna get yur game jam on our not, thank all these folks for making the Game Jam possible!

See you in Austin!!

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360iDev – Speaker Mat Martel

September 16, 2010 By 1 Comment

Matt Martel is a great guy, and long time supporter of 360|iDev. It’s always great to have him with us, especially as a speaker! Make sure you check out his session ‘Using an Ad Mediation Layer (AdWhirl, or Mobclix)’ it’s sure to be a good one!

Q: How long have you been doing iOS development?

A: Since April 2008, right after the first SDK was released. I started working on a companion iPhone app to a social networking site (Plum) that has since been acquired by Nokia.

where it died as all things nokia do?

Q: What do you like most about being an iOS Developer?

A: I like community of iPhone developers most. The tools are great, and the individuals at Apple are doing a super job, but the indie developers across the globe are so supportive and helpful.

agreed! The community around iOS is second to none!

Q: What’s your favorite Game?

A: That has to be Compression or Compression HD.

Q: What’s your favorite App?

A: It’s Twitter or NetNewsWire, though NNW needs some serious updating.

lol well you can tell brent simmons, over beers!

Q: Robots or Ninjas?

A: Yeah, robots for me. Have you seen Elf Command?

robot elves!?!?

Q: What would change about the iOS platform if you could change just one thing?

A: Right now I’m working on Game Center. It should run on all devices, and needs offline support.

that makes a lot of sense. I’d love to see game center extend to mac desktop games, how awesome would that be! Maybe by 360|MacDev we’ll have something like that to talk about, lol

Q: What are you most excited about 360|iDev Austin?

A: Never been to Austin, heard great things about it. Also excited to meet new devs and say hi to old friends. Then there’s this iOS 4.2 thing…

really hoping 4.2 comes the week before 360|iDev, how cool would that be! Of course it might put a few presentations in to quick update/rewrite mode, lol.

Q: What would you tell someone on the fence about attending 360|iDev Austin?

A: This is the one conference that can’t be beat. Unlike WWDC or GDC you will not be totally overwhelmed by crowds. This is highly interactive in a way that only a small show can be. Your best bet if you are on a budget or have a schedule conflict. The sessions are super, but the networking is priceless.

Well said! We often tell people, if you can hit both do, but if you have to choose, choose 360|iDev, you’ll get more, for less and there’s lots of beer!

Register now!

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360iDev – The power of 12 year olds!

September 8, 2010 By 2 Comments

And no, we don’t mean like hooking them up to something and using them like batteries, though they probably have the energy to run a small town!

We mean, our friend Santi is coming to Austin and this time he’s bringing a friend! If you were in San Jose you’ll remember Santi as the awesome 11 year old, who sat up front during every session, and rocked the game jam, working with David Whatley! Santi and Charlie are joining us and we couldn’t be happier! These two are a great examples of how awesome the iOS dev community is. Between them they’ve released 12 apps. 12!

We’re so excited to welcome these two awesome and talented developers, and look forward to seeing what they can do in Austin!

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360iDev – From Game Jam to Appstore

August 31, 2010 By 1 Comment

The Game Jam, is a great time. It’s also an awesome place to create a game that will someday be up on the appstore. Case in point Star Fighter X2 By our pal Dan at Manic Gaming. This game started out life in the Game Jam, as a prototype. Now it’s in the app store!

The Game Jam started in Denver 2009, and we’ve continued it ever since. In San Jose 2010 The Touch Arcade Game Jam saw a ton of awesome games being worked on, developers collaborating, sharing their knowledge and skills, to help each other out.

The Game Jam brings together developers of all skill levels, to collaborate and build games or learn game theory. Many developers with little experience in game development use the Game Jam as a launch pad to quickly ramp up and leave the next morning with a firm understanding of Game Dev. Touch Arcade, our awesome sponsor in San Jose did several posts about the experience.

To take part in the Game Jam you have to be an attendee, register now!

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360iDev – Worth every penny and more

June 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Conference pricing is funny.

You see events that cost over $1000, and think (at least I do) “what will I be getting out of this conference? Will it be worth $1000? Will I be wasting my money?” I especially have those thoughts as someone who doesn’t have a company expense account to draw upon. But even in my days as a cube monkey I felt weird when I’d return from a conference and 1. have to make up what I learned to report back to my boss, and 2. submit expense reports, etc for thousands of dollars of company money.

What about when a conference has an early bird price that takes $550 off the price? I mean the savings in the early bird price is more than the actual cost to attend 360|iDev. I wonder if they think they provide over $1000 in knowledge and networking?

Why do events, with similar formats as 360|iDev cost so much more? They’re “enterprise” I guess is the only explanation. Meaning nothing but they want to milk attendees (who are typically on the company’s dime) for as much as possible. I certainly hope “enterprise” attendees don’t get suckered into this thinking, but looking at conference history, those events with “enterprise” anywhere in their name or description, tack on at least an extra $500 just because.

These events are obviously not aimed at indie developers. Ever wonder if you get 2-3x the value? They’re not 2-3 times the length, or the number of sessions, or anything else that would be a good metric, so what’s the difference?

I know that every attendee or potential attendee has a choice in the events they attend, and I show my gratitude in organizing an awesome event that blows their minds. At least a few times every event, someone walks up to me (I’m the guy at the reg desk, or walking around saying hi) and tells me that they’ve already gotten their money’s worth.. ‘Already’, and it’s usually lunch time on day one!

360|iDev Austin is still a ways away, but why wait? Waiting will cost you $100 if nothing else, and it’s not like you’re not gonna have a good time, and get more information from 3 days than you’ll get anywhere else. Go register, worse case you can get a refund if you can’t make it (Make sure it’s before the cut off though!)

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360idev – USB Hunt at WWDC is a go!

June 8, 2010 By 1 Comment

At the time of this writing Drive 3 is out and about. More will be following today and tomorrow.

They’ll be placed all around (maybe inside?) Moscone. I’ll tweet clues and pictures of their locations.

Special Thanks to Owen Goss, Nathan Eror, Shane Crawford, Chris Adamson, Yadong Liu, Cory Smith, and Saul Mora for the promo codes to some of their awesome apps, and games.

Each drive has a unique code for a free pass to 360|iDev Austin, this November, in addition to 8 promo codes from the awesome developers I mentioned!

This is a great chance for you to get some great apps, and a free pass to the best iPhone Developer conference around.

Can’t find the drives? Not at WWDC? Register now, before the early 100 tickets sell out. They’re already selling fast!

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360iDev it’s not what you get, but what you take away

April 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
We’ve talked about ‘Who attends 360|iDev‘, and I’m sure we’ve covered some of this before too. But I think it bears repeating.
360|iDev, is as much about what you take away, as what you get when you’re there. And NO I don’t mean SWAG.
When you leave 360|iDev on Wednesday you:
  • Leave with new friends. Friends you’ll stay in touch with online in between conferences, and reconnect with at the next 360|iDev
  • Leave with new projects. You met a great developer that you want to collaborate with, and a new game is born! (Just ask Keith and Natalia about teaming up with David Whatley on geoSpark)
  • Leave with new employees/employers. You’re hiring, or looking for work. Odds are good you’ll leave with resumes, or actual new hires/new employers.
  • Leave inspired. You’ll get home, jazzed about new techniques you learned, new concepts you picked up. New ideas you talked about over beers. With a keynote by David Whatley, a Wednesday General Session by Mike Lee, it’ll be heard to walk out uninspired!
  • Leave 6 months ahead of the curve. You’ll get home and start working on things that others won’t be thinking about for months. New libraries that haven’t hit the mainstream yet, new ways of writing code, new frameworks, etc. You’ll be ahead of the pack when they finally catch on to what’s going on.
  • Leave with new apps that just need to be cleaned up and submitted. The Game Jam (Sponsored by Touch Arcade!) is the birthplace of games like Hippo High Dive, Gravity Sling and more. Whether you’re a game developer already or not, attend the game jam. It’s Tuesday night thru Wednesday morning, and you won’t regret it. You’ll leave with more than you came in with Tuesday night, we promise.

As an iDeveloper (You know what I mean.) you have a lot of choices; iPadDevCamp the weekend after, Voices that matter in Seattle, etc. All things being equal, compare what you get from each and see what makes sense for you to attend. If you don’t agree it’s 360|iDev… Let us know. You won’t get as much technical content, community, and fun from any other event, really.

CHeck out the schedule, description of sessions, and of course, the awesome speakers list!

Register now!

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360iDev Touch Arcade Game Jam

March 25, 2010 By 2 Comments

Have a game idea you’ve been saving for when you have the time? Maybe you need to learn cocos2d first to do the game you want. Maybe you have too many other things going on, but the moment you have a few hours, it’s on.

Well, the Touch Arcade Game Jam, is for you :)

Starting Tuesday night, after the evening reception, we’ll be locking (Not really) anyone who wants to into a room at Ebay to crank out code all night long, 12 straight hours, through the night.

Touch Arcade is sponsoring, and will keep you hydrated, fed, and loaded up on Toblerone and Red bull.

When everyone else comes back to Ebay Town hall for the Wednesday General Session (Mike Lee, ya’ll) the Game jammers will be done, and ready to show off their creations.

Whether you’re a game developer right now or not, the game jam is the best place for you to try it out.

3 days to write an app? p-shaw! In Denver we saw something like 15 games demoed. Some made it to the app store shortly after, some are still being worked on for future (soon) release.

Come learn from experienced game developers first hand, in person.
The Game Jam is open to any 360|iDev attendee. Make sure you have a power cord :)

Register now!

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