New Media Manitoba is hosting an intro to developing for the iPhone and iPod Touch event this evening, and I will be live-blogging here for those interested, but unable to attend or get into this sold out event!
And here is the transcript from the event...
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Just about to get going here... I am doing this from my iPhone so will likely try to be succint in my typing, and please bear with any spelling errors! |
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7:01
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Kevin Hnatiuk from New Media Manitoba is adjusting the projector and about to begin the introductions! |
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7:02
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tonights event is an intro to developing for the iPhone and iPod touch |
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7:04
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this is the second night of this presentation, as there was incredible demand for the first night |
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7:05
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Kevin has started |
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7:06
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20 people with iPhones or touches here |
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7:07
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draw for an iPod touch tonight for NMM members |
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7:08
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Myron introdocing the Virtual Reality Centre where is the venue for tonightsevent. |
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7:10
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VR centre receives govt funding to help with research and is available for use by the community |
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7:12
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Alec Holowka introduced and he will be presenting, from Infinite Ammo http://infiniteammo.ca/ |
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7:13
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independent developer and creator of aquaria |
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7:15
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doing an overview of tonight's program |
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7:17
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explaining his triforce of game development... business, technology and art |
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analyzing how various games are developed with business, art or technology as driving forces for different games |
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7:21
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talking about independent games... Cave story, World of Goo |
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7:22
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Cortex Command, Knytt, Crayon Physics which looks cool |
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7:23
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Dwarf Fortress, Aquaria |
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talking about how to come up with a Game Concept |
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intro to his company Infinite Ammo |
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their game Paper Moon |
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developed in 12 days, requires 3d glasses |
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graphics and game play is in 3d, requires red and blue 3D glasses for the full effect. |
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graphics were drawn on paper, cut out and scanned in, very cool |
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very cool, developed for a competition, and has to be beatible in 5 minutes. Looks very cool |
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now onto iPhone devel info |
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7:35
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going over hardware specs, now going over developer certification process |
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7:35
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app store overview |
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app store pricing levels |
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going over app store purchasing process, which if you haven't done it, is super simple |
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iSplume demo |
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now wurdle, a boggle clone |
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Wurdle's highest rank on the app store was 8 |
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Received 2000 purchases a day when ranked 8 on the app store |
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They estimate 10000 sales per day for top 1-3 apps |
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7:43
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1-2% of iPhones have a buggy acceleromator which detects movement when device is sitting still |
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7:44
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Developer approval take 1-4 weeks |
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approval for store and setup banking info takes... |
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1-4 weeks |
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game approval took 4-8 days |
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right now 1280 games available |
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apple pays month to month and region by region |
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demo of Phull |
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how to design game... Come up with something that can be played in 2-10 minutes on the bus |
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think simple, easy to figure out for player, and stay focused |
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prototype and test well |
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listen to feedback |
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15 minute break |
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8:14
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getting going again, Kevin is explaining the presentation eval forms we have been given |
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8:15
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winner of iPod touch is John P |
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8:16
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Alec is back on to talk about XCode |
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8:17
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showing code of Aquaria |
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8:19
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now iPhone code of new game he is working on called das cube |
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In Das Cube,bang like colored cubes together |
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8:22
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looks simple but neat, demo of the game on the emulator in XCode |
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8:23
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explaining opengl code |
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8:26
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Code looks very codey |
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8:27
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Moving on to talk about game development tool called Unity |
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8:27
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Christopher Lobay from Infinite Ammo now talking |
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8:29
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Unity allows for one click publish to iPhone, and other formats |
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8:30
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showing paper moon in Unity, very gui... friendly for making quick changes |
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unity supports JavaScript and C# |
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now showing a curling game in Unity developed by Alec with Adam from Wurdle Fame |
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Unity costs $1600 per user pimped out |
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unity allows you control game on mac with the iPhone as your input device! |
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8:41
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Going over differences between XCode and unity... Cost, freedom, ease of use, development timeline |
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Formal presentation over, now onto Q&A |
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they found out how easy Unity is, how the company is to work with, and there is a great community behind it |
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talking about their funding sources, and their succes |
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8:47
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Alec Came back to Winnipeg, because funding options and the game community has grown in Winnipeg... Oh and he and his girlfriend broke up |
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Presentation over, now Kevin is back up |
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8:58
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going over iPhone stats |
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8:59
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discussing the opportunity that exists for app developers |
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11:05
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Well that was fun... Coveritlive.com entered maintenance mode at exactly 9:00pm just as things were wrapping up. |
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11:07
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Kevin ended off introducing an iPhone Applications Developer training course that will be taking place in December 2008. The cost is $5995 with $1500 refunded within 90 days of your appication launching on the iTunes App Store |
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