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Presentation from Cloudcamp Gateshead with slides & video of my talk

June 2, 2010

Introduction A post covering my recent attendance at CloudCamp Gateshead on May 5, 2010. The organiser, Ross Cooney, asked me to give an introduction to Cloud Computing, and was kind enough to edit the footage taken by Northern Net. As of the time of writing this post (2nd June 2010), the slides have had 8847 [...]

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Byte Night 09 – the sleepover @ The BALTIC

October 6, 2009

A write-up of the combined exploits of Byte Night 09 North East. At last it has arrived! I have to admit to being a bit apprehensive before the event. I had done some prep – as documented here and here. But I was a bit in the dark about what was happen, so really wanted [...]

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Byte Night #3

September 28, 2009

The latest enthralling instalment of my preparations for Byte Night in NewcastleGateshead on October 2nd. Tent & dry run Somewhat embarrasingly, when I tried out the tent & sleeping bag on Friday night, I managed an hour or so and felt a bit odd, so came in to a nice warm bed. Mmm, perhaps sleeping [...]

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Byte Night update #2

September 23, 2009

Hello folks, I’m thrilled to be able to say that (at the time of writing) I’ve nearly reached 2/3rds of my initial fund-raising target of £500. I’ve also got some cheques coming in, so the fund-raising continues! :-D I’m really happy about this, but am keen to collect as much money as possible. [The widget [...]

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GameHorizon feedback #gh09

July 9, 2009

My impressions I thought I should write up my thoughts re my recent attendence at GameHorizon: It seems pretty clear that the Computer Games industry is a major success story Apparently making more money than film & music [although all I can find on Google are rather dodgy get-rich-quick schemes which refer to this…!] What [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #7: ‘Marking your self-published IP’; ‘Games driving other Interactive Content’;‘Heavy Rain’

June 24, 2009

Panel Discussion: ‘Game Exposure – The naked truth about marketing your self published IP’ Sponsored in partnership by BAFTA and Northern Film + Media. Chaired by Charles Cecil, MD of Revolution Software with Martyn Brown (Development Director, Team 17), Mark Morris (Managing Director, Introversion), Paul Farley (Managing Director, Tag Games). ‘How games can be used [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #6: ‘Future of Digital Distribution’; ‘Future Technologies’; ‘PlayStation Home’

June 24, 2009

‘Separating Fact from Fiction: the Future of Digital Distribution’ Roger Walkden, CEO, AWOMO ‘Future Technologies’ Steve Clayton, Microsoft ‘Development Opportunities in PlayStation Home’ Peter Edward, Director, PlayStation Home Platform Group UPDATE – I’m publishing the first bit of this session as a bulleted list, as the CIL service was offline to begin with… ‘Separating Fact [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #5: Sneaking in the Back Door to become an AAA Multiplatform Studio

June 24, 2009

Sneaking in the Back Door to become an AAA Multiplatform Studio’ Sponsored by Game Republic Paul Wedgwood, CEO and Game Director, Splash Damage Ltd. GameHorizon #5: Sneaking in the Back Door to become an AAA Multiplatform Studio Technorati Tags: north east england,technology,interesting,ideas,gateshead,gamehorizon,games,business This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike license.

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GameHorizon live-blog #4: ‘Survival of the fittest’; & ‘next Evolution in casual MMOPGs’

June 23, 2009

Panel discussion: ‘Survival of the fittest’ Chaired by Jamil Moledina (Outreach Director, EA Partners, Electronic Arts) with Darren Jobling (Business Development Director, Eutechnyx), Mark Rein (Vice President, Epic Games), Conor Sheridan (FX Dealer Manager, Custom House), Robert Bond (Head of IP, Technology and Commercial, Speechly Bircham), Alex Carter-Silk (Partner, IP, Technology and Commercial, Speechly Bircham) [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #3: ‘Games are entering a new dimension’; & ’8 To be Great’

June 23, 2009

Games are entering a new dimension; 3D Stereoscopic Gaming on the console’ Andrew Oliver, CTO and Co-founder, Blitz Games Studios ’8 To be Great – The 8 traits that lead to great success’ Richard St John, Success Analyst & Author of 8 To Be Great   GameHorizon live-blog #3: ‘Games are entering a new dimension’; [...]

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