With all the excitement last week with GDC and the last push for Flower Garden, I completely forgot to announce that I submitted Flower Garden to Apple last Friday. It’s currently listed “In Review” and hopefully, if all goes well, will be available on the App Store either this weekend or early next week. Keeping my fingers crossed!
Yes, it’s a horribly busy month.
Yes, GDC is around the corner.
Yes, I’m supposed to ship Flower Garden this Friday.
But none of that is stopping us. Come mingle with other iPhone developers this Wednesday at the Irish Pub in Carlsbad. As a bonus, I’ll do a practice run of my GDC talk about iPhone development (now that’s an old picture!).
When: Wednesday March 18th from 7:30PM until whenever.
Where: O’Sullivan’s Pub in Carlsbad (home of the Appy Entertainment Secret World Headquarters)
If you’re thinking of coming, please RSVP by leaving a comment below or emailing me. That way we get a rough idea of how many people to expect.
See you all in a couple of days!
Or is that the flowers out of the bag? In any case, I finally get to announce the project that has been keeping me up at night for the last few months: Flower Garden for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
In the next few days I’m going to start beta testing, so if you’re interested in participating, let me know.
More info coming soon…
It seems like GDC was just the other day, but GDC 2009 is around the corner! And this year, I’m going to be giving a presentation titled iPhone Development: Exploring The New Frontier I’m sorry about reverting to the cliched format of having a colon in the presentation title. It was too hard to resist 
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I’ll be sharing my experiences transitioning from traditional AAA console game development, with teams of 100+ people, multi-million budgets, and several years of development, to indie iPhone development. There are a surprising amount of things that carry over from “big game development”, and quite a few that are totally different. I’ll go into what’s involved making games for the iPhone, and what game developers can expect when making the transition.
Apart from my talk, I’m particularly excited about this year’s GDC. It seems that the amount of content on indie game development and iPhone game development has shot through the roof. On Monday and Tuesday we’re treated to not just one, but two great summits: The Independent Games Summit and GDC Mobile! Last year, the Independent Games Summit was the best part of the show. Meeting all the other indie game developers out there and hearing their experiences was great. This year I’m hoping for more of the same plus all the iPhone-specific content.
Of course, the main conference is packed with great content too, but I haven’t had time to go through all of it and pick the sessions I want to attend yet. Too busy wrapping up my current project.
So if you see me around the show, stop by and say hi. I’m always glad to meet other fellow developers, and it’s always nice to put a face with a name for those of you that I know know through Twitter or online blogs.
We had so much fun the first time, that we decided to do it again. Last time we had a great turnout and we had a great time comparing ninja UIKit techniques, giving exclusive worldwide previews of apps in the works, and sharing voodoo spells to to make your app show up in the front page of the App Store (amazing what a few beers will do).
So we’re back at it again. Anybody involved in iPhone development or interested in learning more about it is welcome to come.
When: Wednesday Feb 11th from 8PM until whenever.
Where O’Sullivan’s Pub in Carlsbad (home of the Appy Entertainment Secret World Headquarters)
If you’re interested, you might also want to join the San Diego iPhone Developers group to keep up to date with any future announcements.
See you all there!