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End of Semester Quiz
Friday, March 31, 2006 10:42 AM

To celebrate the end of this part of the semester the Microsoft Student Partners (Tom and Andy) set up a special quiz night with easter egg prizes and money behind the bar for soft drinks and beer. Counting out the beer money. What we were playing

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Imagine Those Laptops
Friday, March 31, 2006 10:40 AM

There was something of a surprise in store for team 3-Pair when they were asked to meet up with the head of the department for a "status report". Instead of having to deliver something, they were instead presented with a shiny new laptop each, which were

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The Hull Posse
Monday, March 27, 2006 10:36 AM

We have just received the pictures taken by the official Microsoft photographer. This is the entire Hull posse. You can click on it for the Flickr page and a larger version. Well done everyone, from left to right Cheese Eaters, Medware, Three Pair

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That Awfully Nice Nintendo Man
Thursday, March 23, 2006 6:51 PM

I went to the Nintendo keynote today. What a contrast with the Sony one. Rather than a presentation about revenue streams, SKUs (whatever they are) and spinoff marketing (which is what the Sony man was big on) insted we had a talk from someone who is

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I could have been rich
Wednesday, March 22, 2006 6:43 PM

Talk about missed chances. I vividly remember some time back, when Microsoft first unveiled XNA, that I thought to myself "I bet that involves putting the .NET common language runtime on gaming boxes". I wish that I'd bet a big chunk of cash on that theory,

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Hero Worship at GDC 06
Wednesday, March 22, 2006 12:25 AM

Actually met one of my heroes today. Scot Kim, who has been setting puzzles for as long as I've enjoyed doing them. Scott and his wife Amy Jo gave a talk at GDC mobile and I just had to go up and say hello at the end. (if you ever read this blog Scott,

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Game Developers Conference 06 Mobile Morning Sessions Summary
Tuesday, March 21, 2006 3:22 AM

So I'm in San Jose for GDC 06. And today I got to go to a whole bunch of sessions. Here is a quick summary of where we are at from the morning keynotes, in bullet points Things are good (over 2 Billion dollars spent on mobile games last year) but things

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Rob at GDC 05
Sunday, March 19, 2006 5:35 AM

I'm running some posts from GDC 05. I'll be spreading them over my crazy blog and my spoke blog here. The sensible, technical, posts will go here on these hallowed pages. The, er, others, will go here.

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Even more fame
Sunday, March 19, 2006 5:31 AM

I found out yesterday that I have more fame that I thought I had. Coding 4 Fun have published my image shrinker article. I sent it through a little while back and now it is up there for all to see. I'll have get busy and write another one.

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GDC and Exploding Phones
Friday, March 17, 2006 12:20 PM

Well, 'tis done. I've finally finished my Game Developers Conference presentation. 41 slides of deathless prose and 8 demos. I just hope that people like it. There are demos that tell you how to find things in the addressbook (with the Addressbook Roulette

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Hull in the UK Imagine Cup - Full Report
Saturday, March 11, 2006 6:05 PM

[Note - this is a very graphics heavy post. Please be patient] We set off on Thursday afternoon and on the way we drove past this. An omen perhaps? Then on the bus I decide to risk life and limb to take some pictures of the Hull teams. The Cheese

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It must be something they put in the water..
Saturday, March 11, 2006 3:58 PM

Well, there you go. Sorry it has taken me a while to get back to on the blog again. The coach got back at midnight last night and I've had a few things to tidy up in the meantime. And I've had to wait for my feet to come back down onto the ground again.

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Moving at speed
Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:13 AM

Been too busy to post lately. Three teams from Hull and one team with Hull students (that makes four) have made it into the UK Imagine Cup finals. I'm super duper pleased about this. I'm even more pleased that two of the teams are comprised of first years.

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Nothing but Good News
Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:39 PM

Some days everything goes horribly wrong. Other times you get nothing but good news. Today was the latter. First off we had a very good time at Armthorpe school, showing some pupils how computer games get put together, and introducing the wonders of Visual

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