West Region Team
Publish your app(s) to the Windows Store and/or Windows Phone Store between December 20, 2012-February 28, 2013 to qualify for the following rewards:
Want to win the ultimate backstage pass? Here's your chance to go to Microsoft Studios and meet the Windows 8 Games Studio team. If you win, you’ll be hanging out with the teams who build games for Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, and the Xbox service—you'll also join the developers in a coding session! To enter, publish your app(s) in the Windows Store and/or Windows Phone Store between December 20, 2012-February 28, 2013, and fill out the form below. Every qualified app you publish and enter during the promotion period increases your chance to win! Our judges will pick the best three apps, and those devs will win the Grand Prize of a lifetime.
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The CEA MoDev Hackathon is where developers compete on the world’s technology stage at the International CES. This exclusive event will be a live competition to see who’s got the best idea and the skills to bring it to life in just one day. Twenty-five teams of up to four people will compete for glory and over $25,000 in cash and prizes. Spots are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
When creating a game via GameMaker, the place for changing the tiles, splash screen, colors, names, and capabilities are in Global Game Settings >> Window8 [tab] >> General [side tab]
I am heading to CES in Las Vegas, NV today. This will be my first time going. I have always wanted to go, especially since it has been considered the Super Bowl of new technology. The Bing homepage showed CES as a trending term, so I checked it out. I came across an article entitled “Why We’re Not At The Biggest Tech Show In The World” and was intrigued by the following quote:
[read the quote and the rest of the story at palermo4.com]