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Session Notes: Life on the Bungie Farm: Fun Things to do with 180 servers and 350 processors

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:48 PM by danielfe
Speakers: Luis Villegas, Sean Shypula from Bungie Distributed client/server system split up, runs it in parallel processes user submitted tasks in parallel 180 rackmounted machines 300 processes can use Advantages speed up time consuming tasks - (rendering Read More...
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Panel: Future of MMOs

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:56 PM by danielfe
Speakers: MC of event, Jon Wood - Managing Editor MMORPG.com Jack Emmert - Founder, Cryptic Studios, Champions Online, City of Heroes/Villans One other person, Mark Jacobs or "Matt" from Cryptic Ray Muzyka - General Manager of Bioware, haven't Read More...
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Session: Star Wars, The Force Unleashed

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:50 PM by danielfe
Full Title: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed: How LucasArts is Building a Game Development Team and a Technology Pipeline...at the same time Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is a new, upcoming title Storyline: Darth Vader's secret apprentice, between episodes Read More...
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Top 10 Interesting Nuggets from the Microsoft GDC Keynote

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:40 PM by danielfe
The US video game industry revenue is now $18 Billion and continues to grow. Games have not only surpassed the movie industry, they have also surpassed the music industry (source: Jupiter Research) 7 different Xbox titles sold over 1MM units in the 2007 Read More...
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Session: WiiFit: Creating a Brand New Interface for the Home Console

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:02 PM by danielfe
Speaker: Takao Sawano WiiFit Examples Family weighing themselves and tracking health Father doing push ups on balance board Mother doing yoga on the board Games: Kid taking headers playing soccer goalie Games: Grandfather using ski-jump Games: Mother Read More...
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Session: Rules of Engagement: Blizzard's Approach to Multiplayer Game Design

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:01 PM by danielfe
Speaker: Rob Pardo, Blizzard Entertainment Rough notes below   Game Balance - solo to max level - important role in a group, raid, and group PVP - Starcraft - Race totally different - Better players can win games fast - Offense over defense (don't Read More...
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Session: Taking Xbox LIVE Arcade Games to the Next Level

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:00 PM by danielfe
Note: I'll be regularly blogging on session at GDC (Game Developer Conference) Rough notes Speaker: Scott Austin: Xbox LIVE Arcade, Microsoft I just interviewed Scott and we'll be posting the video on Channel 9 in the next few days Games N+ - Level editor Read More...
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The Bill Gates Interview

Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 8:51 AM by danielfe
I'm such a huge Bill Gates fan, not only for his technical and business brilliance, but for all of the work his foundation has done. That's why when Jeff Sandquist and Charles Torre told me I was going to be interviewing Bill, I was....beside myself. Read More...
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New Channel9 Interview with Scott Guthrie on Mix

Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 11:28 AM by danielfe
Last night, I caught up with Scott Guthrie and we talked about the up-and-coming technology that will be shown at Mix . I just posted Part 1 of the video onto Channel9 where we discuss IIS 7.0 and what it means for developers. I'll post Part 2 tomorrow, Read More...
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Build and Publish Web Sites with Popfly Explorer Beta

Posted Friday, November 09, 2007 1:13 PM by danielfe
I'm back in Seattle after attending TechEd Europe earlier in the week. It was an absolute blast and thanks to everyone who came to the overflowed Popfly session! Tony Goodhew and I did demos in Soma's keynote, check out Patrik and Andrew's blogs for a Read More...
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Facebook F8 Event Photos

Posted Thursday, May 24, 2007 6:38 PM by danielfe
Mark Zuckerberg kicking things off Some insane stats, 12MM people return daily, 24+ million users, 40 billion page views Facebook provides you a Canvas that you can do anything with including full ASP.NET or Popfly applications Dan'l Lewin, Microsoft Read More...
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Microsoft + Facebook Partnership

Posted Thursday, May 24, 2007 4:33 PM by danielfe
Today at Facebook F8, Corporate Vice President Dan'l Lewin announced a new partnership between Microsoft and Facebook. Popfly Facebook Block : Available immediately, we've added the Facebook block which prodices access to Facebook data including the User Read More...
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Microsoft @ Maker Faire

Posted Saturday, May 12, 2007 6:15 PM by danielfe
Jacqueline Russell has been planning another great presence at this year's Maker Faire and I have to say I'm pretty pumped! Check out the Maker Faire Coding4Fun page for full details . Microsoft will be out in full force including: Windows Home Server, Read More...
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XNA Game Studio Express - Toronto Game Camp and SpaceWar Webcast

Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 8:08 AM by danielfe
*Updated to include Seattle Code Camp (per Z-man ) Seattle Code Camp - October 27-28th There are many XNA sessions including: Exploring the XNA Framework by Mitch Walker Introduction to the Programmable Pipeline in XNA by Rick Hoskinson Making an XNA Read More...
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Learn How to Mod Mech Commander 2: 3-Part Webcast

Posted Monday, May 01, 2006 6:59 PM by danielfe
As I blogged about earlier , and as was mentioned on Slashdot and Digg , Mech Commander 2 is available to download, and using Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition, and the webcasts listed below, you too can learn how to create your own game mods. Michael Kulcher Read More...
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