March 2012 – San Francisco, CA – At the Game Developer Conference , and as part of the ARM exhibit area, Metaio GmbH was showing their new 3D augmented reality tools and capabilities. The launch of the Nintendo 3DS brought headlines with the capability to generate and display 3D augmented objects in the screen from…
March 2012 – San Francisco, CA – At the Game Developers Conference Neurosky presented their new development program for helping companies monetize their technology through new applications. Their EEG has been incorporated into several products from games to rehabilitation products to preventive care applications. These resulted in a monetization model that included the program being…
Game Developers Conference, San Francisco—We talked with Imagination Technologies about their latest developments and tools. The driving trends in the consumer electronics spaces are mapping well with the various products that Imagination offers. The latest releases include new cores and development tools for software. The new product releases include the VXE384, a multi-standard, multi-stream video…
GDC, San Francisco—We talked with Marmalade about their cross platform development tools. Their single binary architecture allows for easy deployment for multiple end platform development. Starting from a C++ development environment with focus on Arm-based platforms allows them to target a large range of OS and devices. One key factor is that Arm is one…
March 6, 2012, Game Developers’ Conference, San Francisco—A panel looked at the various causes for product and company failures. The panelists described the many dysfunctional processes and functions that caused projects to falter. Jamie Cheng, Scott Anderson, Steve Swink, Amir Rao, Colin Northway, Ron Carmel comprised the panel. The contributors boiled down to two main…
March 6, 2012, Game Developers’ Conference, San Francisco—Giordano Contestabile from PopCap Games described the work needed to change a game franchise from paid to freemium. Bejeweled was the first PopCap game and was followed by 2 and 3. The games originally were built for the PC and moved to Facebook, iOS, and over 30 other…
March 6, 2012, Game Developers’ Conference, San Francisco—Jussi Laakkonen from Applifier talked about the movement from general social media over the Web to smart phones. The emergence of a most personal device is changing the nature of social media. The rationale for smart phones is to have paying customers use more functions and time on…