We recently worked with A&E to make a Viking Quest game to promote the upcoming season of Entourage. http://vikingquestgame.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=711gsvP96Zs
The video is of Johnny Drama ranting about how he isn’t getting any royalties from the game and he is pissed. It’s pretty hilarious and was a lot of fun to work on. Entourage premieres September 7,10pm.

The IDF keynote that we were apart of is up online. It was my first IDF and I have to say I had a lot of fun.

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/events/idffall_2008/video.htm?iid=idf_home+tab_audiovideo#

Session: Anand Chandrasekher
Click - launch webcast
Fast forward to 26 min and you will see Warren our CCO.

I am just getting ready to walk into the rehearsal for the Keynote tomorrow morning on Intel Mobile Devices. We are going to be presenting in the first keynote in the morning and we also have a booth downstairs in the MID showcase section. If you are here stop by and say hi.

Tickets for the very first FlashPitt are on sale now. I will be speaking this year and am excited since it’s the first one and it will also be my first time in Pittsburgh. There are a few speakers announced on the site and it looks like there will be a pretty good lineup. I will be presenting on Physical Computing in Flash. It will be similar to the presentation I gave at Flashbelt this year but I have been working on some new samples that should be lots of fun.

We released our first iPhone game today with the release of the new iPhone. It’s a pretty simple game that uses the accelerometer as the controls. We really wanted to get something up there for the release and worked really hard over the last few weeks. Here is the link to the game.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=284967502&mt=8

Here are the links that I showed in my presentation.

Places to buy
http://www.imagesco.com/
www.sparkfun.com
www.robotshop.ca
www.dgikey.com
www.jameco.com
www.phidgets.com

Reference
http://www.marumushi.com/apps/remotedriver2/
http://2005to2007.fabrica.it/tuned_stairs/old/index.html
http://www.uva.co.uk/archives/
http://www.arduino.cc
http://www.phidgets.com

Books
Physical Computing
Making Things Talk

I am currently sitting in the Chicago airport waiting for my delayed connection to Minneapolis. Seriously though does any flight leave here on time?  I am super excited for Flashbelt as I am every year. There is just a great vibe that surrounds this conference which I think is directly related to it’s small and intimate size. I’ve been having a lot of fun over the last several weeks preparing for my presentation. I will be giving a beginners guide to getting Phidgets and Arduino to talk with Flash. I am hoping to show people that it’s not that complicated to get up and running quickly and get some really simple examples running. If you have experience with Phidgets or Arduino then the session may be a little basic, but hopefully you can be inspired by some of the examples I will show. If you are attending the conference feel free come and say hi, or sing a duet on Wednesday night at Nye’s.

Stacey and I arrived in Lisbon today to attend OFFF. Although not really a Flash conference I know there will be some familiar faces around. If you are here get in touch and we can have a few Super Bock’s together.

Flashbelt is only a few weeks away and I am getting very excited. This conference has to be the one I get the most excited for every year, and this year will not disappoint. There are only 400 tickets available and I can ensure you they will go quickly. The speaker line up this year is amazing and I am sure my brain will hurt once it’s all over. Night time events are always a blast - especially the last night at Nye’s.

About a month ago we launched our first major Papervision3D site www.avpvu.com. It’s a promo site for the Alien vs. Predator Requiem DVD. It uses a mix Papervision3D, 2D and live action video.

I don’t want to give too much of it away so I urge you to go and check it out for your self.