So here’s the story about how Carl and I, ended up in Silicon Valley for 3 weeks last month, at a start-up games company in the valley.
Hey everyone, so it’s been nearly 5 weeks since we last posted. It’s been a crazy 5 weeks and it’s not over just yet. Unfortunately we have neglected to post on the site. So here is a catch up on what myself and Carl have been up to over the last few weeks. Continue reading ‘Catch up with the Flax Project – Busy times!’
Ever wanted to fling asteroids at space pigs? Well, thanks to Astro Bacon, now you can!
Hi all, I’m back and I’ve got a shiny new game to announce. Astro Bacon is a side-scrolling space shooter for windows phone 7 which I have been working on since the end of Summer. The game is now available from the marketplace at: http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=33b0ffdb-1c79-4732-879c-0ff1a5223191 for €0.99. Or if you don’t mind an annoying ad banner in your way you can get it free here: http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=f761a51e-6083-4d61-a458-7a3ce93c4e0c (The ad really does limit screen space though).
Last tuesday night myself and Carl headed up to Dublin for a few meetings, and also got to drop into Google European HQ for the Dublin Google Technologies User Group event. Arriving a little late we got into the start of the talk by Google Dev Advocate, Martin Omander about the new Google Prediction and Storage APIs. Quite an interesting talk and some pretty neat demos with the prediction API. Continue reading ‘Dublin GTUG – Hackerspaces and the formal education system’
At the start of this Summer I attended the Dublin Web Summit with Ciarán and Carl. It was there that I met the startup company FluidUI, made up of Dave Kearney and Ian Hannigan. Luckily for me, they were looking for someone to take some work to speed up the development of their product. I took up their offer and got a summer internship out of it.
