Welcoming back Kevin, Dave and Tiff

If you haven't noticed, Tiffany Smith has been posting a lot of news recently on the front page, and that's because she's recently stepped back into the role of News Director. As the weeks and month progress and she settles back into her role we're looking to start really focusing on getting the first report on new tools and software and other development-related things that you can use. Right now we're relying extremely heavily on our name to get people to come to us, but soon we hope to start reaching out to more service providers and tool developers to broaden our news reach. Tiff has also just replace Oli as the Humpday Daily reporter as Oli returns to some academic studies.

Also, and just as exciting, site founders Dave "Myopic Rhino" Astle and Kevin "khawk" Hawkins are making a comeback to regular activities with the site. Their roles will be largely administrative, although you may catch them around the forums more often, and Kevin is developing a new role in the company as head of our social media outreach (twitter, FB, digg, etc).

PAX East conclusions

So I never blogged about Day Three at PAX East (check out Days One and Two), and that was really because for me there wasn't one. I spent most of the day lounging on one of the many beanbags and working on my laptop. I had lunch with a friend and cruised the expo a few more times to catch a couple people I hadn't bumped into yet.

My impressions of PAX were all positive, despite the huge crush of people that were jammed into the convention center - the organization was really good considering all they had to keep a handle on. Props to all the Enforcers at the event - they had real jobs containing and coordinating all those people!

If I attend next year, it will most likely only be because they have a special industry-only day prior to the convention. That or the Boston developer scene puts on a stronger showing in the convention lecture track. The show is too consumer-oriented for GDNet to attend in a legit media capacity, I snuck in this year just to check it out.

Of course, I may just attend on my own dollar and spend the weekend chilling out and playing a shitload of games. There is that too.

iPhone uStream experimentation

I was attending Demo Night up in NYC the other night, which is a bi-annual event put on by the local IGDA chapter that lets devs showcase their games and development processes. Right as the first speakers came up I decided to try to record them via my iPhone's uStream app to check out how it handles streaming video.

You can check out the results over on our uStream page since they are recorded for later viewing. It seems the audio came through okay - although of course the video streaming wasn't all that great even on a 3G network. The building had wireless but no one had the password to it. Also, turns out the broadcasting sucks battery power faster than it can be charged through a laptop!!

So I plan to try it again next month at the NJ IGDA's Pecha Kucha night, with the iPhone plugged into a wall socket and hooked up to a wireless access point.

Also, I still can't figure out why uStream refuses to work on my laptop :/

Buy GameDev.net... anything! (practically)

While you can't order up shot glasses (yet?) if you'd like to slap a "G" logo on something you use often, then check out our Cafe Press store. Yes, we don't talk about it as much as we probably should, but it's there.

Even better, if you'd like to add the proud title of "i make games" to any of what you see in the previous store (and more!!) then you can check out that Cafe Press store.