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University of Reykjavik

Just wanted to quickly bring to your attention two interesting upcoming events at Reykjavik University (www.hr.is) that might well be of interest to IGI members.

1 - MIT Global Startup Workshop taking place March 24th-26th

2 - Lecture Marathon 2010 taking place Friday March 19th

Hope to see you there :)

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Added by Kristján Friðbertsson on March 17, 2010 at 10:21pm — No Comments

Windows Phone Community Technical Preview (CTP) Register now!

A Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Windows Phone Developer Tools is available today as a free single download at developer.windowsphone.com

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Added by Eric Heinen on March 15, 2010 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

Great events

Thanks to all for a great meetup last Thursday. In total about 50 people stopped by I believe and it was a great atmosphere and a good chance to chat over beer :o)

Maybe we just need more events like this - shorter time for talking/presenting, more time for beer and chat..?
:)

Lastly a reminder to all interested in the IGI Awards - the last workshop is merged with a visit to the Gogogic office Saturday the 13th of March -… Continue

Added by Kristján Friðbertsson on March 8, 2010 at 12:19am — No Comments

Don't forget the educational games...

A brief mention of educational games on the Guardian website:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/mar/03/naomi-alderman-educational-games

prompted me to remind everyone not to forget the genre of educational games. Despite a setback some years ago, that genre is now coming back stronger than ever as research into the various new pedagogical approaches it allowed for continued. One e… Continue

Added by Kristján Friðbertsson on March 4, 2010 at 9:59am — No Comments

Top of the world indeed !

So it turns out some people see us, on this floating iceberg in the N-Atlantic, as the pinnacle of innovation...
Thinking about that for a while, there has certainly been an immense push in the last 18 months or so. It seems a huge portion of those that lost their jobs aren't giving up, but instead trying to create their own opportunities.

The same of course is happening within our own industry here and hopefully we (the IGI) can continue to help out and support that development. So… Continue

Added by Kristján Friðbertsson on March 3, 2010 at 10:25am — No Comments

Heading to GDC? Feeling social? Like some beer?

Thursday 4th of March we'll be heading to Balthazar for our monthly meetup ("the monthlies").

This time we will have a bit of a chat about conferences such as GDC and NordicGame.
Who's going and why. What are they good for and how to make the most of them, etc etc

Also, we'll have an extended networking session fuelled by some non-non-alcholic beverages (only 700 ISK for a "big on crane") so this is a great opportunity to meet up and socialise (even more than usual) with th… Continue

Added by Kristján Friðbertsson on March 2, 2010 at 10:58am — No Comments

I want it all and I want it NOW !

Wired has a really interesting article for anyone designing or building games for the web (or perhaps any games)
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/02/i-want-it-now/

It's an interesting summary of comments, thoughts and points of view from the DICE summit in Las Vegas.
The oft-mentioned short attention spans and instant gratification (SASaIG) are of course in a key role there, but it takes those further by looki… Continue

Added by Kristján Friðbertsson on February 22, 2010 at 11:05am — No Comments

Meetups, money for games (NordPlus), etc

Just a quick post this time :)

we have an IGI Awards social gathering coming up: http://www.igi.is/events/igi-awards-social-gathering
we had a great introduction from Gudmundur Ingi of NordPlus at Meetup#10 - DEADLINE FOR NEXT APPLICATION: March 1st 2010 - more information can be found at: http://nordplus.is/page/nordplus_sprog and the attached PPT do

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Added by Kristján Friðbertsson on February 22, 2010 at 1:35am — 2 Comments

An interesting Industry sets sail

On the IGI meeting last Saturday, I introduced a concept called; The Measure of the Cosmos”, a game I would love to see developed, about mythic symbols hidden in one of the most famous books of world literature, Njálssaga. As the player deciphers images of ancient phenomena, a prehistoric Cosmic Image unfolds. It was a projection of the starry sky – a miniature Cosmos. The Cosmic Image brings to light a Blueprint up on which cultural areas were later built. Acquaintance with the Cosmic Image´ my… Continue

Added by Petur Halldorson on February 17, 2010 at 1:10pm — 2 Comments

Do you know an uber-marketer? MindGames wants one!

MindGames is looking for a person experienced in both traditional and online marketing who loves startup environments. If you know someone who fits the bill, have him or her contact deepa@mindgames.is .
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Added by Deepa Iyengar on February 16, 2010 at 10:37am — No Comments

Android vs. iPhone

Following the debate on last IGI meetup, here is an interesting comparison:

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Added by Ólafur Andri Ragnarsson on February 15, 2010 at 10:49pm — 1 Comment

IGI Meetup #10 Mobile Development

I added short notes on our February IGI Meetup:

IGI Meetup #10 – Mobile Development

Ólafur Andri
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Added by Ólafur Andri Ragnarsson on February 14, 2010 at 9:20pm — No Comments

Recent recordings and upcoming events

Hey kids :)

we recently had a very succesful and extremely interesting session at Hugmyndahusid (Feb 3rd 2010). Those of you that couldn't make it can check out the recordings at our YouTube channel (note that speakers that night had somewhat soft voices, so you may need to up your volume at times) :
http://www.youtube.com/icelandicgaming

Special thanks to Gogogic for lending their recording equipment again and especially… Continue

Added by Kristján Friðbertsson on February 7, 2010 at 8:24pm — No Comments

Amazing opportunity this Wednesday evening

Just wanted to draw your attention to the great opportunity you have this Wednesday night to hear what the multi-award-winning (and hugely talented) composer Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson has to say about music in video games. He will be speaking at Hugmyndahúsið at an event which IGI takes part in: http://igi.is/events/igi-igi-awards-at From us there will at least be Eyjolfur from CCP speaking and Auðunn from the Path to Ares group will introduce w… Continue

Added by Kristján Friðbertsson on February 1, 2010 at 9:45pm — No Comments

Game pricing - your thoughts part 2

Business 101 ? Well, yes. Most of the thoughts here are of course the same as always in pricing business and something many if not most of us will be familiar with... But - I still found it an interesting read and enjoyed the comments, so... in the hope of a discussion about game pricing starting as a result... here's GamaSutra's article on game pricing: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature… Continue

Added by Kristján Friðbertsson on January 23, 2010 at 3:50pm — No Comments

All those troubled gamers - your thoughts?

Hey kids, just came across this on RUV (Icelandic National Radio) http://www.ruv.is/heim/frettir/frett/store64/item322053/ [ Icelandic only - sorry ] Would be interested in hearing your thoughts on this... to me it seems more related to old stereotypes than much of what we have been seeing in research etc lately. There is a point about potentially increased risk of depression and stress, but compared to wha… Continue

Added by Kristján Friðbertsson on January 23, 2010 at 3:09pm — No Comments

Javascript game engine

Felt like sharing this, its the beginning of a Javascript game engine: Tank Fight The collision detection and general behavior of objects will become completely automatic, meaning objects have friction, take up space, react to collision etc spontaneously as they are created. So there is a considerable amount of base work that needs to be done but far less work will be necessary to create new games and worlds later on. Then there i… Continue

Added by Hermann Ingjaldsson on January 19, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Best of TechEd & Convergence 2010

Please allow me to shamelessly plug our big event some more... Last year, after some things in Iceland had gone downhill pretty quickly, we noticed that hardly anyone could afford to fly abroad to visit some of the big events that Microsoft organizes for its customers and partners. TechEd, PDC and Convergence 2008 welcomed only a few Icelandic visitors. To make sure the Icelandic IT industry would continue to have access to information about Microsoft solutions, Microsoft Iceland decided to se… Continue

Added by Eric Heinen on January 15, 2010 at 9:20pm — No Comments

IGI on MBL

Don't know if you've all seen this article (Icelandic). Pretty much a copy paste from Edge but good stuff nevertheless Continue

Added by Finnur Magnusson on January 6, 2010 at 2:33pm — No Comments

Some encouragement for current and future game developers..

A triple whammy from BBC news. Think outside the boxed packaging. We have seen a lot of examples (and ideas) lately for using the various devices available in different ways than necessarily intended at the start. The iPhone is a classic example of this, as developers use the various sensors etc to their advantage in new and innovative ways. PS3 of course famously found a separate audience from the start as a reasonably priced blu-ray player with supercomputer capability. The Nintendo DS… Continue

Added by Kristján Friðbertsson on January 3, 2010 at 2:06am — No Comments

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