Junho 2008 - Posts
After a great challenge, yesterday were the great night with six funny games up to win the prizes. At Microsoft Portugal auditorium, the six teams had a change to show each game running on PC and Xbox 360.
The six games were:
1 - HomeWorld
This game is about a little word that you can take care against the pollution. With a nice graphics, it's possible to simulate how we can damage our little word. First prize!
2 - Super Tenia and Friends
Inside of a pig intestine an tapeworm to control the level of fatness. Too much fat the pig goes to butcher! Else the pig dies. Second prize.
3 - Symbiose
This game came from a group of IST students. It's another 3D simulation about the environmental damage that we can made by constructing and developing a industrial city. Third prize!
4 - PizzaShoot
As the name suggest, the teenage mutant ninja turtles were back to get pizzas in theirs faces! This is my team game with Bruno Silva. Fourth Prize!
5 - Xpaces and qualquer coisa
This were a similar game as the well known space battle. Bruno Tavares has made some great adjustments.
6 - Dentinho Pescada
A warier fish combats the evils sea species. A cool 2D game with a scary scenario.
So the formula is quite simple: night + some pizzas & very silly XNA games! Yeah! Great event, great evening indeed!
I think that this initiative is a big step to get the game developers inside of XNA gaming world. Remember that if you want to get started with this technology the XNA web site, Creators Club and the Dream Build Play Challenge are the best guides.
Congratulations for all participants and for the extraordinary event organization.
Check out some photos.
PS: they say that the next XNA "bum" is known has summer fest! Stay tuned and start your game now.
O Pop Up andou por todo o país a dar uma cor diferente no dia-a-dia dos estudantes de cada local. Começou em Abril no ISCTE (Lisboa), passou pela Universidade de Coimbra, Évora, este presente na cidade invicta na FEUP, foi dar uma volta à praia na Caparica (na FCT) e terminou na passada quinta-feira onde nasceu Portugal, no campus da Universidade do Minho localizado em Guimarães. (…)
(…) O popup é sem dúvida uma grande festa! E mais do que uma festa, é um evento que é feito em conjunto com as universidades, com as Associações académicas e com alguns núcleos estudantis locais. Portanto esta é uma festa feita por todos os que nela participaram e contribuíram.
Ficamos à espera de voltar a ouvir falar, e mais do que isso, VER o Pop Up pelas universidades portuguesas no próximo ano lectivo. 
(…)
Excerto do Blog Oficial do Pop Up!
Yesterday at Microsoft Portugal auditorium, the Portuguese Windows Mobile community pocketpt.net has performed their 4th seminar on Windows Mobile technologies. Nowadays we kwon and people needs mobility, this means that everywhere in any place we want our basic information with us. Email, messenger, RSS, Internet browsing, etc on an little device. So Windows Mobile is a great response of these scenarios, and this community provides in a local language great contents about it.
Forums, devices and performances reviews, tips and tricks are their mainly goals. Above that, helping and trade theirs knowledge is daily updated to provide a non-stop community life-cycle. This seminar is one of theirs initiative to get together with all members, sponsors and with the most recent technologies on this area.
This is a great example of what I think that a community should be. Moderated people on the content, great content on web site and an nice improbability between every post. For seven years Nuno Luz (MVP for Mobile Devices) has been committed with others members on maintenance and providing helpful content for Portuguese windows mobile users.
I don't know if in other countries exists a similar community, but here in Portugal we have that lucky.
Congratulations for the great seminar that had many people, and even more for the great community work. :)
Developing games with XNA, is definitely a fun and an enthusiastic activity! A little tutorial to show how easy is to connect you XNA Game Studio with an Xbox 360, to deploy and debug our games :)
XNA Game Studio Deploy X360
yeah! Check out Bruno Silva's post about it. Now, I can remote my power point presentations :) great stuff
Para sair um pouco da rotina... momentos de relax, comida e jogos são os ingredientes fundamentais, para que seja uma experiência do outro mundo.
"Fizeste um jogo em XNA jogável na Xbox 360 ? Então, aparece no XNA Pizza Night e deixa os outros testar o teu jogo, jogando-o!
As pizzas e as coca-colas serão oferecidas pela Microsoft, o divertimento fica por tua conta.
Regista-te e participa… no final daremos prémios XBOX aos jogos mais votados!!"
Podem fazer o vosso registo em: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032380554&Culture=pt-PT
Hum... quantos mais jogos... mais pizzas... ah, não vale "besuntar" os comandos da consola... lolol
Vemo-nos então dia 24 de Junho às 18 no auditório da Microsoft.