Month: November 2012

How to Vote in the Global Startup Battle (because the site sucks)

From our testing and based on the large discrepancy between the number of likes and the number of votes on the entries, we’ve concluded that the Global Startup Battle’s voting site’s usability sucks.

The correct way to vote would be to like the Startup Weekend page, then add Offerpop as an app, then wait for the entry to fully load before clicking the small orange Vote button.

Go vote now! http://bit.ly/mystartupacademy

Project Araro – Bigas Hackathon

In a C-Cup meeting the week before the IRRI/Smart Bigas Hackathon, MRTtrackr‘s Michie suggested I do a Farmville type game for the event. I originally didn’t want to do it, instead favoring more relevant apps for IRRI. However, two things convinced me to go with making a game:

  • If I was to participate, I needed to have a team. The only teammate I could get was Alvin who was there mainly as an observer. For those who don’t know Alvin Chan, he’s a game designer.
  • IRRI actually needs a game: their educational rice growing simulation was written in True Basic and badly needed a port/update.

Long story short, we made a game and we won the game category.

You can play the game now at araro.karaniwan.org. The source code is also available on Github.

Here’s a video of our “winning presentation”:

If you want to learn more about how we did the app, attend the Pre-Hackathon meetup for the 4SQHackPH. I’ll be there to talk about hackathon stuff.