Please vote for our entry in the Global Startup Battle! http://bit.ly/RR8apT
(You may have to like the page, though =/)
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.
Tayo’y Maglaro: Towns v0.60a
Been busy for the past few weeks. Took a break from work to record a 1-hour Tagalog Let’s Play of a beta indie game I’ve been playing for the past few months, Towns.
(best viewed in HD)
Apologies for not lowering the game sound channel. I only realized it after uploading 700MB with a crappy PLDT myDSL line.
September Meetup Videos and RailsFTW 0.11
Just a couple of quick Ruby related updates.
Last Thursday we held our September meetup at the Friendster office in Ayala. Here are the videos of the event:
More pictures are posted at the Facebook group.
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In other news, I got around to updating RailsFTW to Rails 3.2.8, putting the installer ahead of RailsInstaller by a bunch of mini-releases. (LOL)
Updated installer can be found on the RailsFTW site.
Baguhan Biyernes: Laman ng Portfolio
Sabi nga natin noong nakaraang buwan, mas mabuti na gumawa ka na lang ng sarili mong portfolio kaysa maghabol ka ng mga certification, mas lalo na’t libre lang gumawa ng Github account para ipakita mo ang code mo pati na rin sa paggawa ng pansariling website.
Pero kahit mukhang simple lang ang payo na ito, mayroon paring mga bagay madalas itanong ukol sa mga portfolio.