Blog'A'Little : Game Camp, C#

Game Camp September Event - Registration now open

Einar Ingebrigtsen — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:33:00 GMT

26th of September we´re holding our third Game Camp event. This time around we´re going across 2 simultaneous tracks. We´ve got a lot of exciting stuff for you, and as always; IT´S FREE.

Scott Bilas is coming to do the keynote and a session as well. Scott has worked on a lot of tripple A games for numerous companies (Sierra Online, Oberon Media, Gas Powered Games). He has had a few talks at the Games Developers Conference and is a strong believer in creating games in a managed environment such as the .net CLR and utilizing Xna. In addition FunCom is coming to talk about their experience in developing Age of Conan. The agenda is so great, you´ve gotta go and read to not miss out. Most game companies in Norway are attending with speakers. This will be our best event yet!

Registration is now open, don´t hesitate to register and show up at this great event.

Read the agenda and register here. And remember to spread the word.

Game Camp - The Gathering 2008 material

Einar Ingebrigtsen — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:01:21 GMT

We held an Xna workshop at the Gathering 2008 in the Easter and most of the material is now available for download from here.

The workshop went very well. We held a 10 hour introduction to Xna with interactive tutoring the first day, the second and third day Petri Wilhelmsen (also known as digitalerror0r) had a standby function for those who needed further help. In addition to having a workshop we held an Xna competition. First price was a Xbox360 Halo 3 edition with Halo3, second price a Windows Vista Ultimate and third price was a wireless network adapter for Xbox360, all the prices was courtesy of MSDN Norway (thanks again Rune Zakariassen).

We videotaped the different sessions we had, but the sound quality was really bad, we're working with different tools to see if we can enhance it and publish it on Game Camp.

Game Camp - Kick Off

Einar Ingebrigtsen — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:48:08 GMT

We're closing in on the official kick off for Game Camp. 23rd of November is the date. The kick off will be in Oslo at NITH's facilities, we're getting speakers from Microsoft, Cap Gemini and myself to come and talk about different aspects of XNA and development of games using a managed environment such as .net. In addition we're working on getting Norway's biggest game developer, FunCom, to come and show off their latest title 'Age of Conan'. Fingers are being crossed for this to happen.

Anyhow, if you want to attend, and I know you want to, you have to go and register yourself for the event over at our Game Camp site :

http://www.gamecamp.no/Events

Be there or be .. Hmm.. Game Over.. :)

Game Camp Norway starting up

Einar Ingebrigtsen — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:39:00 GMT

After visiting the Microsoft Canadas' DevelopMental site (got a tip from Rune Grothaug at Microsoft Norway), I figured out I'd better start a Game Camp seeing that I'm all into game development and have waited for an opportunity to get the word out about creating games using C# and the .net framework.

Game Camp Norway can be found at : http://www.gamecamp.no - The site will be entirely in Norwegian, so I guess only a few of you will find it interesting to read.

The site has much to be desired as for a new design/template and a logo and so forth, and there is pretty much no content there as of today. But we have started, have the domain, have the server, the mailserver, the web community server.. Getting there..

Keep your eyes on the site if you find it interesting (and now how to read and understand Norwegian).