Orta talks iPhone Development

Orta and title slide. Nice hat.

Orta (or Ben Maslen) is graduate from our department who is into iPhone development and other cool stuff. Our student computing society, Hull Com. Soc.  invited him up to Hull to give a talk about what he has been up to.

Very good presentation. Nice to hear some of the things that we go on about during the course coming back at us from an ex-student. Orta made the point that when you start doing something like this that you must actively engage with the developer community, asking questions and helping others. Just writing a game and putting it out there is one thing, but you also have to work at “being out there” to promote both yourself and the things that you have done. 

From what he showed us, he seems to be doing pretty well at it.

Comments

[Christo]

That made me want to make a game for Ipad...
Only problem, no mac! And I heard Hackintosh had some quite dodgy manipulations involved...

[orta]

There's no question on the legality of hackintoshes, I've replied to two emails on the subject so I should probably write a blog post about this. I'll get that done and post back here in an update.

[orta]

http://blog.ortatherox.com/post/456795805/iphone-game-programming-addendum

Tada :)