Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 01:57PM 
The Unity Game Engine helps you create great looking games that can run on a variety of platforms. It is especially interesting to those of us in Hull as the behaviour of the objects in the game can be controlled by scripts written using the C# language.
In this session Simon Grey will present an overview of Unity and give insights into how it can be used to create games.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 01:43PM
The next Rather Useful Seminar will be describing how you can use your C# and Visual Studio smarts to create embedded gadgets using the .NET Gadgeteer system. The presentation features demos where we are going to create a digital camera and also show the 'Q' style set of interfaces that you can use to create amazing devices.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at 02:00PM 
There will be a seminar on Presentation Skills on Wednesday 7th November at 1:15 pm in Lecture Theatre D (LTD) in the Robert Blackburn Building. Rob Miles and David Grey will try to tell you how you can hone your presentation skills to win over an audience, or interview.
Monday, October 29, 2012 at 08:54AM 
We will be doing our next Rather Useful Seminar on the 31st of October on the subject of publishing and legality. Rob Singh from the University Knowledge Exchange and Rob Penrose from Andrew Jacksons Solicitors will be joining me, Rob Miles in the Robert Blackburn Building. (Can you see a pattern forming here?)
More Robs than you can shake a stick at will be talking about the nature of copyright, steps you can take to help make sure that what you thought of stays yours, and Rather Useful things to consider when you get together, form a little group (which is probably really a company) and start selling your wares via App Store or Marketplace.
The session will be at the usual time and place, 1:15 pm in Lecture Theatre D in the Robert Blackburn Building. Teams from Three Thing Game who are thinking about selling what they have made are strongly advised to come along and take part.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 08:51PM 
The opposite of inspiration...
We did a Rather Useful Seminar today on XNA and creating game assets. Simon did some presentations on asset creation and repositories and I shows off some XNA development stuff. These are the links that Simon mentioned:
Note that the SVN notes are only available via the campus SharePoint site. I did some demonstrations with the amazing “Bread and Cheese” game. You can find the code for this here.
