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Django Dash

May 31st, 2009

As if it hadn’t been enough last time, this weekend I participated in another programming jam. This time using the Python web framwork Django. At least this time I didn’t participate alone. I tagged along Jeff Galper, a wonderful programmer interning with me at Createspace.

http://www.djangodash.com/

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Awards for SF game jam

May 27th, 2009

S’han anunciat els premis de la San Francisco bay area Game Jam. En la segona ronda, m’he classificat en primer i segon lloc!Se han anunciado los premios de la San Francisco bay area Game Jam. Me he classificado en primer y segundo lugar con mis juegosThe listings for the SF game jam are published. I secured first AND second places!

I’ve embedded the game in my various websites, I created a game development blog, I created widgets at Widgetbox, ClearSpring and iGoogle and I’ve emailed friends from all over the world. And looks like it worked!

I’ve received several e-mails from people asking about the development platform. I’ve received congratulations and more than one person asked me about Mac support (a call to the developers here!). I tried to reply all of them and asked them for their votes and eventually it paid back.

At the end of the game jam I was really disappointed with the results. I really liked the Brains game. When the popular choice opened I had big hopes and was expecting the top runners to be Brains, In Space It Only Rains Space Rocks and Shoved.

I guess that there were no incentives to continue Lava ball or Cement tower, in which I had seen a lot of potential too. Too bad. I was also disappointed at the other winning teams not pursuiting their creations. Bumper Bash had some fixtures but what happened to Save the boy?

I never really understood Lost soul but it has very polished visuals. I guess that the promotion through the development blog also helped there.

	Game	Rating Score	Total Plays Score	Embed Score	Total Score
1	Bounce ‘em Down	28.53	12.97	28.00	69.49
2	The Tank	7.92	30.16	18.67	56.75
3	Braaaains	20.21	17.55	12.00	49.76
4	Lost Soul	17.99	13.81	8.00	39.79
5	Save the Boy	4.57	1.74	13.33	19.65
6	Bumper Bash	5.35	1.61	12.00	18.96
7	Lava Ball	9.89	4.55	1.33	15.78
8	Art Craft	6.25	3.84	1.33	11.42
9	Flying Wombat Combat	5.27	0.90	4.00	10.18
10	Cement Tower	7.65	2.29	0.00	9.94
11	Shoved	7.20	1.39	0.00	8.58
12	In Space it Only Rains Rocks	6.35	1.19	0.00	7.54
13	Outbreak	2.82	1.06	1.33	5.22
14	Colony Defender	4.12	1.10	0.00	5.22
15	Robot Tower Wars	3.42	1.16	0.00	4.58
16	Fighting AIDS	3.42	1.13	0.00	4.55
17	Jungle Rundown	2.75	1.32	0.00	4.07
18	Elemental	2.57	0.71	0.00	3.28
19	Save Tommy	2.50	0.74	0.00	3.24
20	Qniverse	2.32	0.77	0.00	3.10