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conference hub in Fribourg

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

head conference from the 24th till 26th of Octobre

Now its definite: I’m currently involved at Liip in establishing a <head> web conference hub in Fribourg, Switzerland. For those who don’t know it: Fribourg is situated an approximate 20min drive south of Bern and since it is partly French partly German speaking, we’re hoping to unite folks from eastern and western Switzerland under the same roof exchanging ideas and knowledge in between watching the sessions.

Plus, Liip is giving away 5 tickets to join the hub for free! All information on the hub and how to get a free ticket (if they’re still there) can be found under http://liip.to/head and will continuously be updated as organization proceeds. So stay tuned and drop me a line, if you got any questions.

Hope to see you around!

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Adobe AIR Camp – a balance

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Last week’s Adobe AIR Camp in Zurich was interesting, challenging, fun and exhausting at the same time: After a short introduction of Serge Jespers and Mike Downey about the new features that AIR has to offer and how to create applications with the various tools, everyone was up to develop the coolest AIR App within 24 hours.
I, for my part, tried to create a multi player game, that would connect to a Milgra based Java server. Turns out, it wasn’t the best idea to start developing my first Java application during a contest… So, sadly, when judgement minute came after 24 hours of coding, consuming engery drinks and no sleep at all I didn’t have much to show :(

At least, after a few days on the couch trying to recover from the camp, I was able to write a few lines on the Liip blog expressing a critical view on AIR’s potential.

And since I assume, winning is overrated anyway, I’ll just finish up that game in the next months and simply pretend I won that ultra smooth, super light and shiny MacBook Air … oh, crud, that’s not the same!

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iconomix nominated “Master of Swiss web 2008″

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

News just arrived that the iconomix project, Liip is heavily involved in, has been nomiated “Master of Swiss web 2008″. Find out more (and vote for it) at http://vote.liip.ch

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References page

Monday, December 17th, 2007

I finally managed to set up a references page where I’ll keep track of the most interesting projects I’ve been involved in so far. For now, I merely included a selection of web projects and neglected the various software projects I contributed to as gamedesigner, illustrator, animator or – yet again – programmer. I plan to set up another page for these no lesser interesting projects in the near future.

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Economy platform “iconomix” released

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

In case you’ve been wondering why not even a single post has appeared since the (not very) exiting setup of this blog, take a look at iconomix.ch and you’ll know what I’ve been working on during the last months:

Railgame - iconomix module

Iconomix is a rather big platform issued by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) that’s supposed to be used for educational purposes. Several interactive modules introduce the user into the magical world of economy.

As leading flash developer, I’ve been deeply involved into the development of flash-clients for two Red5 driven multi-player games and the production of dozens of custom flash components since I started working for Liip in October 2007. These in turn where used to build flash-driven multimedia courses and single-player games. So far, the biggest project I’ve been involved in.

For those of you who know German or French, check out the Liip page for more information.

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