Archive for June, 2008

Beta testing

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

it’s been a while since i’ve updated the blog from an engineering point of view. the main reason being that, yup you’ve guessed it, we’ve been engineering. we released the first 20 beta accounts this week and so far so good.

 it’s always a little strange when the project you’ve had total control over enters the public domain and out of your hands but it’s also exciting.

 i’ll keep posting here in small chunks as we move through the process and describe how the feedback comes in and gets sorted, tagged and becomes part of the refinement process and then back out into the wild.

stay tuned.

Gorillas in the mist

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

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Proudly presenting… an excuse to be in the sun.

Friday, June 6th, 2008

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Yep! It’s exactly what you think! We’ve spent a few quid and got some T shirts printed for the team. We’ve been working hard over the winter months. Summer is here so why not do a little “unconventional marketing” while we’re sat in the beer garden celebrating our upcoming second phase of Beta trials.

So, if you spot us out and about, please come over and say ‘Hi’… and just incase you’re feeling extra nice, mine’s a ‘Brains SA’!

Guess what! We’re even thinking of getting some T’s in for our friends. So if you fancy ‘being our friend’, drop a line to hello(at)woosabi.com or even sign-up to our Beta user list. Limited number of spots available.

Woo Loves to be Smart.

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Walking over for a coffee this morning I spotted an opportunity to stake out the first Smart fortwo BRABUS. Not only is this car green with its micro hybrid drive (mhd) but it also packs a mighty 98bhp.

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I’m a big fan of the Fiat 500 but it struck me how cool the Woosabi brand would look pasted on the side of a crystal white painted fortwo, and while you’re testing out the performance of 98bhp from the lights, those left in your dust trail would read “mind your own business” printed on the rear :)

Woosabi has something in common with the fortwo… small but mighty, simple to use and designed to get the job done with ease and fun.

Woosabi meets Greenscreen

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

I met with a great guy today, Mark Deloura who’s VP of Technology at GreenScreen Interactice. I told him a little about Woosabi and he mentioned that they use basec4mp a little, so it was great to get his feedback from a different industry. I said we’d get Mark a Woosabi beta account and see how we compare - eek!

We also talked a lot about my pet subject; development methodologies (I know, yawn yawn!) I mentioned that there’s a ton of methodologies andcase studies specific to application development but not a lot it seems for game development. I have a bunch of theories as to why this is the case and so does Mark. More interestingly it turns out that Mark is co-ordinating a conference later in the year where there will be a series of presentations by game developers comparing different methodologies - which obviously I find intensely exciting, YMMV!

So, we proposed a bi-partisan venture between game and application development to blog each week on a particular aspect of development and see how it differs between the two sub-disciplines which will appear each Friday.

This week’s topic: TBC

Woosabi makes some new friends (or SF 2.0)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

So I’m here in San Francisco, not slept in 27 hours, and only feeling slightly tired ;) Actually, that’s a lie, I’m going to pass out. But here’s some pics I’ve take so far!

The Car! (yuk!)

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outside :)

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inside :)

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