GOTO Amsterdam - day 2
The day started slowly, probably because most of the attendees went to The Tara last evening. I didn't and wrote a blogpost, sorry for being nerdy ;) The keynote was a demonstration of Lively Kernel: a Javascript IDE written in Javascript. Unfortunately the Wifi let the speaker down and that's not the first time I saw that happen on a conference. If you're doing a live demo, be sure you get a connection you don't share with the audience. Later the day I realised that it was not possible to do this demo from a local machine because it was meant to show how it works in the cloud. The shapes we did see, were maybe a big archaic, but it made me think that with a little help from a designer, you could actually rapidly develop (small) games. Don't forget that the most popular games are pretty simple: Pong, Pacman, Angry Birds. Later today he did get the chance to finish the demo and even showed some game examples.