Tumbleweed in Tromsø, Talking to Computer Science students at UITØ

I, havchr, had the chance to talk to computer science students in Tromsø about our company, what we stand for, and what we’re doing. Starting off, in what I feel represent our strength and at the same time our weakness, I presented them with a flowchart illustrating our company vision.

Our company pie chart and our passion
The pie chart stated the amount of percent looking like pac-man, and the amount not looking like pac-man.  (link to illustration) Following that, I went more seriously into what drives us when developing games, why our passion is in video games and not pie charts (unless they resemble pac-man)

Since this time the audience was Computer Science students, I felt at home going into more technical details.

I went on to talk about how we programmed the car vs racing track in eXFusion, how we did Skybound for iPhone from a technical point of view, and finally..

Playable Umami
We had a playable build of our PS3 game Umami, for all the students to test. It felt great passing the controller around, seeing how they reacted to the game, how quickly they grasped the concept and hearing laughs from the audience as people were playing.

Pizza Time

There was a good amount of game interested students at the talk, and after the presentation and game playing was done with, there was pizza!

I urged the students to talk with their professors and try to get more game related assignments into their course, as I think game making is a great way to implement a lot of interesting algorithms and a nice way to play with technology.

Tromsø, My home town

Tromsø being my home town, meant that my mother served me homemade dinner with good wine and lots of love. I also dropped by our Tromsø-based graphic artist McKack, who’s doing all our graphics for Umami.

It’s great when we have the chance to meet in person, and he got to test the game running on an actual PS3.

Slides

from the presentation, will be shared soon.

Thanks for reading, and thanks to the excellent
welcome I got from the students in Tromsø
and the members and organizers
of the NorthBridge Computer science student club.