NordTech 2009 is over and we sure had a great time!

 

NordTech is a kick-off Avanade have every year where our fellow collegues from Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway meet. It's a really great event where I had the chance to meet both new and old collegues over good food, beer and SPA. This time we met in Ystad Saltsjöbad ( A nice Swedish SPA hotel by the Sea ) and took a plane to denmark/Copenhagen and the bus from denmark to sweden/Ystad.

During this event I had a Silverlight and XNA stand where I on a big screen showed other interessted collegues the silverlight project I had, Microsoft Surface, and my XNA projects ( Grill Simulator ) and how Shaders can be made.

 

I had many visits on my stand and recived a lot of good feedback :) Cool to see that many ppl. interessted in your projects!

 

Anyways, I also got one of the Employee of the year awards( in all the nordic contries ) and won a nice iPod NANO ( the newest model ) and an Avanade bath-coat. :D

 

Thanks for a nice weekend.

 

 

 

The GameCamp is also over and the rumors said it went really well. I'm sad I could not make it there, but next time I will! You can read more about this on www.gamecamp.no , on Einar Ingebritsens blog and on ScottBilas.com. :) Nice work!

The GrillSimulator 360 project is moving on. I'v spent hundreds of hours on this project, and it's finally looking like a game. Still alot to make, lot's of functionality and so on, but I think we are in a good spot for an alpha release during the next weeks.

 

The plan is to release one early alpha version to the Dream-Build-Play 08 contest, deadline September 23rd.

 

I made an application for my XNA Shader Programming series/presentation. Just decided to post a screenshot from the application.

 

The presentation was held at The Gathering 2008, GameCamp Event 2008 and for Avanade Norway in 2008.

 

All tutorials can be found on www.gamecamp.no.

 

If this looks interessting, be sure to join the GameCamp event: www.gamecamp.no/event