My 4th weekly newsletter

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TIL: Unity has way cheaper pricing for students / faculty

I was at Unity’s Unite conference in Seattle this week, and I learned from their education team that Unity has far cheaper licensing for students, faculty, and schools. In partnership with Studica, Unity has discounted costs. Here’s a link to the page.   Also, Autodesk, creators of Maya, 3DS Max, etc., also have FREE versions…

Unite 2014 keynote recap

I’m still at Unite 2014 this week, so I thought I’d deliver a quick recap of the Unite 2014 keynote, courtesy of Jaime Rodriguez, of Microsoft. Here was my favorite talk of Unite as well: Unite 2014 – IL2CPP: The next generation of scripting in Unity Unite 2014 – WebGL Deployment in Unity 5 Opening…

My third weekly newsletter is out

HTML5 Free Udacity course: WebGL and Three.js Microsoft will join Khronos and will participate in the webGL working group The power of WebGL – Assasin’s Creed Pirates, using BabylonJS   Gaming / Game Dev Night Trap Revamped Kickstarter How to get your game covered by YouTubers – Gamaasutra Xamarin’s new 2D C# crossplatform gaming framework…

Boost productivity: Convert YouTube videos to MP3

I’m an avid runner and cyclist, but I can’t stand exercising in silence. Sure, I have tons of nerdy video game music (woohoo, Yuzo Koshiro), but sometimes I also want to learn. I peruse YouTube for different things to learn every day, and generally listen in the background as I work. I find that tech…

Microsoft BizSpark Orientation WorkShop at City Coho Philly Nexus  

Time:                           Wednesday August 13 2014 | 4:00pm to 6:00pm Location:                    City Coho Philly Nexus http://www.citycoho.com/ CityCoHo | Philly Nexus 2401 Walnut St. Suite 102 Philadelphia, PA 19103 Microsoft’s BizSpark is an innovative global program that unites Startups with global entrepreneurial and technology resources in one…

Join my newsletter for gaming, HTML5, and tech

it was only a matter of time before I created my own weekly newsletter. Rather than constantly spam folks on twitter with my links, I’d much prefer to just bunch them up into a weekly letter, and share them with you. Here’s a peek of what is in the first one: Gaming Dev Gamasutra annual…

How does Microsoft compare in the Fortune 500?

Before I joined Microsoft, I was an engineer at Comcast, on their COAM (Consumer Owned and Maintained Devices) team, where I worked on their Xbox 360, Xbox One, and SmartGlass apps. Now that I’m at Microsoft, another Fortune 50 company, I’ve kept a close eye on all of the large tech companies, to see how…

Philadelphia Unity Game Dev Meetup

I recently put together a new meetup for Unity game developers in Philadelphia. This will likely be held at City CoHo Philly Nexus, 2401 Walnut St., Suite 102, Philadelphia, PA (map), and on Monday evenings. The location is ideal, as Drexel University and UPenn are right down the block, and public transit is close by. You can…