Paris B-A » wwdc09 http://paris.id.au The personal domain of Paris Buttfield-Addison, opinionated bastard, HCI graduate researcher, author and co-founder of Secret Lab. I teach people things, write books and research papers, develop iPhone and iPad apps and games, and wander the world looking for coffee. Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:53:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Secret Lab’s travel schedule http://paris.id.au/secret-labs-travel-schedule/ http://paris.id.au/secret-labs-travel-schedule/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:49:00 +0000 Paris Buttfield-Addison http://paris.id.au/?p=153 Just to give a little justification as to why blog posts have been so lacking lately, here is most of Secret Lab’s, and my, recent (and future) travel schedule!

  • June 2009 – July 2009: Attending Apple’s WWDC in San Francisco, CA, meetings in Los Angeles, CA (6 weeks)
  • August 2009 – September 2009: Meetings and business in Mountain View, CA (2 weeks)
  • September 2009: Speaking at the AUC /dev/world/2009 Conference in Canberra (3 days)
  • October 2009: Impromptu trip to Melbourne to visit the United States Consulate for Non-Immigrant Processing (2 days)
  • October 2009: Working on-site with client in Mountain View, CA (1 week)
  • October 2009: Attending Unity’s Unite 2009 Conference in San Francisco, CA (1 week)
  • October 2009 – November 2009: Working on-site with client in Mountain View, CA (4 weeks)
  • November 2009: Presenting at OZCHI 2009 in Melbourne (1 week)
  • December 2009: Presenting at the AUC CreateWorld 2009 Conference in Brisbane (3 days)
  • December 2009: Running the 3-day intensive AUC Unity Workshop in Sydney (3 days)
  • December 2009: (Tentative) Running 3-day iPhone Workshop in Melbourne (3 days)

Phew.

]]> http://paris.id.au/secret-labs-travel-schedule/feed/ 0 The Red Phone; The Red Robot (Box) http://paris.id.au/the-red-phone-the-red-robot-box/ http://paris.id.au/the-red-phone-the-red-robot-box/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:25:06 +0000 Paris Buttfield-Addison http://paris.id.au/?p=135 Secret Lab answering the Red Phone with Doctor Tiki and Tiki Tosca

Secret Lab answering the Red Phone with Doctor Tiki and Tiki Tosca

That is all. More on San Francisco and Los Angeles soon!

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On a more entertaining note, the new PopCap game, Plants vs. Zombies is one of the greatest “casual games” I’ve ever had the fortune to play. I so thoroughly enjoyed it during the 60 minutes of trial gameplay that I immediately paid for it (a bargain at $30 AUD). I’ve been playing for at least 6 hours so far and it shows no signs of slowing down! Not to mention it has an awesome sandbox mode and a series of great mini-games.

A mere 24 days until departure for San Francisco!

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More congratulations are due to another friend, Jess “EvilJess” Lethbridge, who has scored an ADC Student Scholarship to WWDC 2009. She joins the UTAS delegation being sent by the AUC: me, Andrew Bennett, Jon Manning, Josh Deprez, Jess Clarke and our evil lab-master, Tony Gray.

Our departure for WWDC is a little under 4 weeks away! A good time is sure to be had by all! In other news, the press release for Secret Lab’s game, Day of the Tiki has gone out! Look upon it and marvel!

]]> http://paris.id.au/more-congratulations-wwdc/feed/ 0 More congratulations! http://paris.id.au/more-congratulations/ http://paris.id.au/more-congratulations/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:36:06 +0000 Paris Buttfield-Addison http://paris.id.au/?p=119 Almost forgot in the recent excitement: congratulations to my friends Jess Clarke and Josh Deprez, both of whom received Apple University Consortium (AUC) WWDC Scholarships. They will be joining Andrew, Jon and myself as part of the very large AUC delegation this year.

It’s also pretty cool that the AUC has Twitter now!

]]> http://paris.id.au/more-congratulations/feed/ 0 Tiki Bar TV: Day of the Tiki http://paris.id.au/tiki-bar-tv-day-of-the-tiki/ http://paris.id.au/tiki-bar-tv-day-of-the-tiki/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:39:27 +0000 Paris Buttfield-Addison http://paris.id.au/?p=115 Tiki Bar TVOne of my secret projects finally revealed! My team and I at Secret Lab are working on the first official video game based on the incredibly amazing and successful video podcast, Tiki Bar TV. That’s right – Secret Lab is developing a game for the most amazing entertainment podcast on the planet! Day of the Tiki will be coming out in Summer (Northern Hemisphere) this year.

We’ve been working on it for a while now, we think you’re going to love it. If you haven’t watched the (hilarious) podcast yet, I’d suggest you go and do so now. Tiki Bar TV is one of the most original and hilarious things on the internet: dancing! intrigue! Russians! pirates! drinking! more drinking!

Tiki Bar TV

Visit our webpage about Day of the Tiki, see the official announcement, or chat on the Tiki Bar TV Community. Don’t forget to stay tuned for more exciting updates! And of course, follow @thesecretlab on Twitter! Any press enquiries, please email me! Contact details can be found on the left of this page.

Stay tuned, there’ll be a trailer sometime in the near future as well as a trickle of media constantly until the release. It’s all very exciting!

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“Project F”, also known as Secret Project, has been progressing extremely well. Many late nights have been spent working with the team: Andrew Bennett (Art), Jon Manning (Programming), Josh Deprez (Music), Zen Miles (Gameplay), Peter Lyle (Gameplay, Project Management) and myself (Producer). We’re in the middle stages of development right now and most of our time (with the exception of Andrew, who is busy 3D modelling, and Jon, who is busy coding the engine) has been spent designing levels (yes, Secret Project is a game!) Zen Miles, Andrew Bennett and Jon Manning hard at work!

We think we’ll start talking about it sometime within the next month, release is still scheduled for early June (around when everyone suspects WWDC will be!) Speaking of WWDC, I’m greatly looking forward to the now annual pilgrimage to San Francisco. Lots of exciting things are happening with Secret Lab at the moment and I can’t wait to tell the rest of the world about them. Hopefully I’ll see lots of you there!

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My PhD is progressing well, not that much has happened – I’ve spent academic year thus far writing a few journal and conference papers, only one of which has been submitted yet – more on this as we receive it! I’m going to spend my time drinking coffee and working on cool things with Secret Lab. Until next time, everyone should go and watch robot friend, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Battlestar Galactica and Chuck. I’ll be posting more soon, with news of Button Squid and his new friend, Twitter! See you then!

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