Last GDC, we made an iPhone app for friends at the conference, but it got stuck in submission for too long (Apple was being paranoid about anything with location\/GPS at the time. Sigh) and only a handful of people got to use the app (our beta testers).<\/p>\n
We ended up re-using the tech (and improving it) for client projects during the year – including a 4-star app for the Venice Biennale (100,000 people descend on Venice for Art\/Architecture festival).<\/p>\n
GDC’s organizers didn’t want an app for 2011 – the last we spoke, they’d commissioned a mobile website instead. As they pointed out, it may be lowest-common-denominator, and lots of usability problems (what do you do when you have no internet?), but it’s likely to work for the BlackBerry users, unlike an iPhone\/Android app.<\/p>\n
But it looks like we’ll have some free time \/ spare cash in February, so I was wondering if it was worth updating our app from last year, and putting it into submission really early this time.<\/p>\n
Votes yay\/nay?<\/p>\n
The tech we built works out where all your friends\/colleagues are right now (iPhone only), and includes stuff like a live-updated list of all the unofficial parties (this year there were about 25 parties, only 5 of which were on the conference website, IIRC)<\/p>\n
EDIT: PS – if we’re paying for this ourselves, we couldn’t afford an Android port, so this would be iPhone only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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