Recommended Freelancer: @ibnutri

Ibnu Triyono is a part-time web developer, part-time iOS/Android game programmer. I recommend him for your freelance work due to his expertise and experience. Superb communication skill makes him fun to work with.

Ibnu’s Specialties

• LUA
• Corona SDK
• Moai SDK
• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• PHP
• CodeIgniter
• Web API

Ibnu’s Previous Projects

• Danville Yoga Center
• Kolonien
• Dinglasan Dental
• Sunol Paintball
• Jam Gadang (a Twitter account that tells you what time it is in GMT+7)
• Wiki Bot (a Twitter account that randomly tweets Wikipedia pages)

Check Ibnu’s online resume for more info.

 

GDC 2011: @truffle’s Tweets on Player Retention in Social Games

Christina Norman (@truffle) is currently working for Bioware. She designs Mass Effect games. Here are her tweets livereporting Game Developers Conference 2011, particularly about player retention in social games.

Social games focus too much on short term tricks to try and retain and squeeze players at the expense of long term relationships #gdc11—
Christina Norman (@truffle) March 01, 2011

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GDC 2011: @truffle’s Tweets on Developing Story in Social Games

Christina Norman (@truffle) is currently working for Bioware. She designs Mass Effect games. Here are her tweets livereporting Game Developers Conference 2011, particularly about developing story in social games.

Presenter is showing that character and story in social games is already moving forward incredibly fast. Story is already important.—
Christina Norman (@truffle) March 01, 2011

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GDC 2011: @truffle’s Tweets on Behavioral Economics Talk

Christina Norman (@truffle) is currently working for Bioware. She designs Mass Effect games. Here are her tweets livereporting Game Developers Conference 2011, particularly about understanding and implementing behavioral economics in game development.

In a behavioral economics talk. Fancy words for the psychology of buying stuff in games! Seems good so far more psych than biz.—
Christina Norman (@truffle) March 01, 2011

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The Simplest Bookmark Origami

Of all bookmark origami, I heart this one the most. It’s easy and fast, with a paper bookmark that won’t damage my books in the end.

Have fun!

 

Have Fun Go Mad with #Ionopolis Comic Maker

Ionopolis, a social media integrated HTML5 game developed by Magnivate, has come to its next, really-close-to-final stage: Comic Maker.

 

Integrating 3 Social Medias, #Ionopolis is NOT a Social Game

No kidding, Indonesians are in fact powerful in social medias. Indonesia is the 2nd after Brazil in Twitter reach studied by ComScore. I’ve also noticed on several occasions that Indonesians have often dominated trending topics. Approximately 26 million Facebook users are Indonesians. While on Foursquare, I’ll say no more, this image clearly explains it. *thank you, Nguping Teknologi!

On the darker side, when something fun blasts (for free) and everyone can’t get enough of it, that’s when the brands come in. They’ve sickened me to death with the most basic method of advertising: “Hey, I’ve got this for you. Just follow me.” Only God knows how many times I’ve been blocking spambots and brands trying to get more followers on Twitter.

People naturally dislike being persuaded, or even forced, to buy stuff. That may be the reason why I find Ionopolis, a game published by Pocari Sweat, interesting. After the genius brand campaign of Old Spice, Ionopolis is definitely worth to remember.

 

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I Review

It’s never easy to convert books–especially those coming from fantasy genre, and more especially those with millions of devoted fans–into movies. When the first title of the J.K. Rowling’s masterpiece was brought to big screen, I was one of fans whose excitement turned quickly to disappointment. The next chapters weren’t changed much, although the 3rd one (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) successfully captured a glimpse of the series’ dark essence. It kept going darker and darker, yet the ridiculous efforts to present top notch CGI-generated scenes (when they should have focused more on story and characters development) were still pathetic.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I fixes it. Finally. Thank goodness.

 

Tweet of the Day: Please Log In to Log Out

A twitpic by @pipis. ROFLMAO!

 

Retrograde

image: sodahead

“What’s wrong, D?”

That very question has been asked by 4 people within a week.