Ideas for posts

[Miguel Á. Friginal]

I was reading Brandon Alexander's post from yesterday (http://
www.whilethis.com/2011/08/introductions/) and though of giving him a
hand with this part of it: "If any of you out there have some ideas
for topics, please comment on this post and I’ll start up a 'need to
write about' list so I can get some brainstorming started."

Giving ideas for topics when you don't know the skills of the writer
can be complicated, but we are a pretty eclectic group here (already
more than 60!) and we could all use some topics to write about next.
Care to share some here?

These are some of the things I would personally love to read more
about:

- Multiplayer gaming (both the new turn-by-turn API and real-time), or
networking in general.
- Design challenges (the why we did things this way kind, like my
latest; love to read about the problems other teams had to deal with)
and postmortems.
- Animation. More the art side of it than the technical one, but hey,
tech would not be bad either.
- Experiences of indies contracting PR/marketing firms. Can they help
sales without a massive amount of money backing you up?
- Audio units and other audio topics (actually an intro to audio on
iOS series would be great).

Share yours, or pick one for your next post.

—Miguel

[Antoni Masso Mola]

Hello Miguel,

I was actually thinking on writing an audio tutorial for my next contribution. Game optimization could also be an interesting topic.

Antoni

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[Brandon Alexander]

I'm planning on writing about the following topics over the next few weeks.  Since I'm not a game developer, they are more programming centered:

- ARC

- An Intro to the Objective-C Runtime

- Core Data

When the NDA for iOS 5 is lifted:

- Xcode 4.2 changes

- Storyboards

- Skinning cocoa controls

- Instruments

That's quite a bit of stuff there and if anyone wants to tackle one or more of those topics (or a subset of a larger topic) feel free!

Brandon

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Brandon Alexander

[Raimon Zamora]

I'm writing a big postmortem-like serie of posts about my game Qvoid:

The Six Sides Of The Qvoid: Design

The Six Sides Of The Qvoid: Coding

The Six Sides Of The Qvoid: Art

The Six Sides Of The Qvoid: Sound

The Six Sides Of The Qvoid: Marketing

The Six Sides Of The Qvoid: Health

Raimon Zamora

Gavina Games

[Miguel Á. Friginal]

Just to be clear, iDevBlogADay is not about game development (that one
is AltDevBlogADay), but about iOS dev. So is more than OK to post
about other types of apps :)

—Miguel

On Aug 26, 7:53 am, Brandon Alexander <brandon.alexan...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm planning on writing about the following topics over the next few weeks.
>  Since I'm not a game developer, they are more programming centered:
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> - ARC
> - An Intro to the Objective-C Runtime
> - Core Data
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> When the NDA for iOS 5 is lifted:
> - Xcode 4.2 changes
> - Storyboards
> - Skinning cocoa controls
> - Instruments
>
> That's quite a bit of stuff there and if anyone wants to tackle one or more
> of those topics (or a subset of a larger topic) feel free!
>
> Brandon
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> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Antoni Masso Mola <
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> antonimassom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Miguel,
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> > I was actually thinking on writing an audio tutorial for my next
> > contribution. Game optimization could also be an interesting topic.
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> > Antoni
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> > Sent from my iPhone
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> > On 26/08/2011, at 16:33, Miguel Á. Friginal <miguel.frigi...@gmail.com>

[Luke Rogers]

Would love to see a post explaining blocks. Also a history of of Objective C and the OS tracing it back to NeXT I think would be really interesting.

Luke

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