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Not quite sure why I agreed to this...
Photograph courtesy of Ian ‘Faffage’ Patrick

Weapon7’s founder and CEO, Steven Hess is leaving so to mark the occasion and give him a good send-off everyone in the office was interviewed and asked 5 questions about him. I had the job of editing the footage into a comprehensive video. I only had the day to do it so it’s not as polished as I would have hoped but it was a good chance try out my video editing skills.

Between HTML5’s GamepadAPI and Kinect for Windows SDK the world of physical computing is at our fingertips as the endeavours of enthusiasts looking to use these input devices for applications beyond the realm of gaming gets official support.

Building my own website has always been the pet project I use to experiment, learn and develop new skills but often this means it gets scrapped and restarted long before it's finished. First resolution of the year was to change that...

The 'gamification' buzz word has been appearing more and more in recent times but I believe there is greater opportunity to learn from the underlying methods of how games are put together rather than the morally dubious attempts to use principles of play to re-enforce wholly negative behaviour.