Shayla Games 2015
Shayla Games on May 22-24 in Copenhagen, Denmark, is the biggest on-site VR Jam in the world. Fetch tickets and join us for all-VR talks, panels and expo on Friday afternoon, May 22. We will all start...
View ArticleFree hugs
Jon is a lovely Gang Beast and one of my favorite huggers. Jon luckily loves hugging. In fact, he loves hugging SO MUCH that he will give free hugs to every attendee of Shayla Games and these photos...
View ArticleLeap Motions!!!
Holy moly! Our friends at Leap Motion sent us a mountain of controllers. I can’t wait to play with these at Shayla Games. They also included some guidelines and they told me that in order to get the...
View ArticleARM will join us!
ARMSOME!!! I just received an email from some of the nice ARM peeps and they told me to check out this. YEAH, BABY! They will join us May 22-24!! I’m super excited! I’m building for Gear VR myself and...
View ArticleMake it Simplygon
Creating assets optimized for VR can be tricky (oh yeah), but luckily I got this good friend, Koshi, who’s one of the founders of Simplygon (Automagic 3D Optimization) and also a big VR + AR geek....
View ArticleUNITE EUROPE TICKETS FTWinners!!!
Wauw! Our friends at Unity will hand-out Unite Europe tickets to the winners of the jam! Yipihiiiiyeah!!! The always awesome, Mariina Hallikainen, CEO of Colossal Order, will do the guest keynote (they...
View ArticleCreative Coast Festival FTWinners!!
So we make all these amazing VR experiences and games together and then what? Creative Coast Festival has decided to invite the 4 best submissions to exhibit shortly after Shayla Games. May 29 to be...
View ArticleA MAZE Playcase @ShaylaGames
Show us what you’ve got! Shayla Games is all about AMAZEing VR content and Thorsten/A MAZE has made an open call for VR games & experiences for the A MAZE Playcase on Friday May 22. Sign-up here...
View ArticleUI in VR with Master Timster!
Tim Cooper/Unity aka UI Guru aka my room mate will enlighten us on how to create UI’s for VR. With his very own words: VR presents interesting challenges for interfaces. Standard layout, and 2D doesn’t...
View ArticleROKOKO mo-capturing Shayla Games
I was in Iceland for SLUSH Play a few weeks ago and was in the middle of a conversation with one of the nice guys from Leap Motion when I realized that this rather handsome guy standing next to me was...
View ArticleDan Pearson aka The Moderator!
Dan is one of my favorite journalists. He tried to do an interview with me last year over a…no wait…some amount of beers…which turned into hours of my voice randomly rambling about quirky/bizarre game...
View ArticleJohn Wayne on 3D Audio!
The John Wayne of Unity aka Wayne Johnson is ready to take the stage again on Sunday May 24 to share his thoughts and experience on 3D audio for VR. With his own words: Audio has always been a driving...
View ArticleChet!!
This is Chet. Chet is awesome. Chet loves cats. Chet is my favorite person at Valve. Chet is the go-to-guy for VR devs like myself. Chet will join us and help us making great VR content throughout...
View ArticleOculus swagness!
I’ve received a box full of Oculus swag for us all! Below is a photo of the T-shirts presented by Mr. Slash and his white slave. Mr. Slash (aka Shailesh Prabhu) has made a pretty awesome VR game,...
View ArticleVR Kick-off – with Callum!!!
We’ll kick-off the VR Jam itself at 20ish Uhr after a row of amazing talks and the VR panel. I’ve asked Callum to join us on stage and he has promised to do a little dance in his home-grown Viking...
View ArticleTim Garbos – Master of group-forming!
This is Tim Garbos. Tim is a hardcore game jammer, long time organizer of Nordic Game Jam, Exile Game Jam and a lot of other events. Tim is making Progress (literally) together with Joel and Martin...
View ArticleAllegorithmic aka Substance
Every time I type ‘allegorithmic‘ I have to go back and check my spelling, so I prefer calling them SUBSTANCE – which is the name of a series of their excellent tools that I’m completely addicted to...
View ArticlePlastic for us all!
Version control = pain for most game developers. The past year, I’ve been looking for a solution that has a smooth client for both Windows and Mac users, is hosted, has enough space and simple to use...
View ArticleApex Game Tools!!!
I love my family. And I love the fact that my bro, Jake, decided to start working on his dream project last year just before Shayla Games (the 2014 edition) and went on stage to present Apex Game Tools...
View ArticleRazer playcasing OSVR!
Marquis Tan/Razer is flying all the way from Singapore to give us a chance to try Razer’s OSVR. In his own words: OSVR will be around to showcase our Hacker’s Development Kit, the “PC to the Consoles”...
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