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GUADEC is going really well this year, great to catch up with folks. A big thank you to everyone who came along to my tips and tricks talk yesterday. I hope that everyone discovered something new; I certainly did whilst preparing it. As suggested i’ll try and get this content all collated up into a wiki page. Watch this space.

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I did my first ever talk at Guadec this year along with Damien and Chris. Thankfully there were no disasters apart from that I was pretty nervous and probably incomprehensible.

My part of the talk was about Mash which is a library for making ClutterActors out of 3D models. I forgot to give any links to where to get the code in the presentation however. I made the first release (0.1.0) before Guadec. It includes full gtk-doc and introspection support so it should be ready to play with if anybody wants to try it. It's quite likely that I'll change the API if I make another release though so please bear in mind that it's still a work in progress.

There is a wiki page with download links here.

I also demoed DFight which I've blogged about before and a ridiculous example game called Robot Pony. The source for robot pony is in a git repo here:

I probably also should have mentioned that the example code in the slides was using the semi-complete Ruby bindings. They are on the clutter-1.2 branch including bindings for Mash at:

I'm also trying to make an Ubuntu package for it. If I can get it working, it will be available from here

Damien, Neil and I gave our joint talk about doing interesting and unusual things in Clutter yesterday. I think it went down alright, hopefully we can give more of this kind of talk in the future, showing people how you can use Clutter in cool ways.

For my part of the talk, I spoke about developing small, fun games. I intended the advice I gave to apply to developing any small game with anything, though it definitely applies to making games in Clutter. You can find the text and slides for my talk here. Like Neil and Damien (and the rest of the Intel OTC crew), I wrote my talk in pinpoint, pippin's excellent, new, Clutter-based presentation tool.

I wrote two games before the talk:

Both of these games are available from my git repository. Pill-popper works with any recent version of Mx and Clutter, Happy Wombats currently requires master clutter-box2d and the 'kinetic-scrolling' branch of Mx (which should shortly be merged - I'll update this post when it is). When these games are more complete, I hope to submit them to the MeeGo garage, and perhaps suggest their inclusion for gnome-games.

Happy Wombats includes an editor, so I'd love to receive some levels at some point. I'll be improving things soon, but it's already quite easy to use. Guadec has been great so far, I hope we can keep up the momentum of awesome developments until the next one :)

since I’m stupid and I scheduled the team meeting before I could actually be in The Hague, I had to move the meeting. and, again, since I’m stupid I managed to schedule it against important talks of the day — and my own.

so: the GTK+ team meeting has been moved to the common area after the last talk of Wednesday, July 28th. sorry for the inconvenience I caused, and please don’t hurt me when you see me.

I’ve recently been working on a new background chooser for GNOME, which supports multiple “sources” of backgrounds. Today I used libsocialweb to integrate support for browsing the user’s photostream from flickr.

The UI is still a work in progress, I’m hoping to land it before the feature freeze at the end of the week.

I’ll also be at Guadec this week, but only for the 28th and 29th. See you there!

Thanks to the awesome Nick Richards, I have new hosting (the old OpenedHand server that hosted my site is disappearing soon :(). If you're reading this, everything has gone smoothly :)

Oh, and I'll be at Guadec, presenting a talk with Damien Lespiau and Neil Roberts. You won't want to miss it!