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We’ve been delighted this week and last with how much media attention the LiveCode Game Academy has received.
Dave Hamilton got the ball rolling a couple of weeks ago in his MacGeekGab podcast. Dave was telling the story of how he and his son made their iPhone app the previous day. The made the whole app between the time his son woke up and when he had to go to school. How did they make it so fast? Yup, you’ve guess it, using LiveCode of course. Even though he wasn’t familiar with the environment, they still had a simple hello world built in about ten minutes, ready to deploy to his son’s ipod nano after school. Dave’s son is now really excited about the academy, and “at the ripe old age of ten” he will be joining Dave on the course so that they can build their first game together. Our heartfelt welcome to both father and son – I'm really excited to see how they get on.
Todd Bernhard in iPhone Life Magazine said that if you’ve always wanted to create your own apps, but didn’t know where to start, LiveCode and the LiveCode Game Academy, are an easy way to get started. And in his 4 Star Review of LiveCode in the Cult of Mac magazine David Martin says that “LiveCode 5 is a quick and powerful package for app design”. He encouraged his readers to give the Academy a try, saying “You’ve got nothing to lose but your time. Time that might turn you into the next big game or app developer!” Adrian Bridgewater, writing for Computer Weekly tells us just how big a game can be. “We invest three billion hours a week playing online games. So games, as we know, have become mainstream big business and now enjoy as much publicity hype as new movie releases.” You never know, that publicity and hype could belong to one of the apps made during the next two months. It might be even be yours!
Kelly Guimont in TUAW agrees. “If you want to be a mobile developer” she says “you have a prime opportunity to make it happen”. She’s talking about the Academy of course, and tells her readers about how you can learn to make a mobile game: "nothing fancy, just a little fun thing to help you learn your way around LiveCode".
And it's with a quote from Kelly Guimont that I will finish up:
"I'm excited about it, and already signed up. Will you be there?"