In part one of my interview with Colin Macdonald we discussed how he got involved in the games industry and some of the global issues concerning development of a game like APB. Missed it then catch up here.
Previously we'd been talking to Shanna about how she accidentally fell into the industry and the Wild Pockets engine itself but in part 2 we discuss setting up your own small business, how she's been treated as a woman in the industry and more.
Recently Shanna Tellerman was across in Dundee to talk to, our good friends, Girl Geek Scotland, at their latest event. The Girl Geek team put us in contact and so staff writer, and soon to be US Correspondent, Rachel Shadoan and I went to meet her
Well pizza has been and gone and SquareGo made sure that they got a slice before events moved on. There was a palpable urgency to be seen with some teams relaying food to fellow workers contemplating mathematical conundrums.
The Realtime Worlds Student Programming Competition could be viewed as a step on the road from study to employment. Teams of students get a chance to prove their abilities with a selection of tough questions designed to test programming ability through, "pure technical problem solving".