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The odd ramblings of a geek pretending to not be "all grown up"

STEM Evangelism, here I come

A couple of months ago, I joined a new team in Microsoft, one focused on something I hold near and...

Date: 06/13/2016

Creating Great Apps

Note: This is a summary of a guide that I and a couple of other great people worked on – link to the...

Date: 07/31/2013

Quick Coaching Session for Imagine Cup Games

As the deadline is fast approaching for the online Imagine Cup Games competition, we thought it...

Date: 03/25/2013

WOWZAPP 2012: Want to get involved?

I’m truly excited about WOWZAPP 2012: Worldwide Hackathon for Windows, and it’s great to see all...

Date: 10/15/2012

  With the general availability of Windows 8 rapidly approaching (October 26, if you missed the...

Date: 09/11/2012

Courses for Windows 8

If you’re teaching development in a school or college and want to bring your content up to date with...

Date: 08/09/2012

Game Design Winners Announced!

The World Festival of Imagine Cup 2012 is on right now in Sydney, Australia and I'm ecstatic to...

Date: 07/10/2012

Final Six for Software Design Announced

Just minutes ago the top six teams were announced for the Software Design competition of Imagine Cup...

Date: 07/08/2012

Top Ten for Game Design

Congratulations to the top five teams in the two Game Design tracks for progressing to the final...

Date: 07/07/2012

Top Twenty Software Design Finalist Teams

Just moments ago we announced the top twenty teams at the Imagine Cup worldwide finals in Sydney,...

Date: 07/07/2012

Imagine Cup 2012 Game Design Finalists – Xbox/Windows

Here we are again! Another year and another brilliant batch of games that have wowed the judges....

Date: 05/23/2012

GlobalGameJam – It’s On, We’re There!

I’m totally excited for this weekend. It’s the annual GlobalGameJam where hundreds of...

Date: 01/26/2012

Just One More Week To Enter The Rock Paper Azure Fall Sweepstakes!

Normally I like to write my own text for my blog posts, but my team mate, Peter Laudati, has done a...

Date: 12/10/2011

Cool Apps – Parcel Tracker

I am constantly discovering super cool apps for the Windows Phone and a team mate suggested I should...

Date: 12/06/2011

Game Design Scoring Rubric 2012

One question that crops up a lot when I talk to students about the Game Design competitions is how...

Date: 12/06/2011

Where to start… Windows Phone applications

In a recent post, I walked through the process of getting up and running with DreamSpark, AppHub,...

Date: 11/14/2011

Where is MrAndyPuppy this week?

I truly love my job. It takes me to exotic places like Cairo, Warsaw and Paris. It gets my...

Date: 11/10/2011

Winter XNA Games – Learn, Compete, Have Fun!

We’re holding another game camp, this time a mega-one! We have four different activities to choose...

Date: 10/31/2011

Game Design Office Hours

To make it easier to ask questions about Imagine Cup and Game Design, I’ve set up a series of...

Date: 10/28/2011

New York Code Camp – Register before it’s too late

The sixth New York City Code Camp is just around the corner – have you registered yet? It’s going to...

Date: 09/14/2011

Phone Camps are GO!

A Phone Camp is an all day event where you get to go hands on with Windows Phone 7.0 and 7.5,...

Date: 09/14/2011

100 Students, 22 Schools – Now THAT’S a Game Camp!

WOOHOO! The third game camp for New York is at a close and it finished off an amazing February with...

Date: 03/13/2011

Want to learn how to build your own games for Xbox or Phone?

If you do – I strongly encourage you to keep an eye out for game camps in your area or even better...

Date: 02/25/2011

HTML5 Inspiration

If you’re keen to try your hand at HTML5 for the web track of Game Design in Imagine Cup this year...

Date: 02/19/2011

Imagine Cup Live Meeting recordings

Just a heads up that the two live meetings we held last week to field questions and cover...

Date: 02/17/2011

We <3 Games – Flickr Set

I’ve uploaded a few photos from the We <3 Games weekend at Rochester Institute of Technology to...

Date: 02/13/2011

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