Greetings!

The video streaming from IGC2007 in Eugene was mostly a success.  We had a few network outages at the conference centre and some silly folks causing IP address conflicts, but overall the stream maintained its integrity.  We were able to show nearly all of the presentations and round tables, and even carried the world premiere of Jeff Tunnel’s band, The Procrastinators, on Wednesday night.

At its peak there were 117 developers tuning in on Wednesday afternoon.  That’s not bad considering the video stream was only announced at 2:00am Wednesday morning in my GarageGames blog.

The terrific people at Ustream.tv were in contact with me during the event to make sure that everything was going smoothly at their end.  They even provided me with a beta version of their software that greatly improved the video and audio quality of the stream.  I tested this on Tuesday during a private, Associates only screening where those attending noticed quite a difference, especially in the audio.

All of the presentations were recorded to video tape and the folks at GarageGames are determining how to best get this on the Internet.  I’ll be sure to let you know when and where you can get your hands on this.

- Dave

Can’t make it to IGC2007 this year?  I’m going to attempt a live video stream from the conference Wednesday Oct 10 and Thursday Oct 11.  This hasn’t been done before from the conference centre so the actual video quality is up in the air right now.  Come join the fun on the IGC2007 page.

- Dave

Greetings!

I’ve been working on a product to provide video streaming to the Internet from within the Torque Game Engine.  I’ve written about the first steps on my GarageGames Blog.  Please head on over to find out more.

- Dave

Welcome to Gnometech.tv, the sister site to Gnometech.com.  Here you’ll find various experiments in Web 2.0 technology built by the Gnomes you’ve come to love.  Enjoy!

- Dave