Recently I found out that there's a tech meet up every month or so of local developers and I went to the recent event at the Giant Screen in Birmingham which was quite interesting. It was my first networking event and I met some people from various local developers as well as students like myself and recent graduates. It was quite surprising to find out companies such as Full Fat are located in Coventry, you might've played games such as Flick Golf, Flick Soccer or there latest game Agent Dash. There was a lot of new companies as well and some which hadn't actually brought a product out yet but it was really interesting to find out what there trying to do and how a lot of these companies are quite small and it could even be two or three people. Leo Laporte often says that its best for a business to have someone who manages the business side of things and another to actually manage the company so I suppose some companies do that but then again business' have different ways of management.
The event itself was hosted at the Giant Screen because a company called WallFour had this amazing concept called Renga. Its a 100 player game that lets the audience control the game using laser pointers. It was very interesting to see how the game progressed because initially we had no idea how to control the character but as the event went on we had people realizing how to control the ship and telling others how to do it. By the end of it some of us were controlling the ship and some were beating the enemy's and we were all shouting out on how to defeat an enemy and which upgrade to get for the ship. It was quite cool how we got to that point by the end and we actually ended up beating the main boss really quickly and it would've been nice if it was harder but I guess we were limited by time. Its definitely worth a visit if there doing a demo near you.
