One of my favourite memories is of a recent summer I spent back home. While visiting a good friend, I took a day trip downtown, and stumbled with her into a gorgeous bookstore nestled at the corner of one of Vancouver's busiest streets. Straight away, we made a beeline for the top of the three story building - itself shaped like a massive glass novel - to our Shangri La: the children's section.
When a developer shares a developer diary with us, the term "diary" is usually something of a misnomer. Matthew Hall, the mind behind the one man studio KlickTock, decided to take the word literally - and we couldn't be more delighted that he did. What follows is a fantastic journal showcasing Matthew's day-by-day thoughts and experiences over the last two months as he prepared his upcoming mobile game ZONR for release.
Robert Nay is a tremendously successful little man. Only 14 years old, Nay developed the iPhone game Bubble Ball, which quickly soared up the charts in January to become the #1 free iPhone app for a number of continuous days. But while Robert's story is heart-warming, we're also concerned about the young man's future. College isn't cheap, and being a full time game developer is hard work. We picked the brains of 4 industry veterans to see what advice they might have for young Robert.