RIA Unleashed 2011

2011-10-27 00:00:00 2011-10-29 00:00:00 America/Toronto RIA Unleashed 2011 FITC is VERY excited to be involved with RIA Unleashed! Guests and speakers from New England and throughout North America will be coming to the 5th Annual RIA Unleashed event this October. This popular, low-cost event is accessible to every budget, and last year’s event… Waltham, MA FITC Waltham, MA

Presentation

Making Tools

October 28 2011, 2:45 - 3:45pm Room: The Executive

Web Dev

Overview

In this presentations I’m going to talk about making tools to make other stuff.

All the best craftsmen make their own tools. OK, I don’t know if that’s true, but it sounds like it could be, right? As a developer, designer, or something in between, if you are relying on generic, off-the-shelf tools for coding and designing, I guarantee you are wasting a lot of your time.

We’ll cover the how and why, and lots of examples (mine and others’) to give you an idea of what’s possible. Tools to make spritesheets for games, to view the clipboard contents, for embedding assets in a swf, for making pixel perfect layouts, tools for making art, etc. We’ll also look at tools for making tools, including MinimalComps.