Go or no go?

Doubt was with the service or not the event. I read a blog of entrepreneurs: Startup Weekend Madrid a meeting of entrepreneurs from various fields, technology, design, marketing, business and the goal of developing an idea from Friday June 3 in the afternoon, Saturday and Sunday in a marathon work to appear before a jury of 4 inverters on Sunday evening.

I signed, I took the ticket Santiago - Madrid, book a hotel near the metro in the Gran Via and packed my things. On the flight I wondered whether or not to submit an idea. It is somewhat difficult: first "deliver" your idea to an audience unfamiliar second trial with the possibility of being devalued, third, the challenge given to understand and convey the idea in just 1 minute.

Have an idea

For the girls event organized grouping They 2.0 (which is the flag to encourage and support women who dare to undertake) had emailed us with some very interesting slides about how to give your Elevator Pitch of 1 minute: present, pose a problem and your solution that makes highlighting the innovative and original. I wrote my idea and then I read taking my time with the iPhone stopwatch. Conclusion: impossible to say everything in 1 minute!. So things had to be cut and phrases, adjectives ... and ... best to write again.

Arrived that Friday afternoon and the meeting was interesting, I exchanged words with several participants, the usual questions of "you're doing?", "You will present idea?", "Is the first time you come to an event like this? ". Madrid OnRails space was 100%, we were 90 entrepreneurs and soon we blow up the wifi router!. 33 we presented ideas, I was number 26 and while watching the parade of 60 seconds of my ancestors I became more and more nervous.

He opened fire: "My name is Juan Ignacio and I come to propose to create the toy of the future ..."

I left my 60 seconds of pure adrenaline, the heart was beating and beating me. The proposals were then voted and only a few survive to the next stage, we became 17 and had to settle for multidisciplinary teams to tackle the rest of the weekend. I almost immediately four members: Mathew American designer, game designer Antonio, Juan Diego creative marketer and Jimmy a manufacturing expert and social relationships. Later we join Clara, mother and web designer.

Undertake Saturday and Sunday

What I can say? For me it was clear that if these five people were on my team and support my idea was they were crazier than me. But what a nice time! It's amazing to see other people get involved in your project and work involved and really believe in what they are doing. During Saturday and Sunday work hard, but we allow outputs, lectures and many jokes. Work having fun, surrounded by dolls, toys, with aluminum foil on their heads to try to improve the wifi signal and know a little more between us. Do not forget that just hours before we were totally unknown.

Thus was born PincheToys , a toy hybrid between real and virtual children. A "multi-world toy." We liked the idea, but as much as we liked also thought it was the wildest of the 10 that were to present this Sunday 19hs before the investors .

It was 18.30hs and ended our Powerpoint. Now to try!? No. There was no time and also as I said Jimmy, "which comes out naturally." I like crazy ... I thought, "this will be a disaster."

Go out there

Presentations began and we were number 6. The other very interesting projects, good proposals, but when they reached the returns of investors saw how quickly detect weaknesses and weak spots.

It was our turn, I had taken a shot of whiskey before going out there but only found Coca Light.

We start our presentation and miraculously was out, flowed ... it was giving an informal talk as explanatory and touches of humor. Applause. Our return was initiated by Dove Hair (the MIT!) Who told us that although he had seen other usb dolls on the market liked the creativity in the proposal and also be useful both in the computer game as in real life. We had a very positive response! of course we said we would have to handle well the Logistic and distribution to achieve our company stores.

I was very happy with everything, how it came, we put together a good team, great work we had done. FIN, was done for me. Weekend over, very happy, it was worth all the effort.

And then the impossible happened: the jury selected us as the Best Project .

I IN CRE BLE.

A weekend of madness.

As some know, I like to customize everything!, The weather gave way (try) to my home drawing www.crystian.net now occurred to me to do the same with twitter and youtube. I started youtube to see if I could do something, and if you can elaborate half, probably intentionally did for anyone (not just the partners) can change the look of the channel.

Basically put a background image, and then put the html visual elements (edges, etc.) transparent

This was my channel:

http://www.youtube.com/crystian77

An important point is that you can not change the "structure" This is usually applied as a skin . More than a modification that does not mean you can do something interesting, you just have to be more creative.

What he proposes is youtube customize colors, fonts, with preset themes, but we also have an advanced mode in which we can customize (customize in Spanglish) colors and also add a background image as a repetitive, mosaic or without repeat ( in this mode focuses the image to the channel), and also has a rather interesting choice of transparency, which we will exploit. Lets get started

STRUCTURE:

The first is to define panels and modules that will be the channel

Then locate and arrange them as you want (using the arrows) in the mobile panels.

In my case I organized in the following way:

Now we need to extract the skeleton of this structure to begin to design, to create a new topic that deploy "themes and colors" then "new topic", we put a name like "model" and modify the colors to highlight the structure of the site promptly and we know we're seeing, for example like this:

We can clearly see the structure itself is graphically ugly but think that is the skeleton, lacks the "skin" that we build.

Next step, full screenshot of the entire channel and take you to photoshop (or your favorite image editor)

Since firefox can use FireShot plugin or some similar, if not, with alt + print screen (this is the first key of the three keys that you used ever full of dust that are above the numeric keypad on the left)

Now in your image editor focused short image leaving the structure, paying close attention to this point, if you go up and then not centered you should only add more pixels to one side to center.

ART:

You create a new layer and then at this, "paint" over your new skin, for example in this case we simulate freehand. It is clear that at this point one can do whatever you want (would be interesting to a metal) in this free your creativity to the fullest!

Explain how I did mine. Basically paint with a brush like a pen stroke, making stroke the imperfections of the hand to make it more realistic.

It is good practice once you have minimal structure to see how they go up, tune and resolve any problem before proceeding.

Then I put a newspaper-type paper background, below and above this add things on my desk today, "links" to personal projects, things I like, or even define me, just to keep my style and be consistent with me I am sometimes

To look "real", almost everything has a shadow, it gives depth to the image and thus is more realistic. Some things, like notes and texts were scanned.

Once you have left over something like this:

Let youtube and create a new topic, you set the colors according to the style he took, and how important, we clear the structure:

And with this we have our custom channel, but not change the basic structure, changing the way we show our channel.

Maximum size:

For the background image seems to have a maximum upload size in terms of resolution, but if "weight" must not exceed the 256k, as the resolution size is usually large, it is necessary to compress in exchange for sacrificing quality jpg format using, I am using more or less as 45% according to the "save for web & devices" in photoshop.

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If you liked this post, retwitealo, pass it to your friends, and give it to your mom on her birthday to improve channel , Je post, if you like forward it

If you used it or not, comments on this post and put your channel for all to see

Enjoy

NOTE: If you have an issue when you click on play lists have the same background, barely noticeable, but bueh.

I just finished the second version of this map, I must say that I learned to use the map editor (Radiant) to the pair while developing it, therefore it can be improved a lot, but as I am unfortunately very bad times, I decide to continue "as is" for now the gameplay is supporting Free-for-all, Team Deathmatch, Domination and Sabotage hare then (and perhaps HQ) for the next versions.

The time spent was 13 hours in total (considering that I have previous knowledge in developing maps for the Source engine (half-life2/Counter Strike source))

Screenshots:

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Video:

Thanks to "one" http://advancedwartutorials.blogspot.com/ , I could learn to develop maps for radiant, covers all aspects of how to build from scratch a map for COD4, if you want this will undoubtedly pasate of this site.

Why this book? Because that work, there are the offices of Delapalo and was an interesting and fun challenge

Download from here:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HENOCKAV

Installation:

In the Zip folders are the Mods and usermaps, decompress on installing COD4 ("c: \ Program Files \ Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare \")

Entering the game in multiplayer mode, select "Mods", then in the console (press the left wing buzzword that lowering the number 1 console, type "/ map mp_hotel" if all is well start loading the map if nothing happens, is copied wrong map.

Accepted opinions, recommendations and

Greetings and enjoy

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Trucacho Project - The trick on facebook! - Our installment buyings public first application in the world of social networks.

• Over 9000 lines of code.
• Surpassing the 1,000 extra hours of programming work, sacrificed weekends, wives and friends eager to blame.
• Spanning 100 days between winter and spring in Buenos Aires.
• Overcoming high blood pressure and peak daily stress.
• Averaging 3 coffees a day and pastafrola.
• Two people elbowing, diagrams, drawings and researching.
• We achieved a Game ... But what a game!

This is the screen play of four!

Features

Trucacho is the trick play, with Spanish cards, no flowers, online play online.
You can compete at 2.4 and 6. A 15 points. With spicy funny phrases to give the matter. You can reflect your status with comments, play with your friends or anyone who is connected to Facebook.
Besides your individual score sums for the world ranking based on your game and your strategy wins. Beat the best!.

Why did the trick?

Because it is a game our good, public knowledge, because it's fun, complicated and far-fetched to schedule and we like challenges. The trick is entertainment par excellence that is played when you hit the road, picnic, camp or holiday. As we venture into the innovative social networks, it seems a good start a card game popular, dynamic, deceptive and intriguing.

Why Facebook?

Our idea is to make applications for social networks in general. Today we chose Facebook for several reasons, including because it is the fastest growing and most popular because it provides an API for developers to include applications easily in the context of the site. He has also had a great insight to the public in Argentina, Chile, and Latin America in general, since January 2008.

I want to start playing right away!

It's easy, first you have to be logged into your account to Facebook , then go to the direction of our application . You give permission and once you enter the Home, you click "Play." Choose a table from the available or create your own table and started playing.
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I play with my friends!

Since the option that says "Invite" you can pass the application of trick your friends on Facebook and join them to play catch.
Attention, Facebook has a limitation of up to 15 invitations a day to prevent spam. So if you want to invite more than 15 friends, you have to do on different days.

What if I have Facebook?

Very soon we will make not only Facebook can play, but it can also play from other networks, and even without being registered to any social network.

Do not know how to play the trick!, How I can learn?

From Trucacho help section you can access the regulations of the Truco. We recommend you practice with someone who knows the best way to learn is to play and play!

Future Improvements

Among the improvements that we think ahead are the following:

• Trick add rules for Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Venezuela and Spain.
• add the option of playing with flower
• play to 30 points
• language internationalization
• mode "VS computer" (and is developed, we will release it in days)

We also plan to organize tournaments, citing the girl to play together for a day and time.

Over 5 am, and I walked to a 6!

Launch 3,2,1 ...

To finish. We invite all to play the trick, installed the application and barter, hope you have fun. We remind you that we are always open to suggestions, proposals, criticisms and opinions.

Many thanks to everyone and is worth 4 LOVE!

Link to application: http://apps.new.facebook.com/trucacho
(Required to be logged into Facebook)