Liquid wizardy and gaming at £5 app event

Reporting back after the most wonderful of events last night.

We decided to sponsor local event: £5 apps for the Christmas festive edition (video). The event is loosely based around the promotion and furthering of ideas formed in peoples’ bedrooms. It exists to help lead them down the wonderfully-mysterious path of research, collaborative feedback, company formation, monetisation and future growth. The event aims to inform and inspire those that attend by showcasing a selection of informal presentations and demos, most of which are given by Brighton’s local talent.

The mid-December event was based around the theme of “gaming” with Aleks Krotoski (video) speaking about her Spaceship, Ben Rubinstein (video) of CogApp with eye-pong, Emily (video) and her sumo-robot friends, Seb (video) and his magical Flash particles and augmented reality system and of course the lastminute.com labs team (video) entertaining the crowd with mobile accelerometer pong and multiplayer lightsaber bluetooth duels on N95 devices.

To feed and water the masses, ribot provided festive treats in the form of mince pies and homemade (by @ribotminimus and @markirby) super-tasty mulled wine (with extra special ingredients, to give the audience that extra kick).

Wishing you all a happy festive period,

Team ribot