My appointment to the IGDA Board of Directors was just announced. I was appointed along with Rodney Gibbs and Erin Hoffman, and we will all serve for a 2 year term through September, 2011.

I can’t speak for Rodney or Erin, but I know that I am very excited to join the board, and look forward to making a positive impact through the IGDA. It’s been a rough year all around, and I know that a lot of people are still very invested in the org, and I’m hoping that we can help get things going in the right direction again.

The IGDA has and does do a lot for game developers already, and my goal is to make that more clear to the membership, while striving to help the org do even more.

The 360iDev conference starts Sunday here in Denver and Brian will be speaking there 8:30 Tuesday morning on the topic “User Input in a multi-touch, accelerometer, location aware world.” It will focus on a lot of the challenges and opportunities that developers need to think about when developing games and apps for today’s mobile devices. If you’re going to be in town then be sure to come by.

I’ve just returned from FITC Mobile, where I gave the presentation Secrets of an iPhone Developer. The slides for this are available here.

Overall the show was a lot of fun, and the quality of people attending was extremely high. The coverage of next gen platforms was also very good, and I learned a lot about Android and webOS development too. We’re currently looking into doing some webOS game development for the Palm Pre and Pixi, so you’ll likely see more about that coming from us soon.

This weekend Brian will be in Toronto to speak at the FITC mobile conference. His session is entitled Secrets of an iPhone Developer and it should cover a lot of tips and tricks useful to anyone developing iPhone games.

If you’re going to be in Toronto for this, or any other reason get in touch so we can meet up.

A few months back I had the opportunity to help out with a project for the Metro Denver WIRED initiative which was putting together a video showing how great IT careers can be. That video has just been posted, and you can see Brian’s contribution around the 5:30 mark. (No, the credits on it aren’t wrong, at the time I was working for my previous employer).

Let’s hope that this helps show some people that IT and technology careers are interesting, and not as boring or dull as others might think.

Welcome to Riptide Games. We’re still getting everything setup around here. Check back soon for more details on our first projects.