Category Archives: Storytelling

My mom won’t care about the Windows 8 Start button

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Adam Kinney

Disclaimer: I am an independent Windows 8 developer who used to work for Microsoft. My family uses Windows PCs and iOS devices. When working on HTML5 projects I sometimes use a Mac to develop. Its crazy, I know. There has been a … Continue reading →

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I’m doing the BUILD HIVE 2011 conference combo

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Adam Kinney

I’ve been looking forward to the BUILD conference since it was announced.  Seeing the Windows 8 demo, with its fancy new Metro evolved look and the fact that new development technologies are on the horizon, makes me feel giddy at the … Continue reading →

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Building a Windows Phone 7 game at the Kinect Code Camp

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Adam Kinney

This week I had the unique opportunity to take part in the Kinect Code Camp, a quiet event starting 24 hours before the public launch of the Kinect SDK. From the beginning there was a great vibe going on provided … Continue reading →

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Grid by Example – WP7 design

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Adam Kinney

I opened a PSD file today which contained a WP7 panorama design and this is what I saw: Metro, the design language for Windows Phone 7 is all about the grid.  At least that’s where you start; then you break … Continue reading →

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Throwing Stars – a new HTML5 game

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Adam Kinney

Throwing Stars is a new HTML5 game where the goal is to throw a star across the sky and collect all of the sparkling tokens before you run out of stars. Of course it’d be too easy if there were just tokens … Continue reading →

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See you at MIX11, and hopefully the Windows Phone 7 Boot Camp, too

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Adam Kinney

Less than a month to go for the big MIX11 conference and the buffet of sessions and events looks tasty and they haven’t even released the official sessions yet.  Presently you can peruse the site and find the Boot Camps, … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Class of 2010

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Adam Kinney

Since putting in my notice at Microsoft this year, I’ve been paying attention to others who have left the company as well. This is not a “canary in a coal mine” list; rather its just a reflection on the inevitable … Continue reading →

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I’ll be that guy – future directions and so on and so forth

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Adam Kinney

Today during a call with Mr. Ingebretsen discussing a project, we had plotted who would be the dev lead, who would be the design lead and who would be the dev/design/wireframe/glue lead.  I said “I’ll be that guy”, the “glue” … Continue reading →

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On the Herding Code show talking about Silverlight and HTML5 (+ artwork)

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Adam Kinney

Rick Barraza and I were guests on the Herding Code show talking about Silverlight and HTML 5. I decided to create a cover art for the episode, just to give it that extra love. Check out the show at herdingcode.com/?p=281 … Continue reading →

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Video Interview of Pixel Lab after the IE9 Beta Event

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Adam Kinney

Eight hours after the IE9 Beta Launch event, I took this video of Robby Ingebretsen and Kevin Moore from Pixel Lab. We discuss IE9, HTML5 and our experiences in building Agent 008 Ball. For more of this witty banter and … Continue reading →

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