Showing posts with label kickstarter of the month. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kickstarter of the month. Show all posts

Thursday, 5 September 2013

Kickstarter Of The Month: Nidus Gaming Centre Newcastle

So, after the success of NoFlo last month, for September we have a brand new kickstarter campaign to look at. This one is so close to home for me, I couldn't not get involved.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you:

Nidus Gaming Centre!

The concept around this is fantastic. Essentially, the brains behind this operation want to open a dedicated space for gaming in Newcastle Upon Tyne (where I'm from, incidentally). It is designed to be a safe, unisex space where people can go to play games, hang out with each other and generally be around other gamers.



There will be PCs and consoles, private gaming booths, areas for board games, plenty of tournaments and competitions all housed within a solid community of gamers.

What has attracted me most to this concept is not just that it's in Newcastle, but it's also something Newcastle desperately needs. There have been LAN arenas and gaming hubs in the past, but traditionally they are little more than people sitting with headphones on, playing World Of Warcraft, there's no community, no interaction. The aims of the three founders are to get a proper community going where people are coming not only to game, but to socialise and have fun.

This campaign runs until the 1st of October and they are asking for £44.500. At the time of writing they're at £1,067, so they need our help. I've backed this campaign, you all should too. You can pledge using the widget below the video:




Sunday, 11 August 2013

Kickstarter Of The Month: NoFlo Development Environment

Here at The Gadget Addicts, we love gadgets. Obvious isn't it? We also love the internet, we love building things but we hate coding. 

Coding is the bane of most geek's existence. Even those who are employed as developers in some form or other hate coding. It's time consuming, painful and if you're learning, it can be an utter pain in the arse. There's nothing worse than spending hours or even days on a piece of code, finding out that it doesn't work properly and hunting through thousands of lines of code only to see that you've missed off a solitary } that has caused the whole thing to break.

This month's Kickstarter of the month aims to throw the concept of coding out the window. I present to you;

NoFlo Development Environment

Developed by The Grid, NoFlo allows you to code Javascript in a lovely, flow based UI. Much in the same way Pega PRPC or Informatica PowerCenter allowed you to build complex UI programs or automatic database functions using flows, NoFlo takes the pain away from development.

Check out their video and have a look at what they are trying to achieve. It makes the developer in me oddly happy.



At the time of writing, NoFlo was just about 3/4s of the way to being funded with 35 days to go. Please back this campaign and help them meet their stretch goals. NoFlo has the potential to simplify the development process worldwide and allow even bedroom coders to create some fantastic apps in absolutely no time.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/noflo/noflo-development-environment?ref=category