Looking to rent/sublease office Space in the Lower Lonsdale/Harbourside Drive area of North Vancouver

We are currently on the hunt for office space in the lower Lonsdale/Harbourside Drive area of North Vancouver. We are looking for decent, clean, bright office space (around 150 – 500 square feet). If you have some extra space you’d like to sublease or rent, please drop us a line. We are ideally looking for Nov 1.

Ethical Entertainment Selected to Particapate in New Media BC/NRC – DIGITAL SPRINGBOARD Mentorship Program!

I am pleased to announce that we have been selected as one of the companies to take part in the New Media BC/NRC – DIGITAL SPRINGBOARD Mentorship Program. Just like to say thank you to Christine Lim-Labossiere , New Media BC and the NRC for selecting us to participate in the program.

We have been matched with veteran expert Mike Rowlands, President of Octopus Strategies Inc who will act as our mentor over the next 4 months and help us work towards achieving our specific business goals.

Mike is an accomplished business strategist, entrepreneur, and leader engaged by organizations around the world to craft distinctive strategies and to deliver award-winning marketing.

Mike also speaks frequently to business organizations, and has lectured for MBA candidates at UBC’s Sauder School of Business. He has also been recognized by the BC Technology Industries Association as a ‘Tech Expert;’ by the Vancouver Board of Trade as a nominee for ‘Mentor of the Year;’ and by his peers as a nominee for Business In Vancouver magazine’s ‘40 Under 40.’ Mike is a Past-President of the BC Epilepsy Society, and is currently a Director of the BC Lower Mainland Chapter of the Canadian Association of Management Consultants, and a Member of the Royal Roads Foundation’s Vancouver Fundraising Committee.

We are really looking forward to sitting down with Mike and discussing how we take Ethical Entertainment to the next level!

Christmas came early! Unity iPhone 1.5 ships!

Can’t even begin to describe how excited I am that Unity 1.5 is hot off the press. We’ve been waiting all summer for this and now it’s here. Lot’s of improvements and new additions including:

Significant Performance Boosts
* Up to 3x faster than 1.0.3.
* Performance critical paths rewritten to take advantage of VFP coprocessor, animation skinning is up to 4x faster.
* Automatic batching of meshes to reduce draw calls.

Built-in Anti-piracy Protection
* Identify if Apple DRM was removed from the application bundle and modify application behaviour accordingly.

More Power
* Full support for native Objective C and C++ code opens full access to the iPhone 3.x APIs and custom plugins.
* Access to video-playback, on screen keyboard support, and GPS/location services.
* Support for 8-texture shading on iPhone 3GS with automatic fallbacks for iPhone 3G.

Better Docs
* Detailed instructions on iphone-specific optimizations.
* New 150 page tutorial to get you up to speed with iPhone game making.

We are particularly excited about the Objective-c and C++ bridge as we’ll now be able to tap the entire raw SDK and team it up with the full power of Unity. The only limit is our own imagination now!

For all the details check out http://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/iphone-1.5

Unity 3D iPhone 1.1 coming next week!

Straight from Tom Higgins himself! I’m very excited about this release as it will allow for bridging Unity with the rest of the iPhone SDK. We do both Unity iPhone and raw SDK iPhone dev a Ethical Entertainment, so this gives us a lot of new options and power that has been off limits up until now.

Check it out one twitter at http://twitter.com/higgyb.

Have a new iPhone / iTouch? Get a Case!

I just bought a new iPhone 3GS a few weeks ago, and I didn’t grab a case for it right away because to be honest, none of the cases in the store really blew my hair back.

Well after dropping my new baby about 3 times on the concrete and getting getting off easy with only a little scratch I quickly re-evaluated my priorities. I thought it might really be a good idea to protect my $700+ investment before it’s too late.

I also have an iPod Touch at home for the kids, and if you’re a parent, you’ll want to protect this too. Surprisingly it’s kind of hard to find cool cases for kids, so maybe some budding designers out there will remedy this situation. I kinda thought this Julius case was not bad though.

For my iPhone I ended up going with a Roots leather case with a belt clip, which has worked out pretty good so for and cost about $20. Even if all you do is get one of the jelly cases, this is better than nothing and offers some level of protection from being dropped.

On the extreme end of things I found these online, and they might be worth a look.

OtterBox for iPod Touch

and

OtterBox for iPhone

So if you don’t have a case yet, get one asap, before it’s too late.