We just finished another fantastic week at OSCON 2014 – this was our fourth year attending and speaking at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, and we (as usual) had an absolutely amazing time. It's rapidly becoming one of our favourite conferences.

We presented twice at OSCON this year: a session version of our How Do I Game Design? workshop, and our three-hour Android-focused mobile design tutorial (along with Chris Neugebauer, as usual).

The slides for How Do I Game Design? are available now on Speaker Deck. Interesting and related links for attendees are:

• Squire, 2006. From Content to Context: Videogames as Designed Experience
• Schell, 2008. The Art of Game Design
• LeBlanc, Hunicke and Zubek, 2004: MDA: A Formal Approach to Game Design and Game Research
• Koster, 2004. A Theory of Fun for Game Design
• Game Definitions: gamedefinitions.com
• 8KindsOfFun – Marc LeBlanc: 8kindsoffun.com

The games we mentioned in the talk are:

• The Resistance
• The Resistance: Avalon
• Half-Life 2
• Portal 2
• Gone Home
• The Stanley Parable

The slides for our mobile design tutorial Unfortunately Design Tutorial Has Stopped ... and other ways to infuriate people with mobile apps are available now on Speaker Deck. Interesting and related links for attendees are:

• Google's Creative Vision for Android
• Google's Material Design
• Google's Company Philosophy
• Action Bar Icon Pack

Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions!

We also ran our Android UX and development tutorial ("Level Up Your Apps: Mobile UX Design and Development") for the third year at OSCON! We had a great time presenting alongside our friend Chris Neugebauer (who devised much of the content).

Some links/information for those of you who are interested:

• Final APK (suitable for installing) of the OSCON 2013 app we built
• GitHub repository for the code from the tutorial
• The tags, corresponding in order to the start and finished states for the application: talk_listing_start, talk_listing_end, schedule_start, schedule_end, day_list_start, day_list_end, navigation_start, navigation_end, data_end, tabs_end, theme_start, theme_end, navigation_refresh, talk_listing_update, themeing_finished
• You can switch between these tags by using git reset --hard followed by git checkout and the name of the tag you want. Note that you will lose changes.

Slides are available on Speaker Deck:

Slides for OSCON 2013 Tutorial

If you have any questions or comments, please get in touch!

At OSCON this year, @chrisjrn, @desplesda and I presented a 3-hour tutorial on "Android-Fu: Awesome Apps for Ice Cream Sandwich and Beyond". We had a great turn out, and it was a lot of fun to present at OSCON for the second year in a row (last year we presented the well received Android for people who hate phones, a similar topic in a similar style).

You can also find the code from the activity on GitHub, as well as the final binary (APK) for installation on your Android 4.0+ device.

We hope you enjoyed it! Please get in touch if you have any questions or feedback!