App Dev Clinic - building casual games with Scirra Construct 2

Thinking that writing an app for Windows 8 is hard? Overwhelmed with lots to learn? Not relishing long nights spent in Visual Studio?

Get your first Windows 8 application under your belt an easier way! Build a casual game with HTML5 and JavaScript using Scirra Construct 2, a free, event based, game development IDE supporting Windows 8 and a few lesser known mobile platforms :) Jim O'Neil, Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, will lead this interactive session that will show you how to build a fun game and take it all the way to the Windows Store. With that experience you'll be well prepared for that magnum opus, "I'm ready to retire" application you have banging around in your head! Oh yeah, and with the current Keep the Cash (http://aka.ms/keepthecash) promotion, you'll be $100 richer for every app you do publish!

Bring your laptop with Windows 8 (preferably) but Windows 7 will work for most of this as well. Download the free version of Scirra Construct 2 ( http://www.scirra.com/construct2/free-edition ), and you'll be all set!