Recently I’ve been attending the Hackathons hosted by Microsoft Austria. It’s a really cool office with all the things you need as a developer. I worked with my colleague Reinhard Hafenscher on Wandermap, Runmap and Bikemap for Windows Phone 7 + 8. The first two apps are already released in the Windows store.

Runmap

With the free Runmap app you can access over 80.000 running routes worldwide instantly. Automatic listing of all routes near your current location, interactive elevation profile, synchronization of your personal route collection and much more. For more information open the download link.

Wandermap

Didn’t you always want to visit the lovely Austrian alps? Then this app is perfect for you. Find over 28.000 hiking routes world wide. This free app has the same awesome features as the Runmap WP app.

Since we are the winners of the European Botball Robotics competition, we took part at the Global Conference on Educational Robotics. This was our first year taking part at Botball.

The conference was in Honolulu, Hawaii.

After 5 exciting and interesting days we won the following awards:

• Outstanding On-Site presentation (100%)
• Outstanding Programming
• Spirit award
• Finalist

Next year I definitely want to take part in this awesome conference and competition as well. I talked with many smart and interesting students and mentors there 

More information can be found on our blog: 

http://puzzles-gcer.blogspot.co.at (German)

iTanky is a fun and addictive 2 dimensional tank game for iOS. You can either play the campaign or fight against your friends via Wifi or Bluetooth. I developed this app together with Richard, a your graphic designer from Dresden, Germany. I also developed a web based map editor that works on all modern browsers. This app was available on the App Store for free.

A far more detailed project description can be found here (only german): iTanky Projektbeschreibung

The U19 Freestyle Computing competition is organised by the Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.

• 2011 I took part with my Bikemap iPhone app and got one of the top 15 places.
• 2012 I sent in my iPhone game iTanky and landed in the top 15 places again. Both years there have been over 600 participants.