Dan Milward is an entrepreneur based in Wellington. His company Instinct contributes to a number of non-profit and Open Source projects, most notably the world famous WordPress e-Commerce Plugin and Gamefroot a WordPress powered social network for people to create online and mobile games.
Instinct have been contributing to the greater WordPress community for more than 9 years. Other examples of their work include, a Campaign Monitor Plugin, Facebook Connect Plugin, a WordPress Wiki Plugin, TikiPress for selling Tickets online, a reservations Plugin, a Group Deals Plugin (like groupon), and they have funded numerous theme development competitions to help foster the WordPress eco system. Dan says
“My presentation will take people through the back end of the the Gamefroot website. I will show people how we are using the WordPress database to run an entire gaming website. My presentation will focus on the following points;”
1) game creation
2) game play
3) corresponding custom post types
4) the social side of gaming
5) the future of browser based gaming in WP
Dan’s aim is to show people to what extreme WordPress can be pushed. Gamefroot is being launched on April 24th in Wellington just after this event so we all get a preview. Dan is also a co-organiser for WordCamps in NZ and he represents his business and NZ at many wordcamps each year around the world.
Websites: Gamefroot , Getshopped Twitter: @DanMilward