That sounds pretty awesome.

On Wednesday, 5 September 2012 at 3:19 PM, Ben Taylor wrote:

> I could talk about the backend for a real-world GPS game called Gotcha. We've 
> run competitions in Australia and South Africa. The South African game has 
> over 40,000 players and during peak times sees 1.5K players hitting the 
> server every few seconds. It runs Rails 3.2 on Heroku with Postgres, Memcache 
> and a few other thingies. There's some fun things we've needed to do with 
> optimisation and automatic cheat detection.
> 
> There's a promotional website here: http://www.snepo.com/gotcha.html
> 
> and the current game live in south africa can be seen here 
> http://www.gotcha.highveld.co.za/Home/LiveGame 
> 
>  - Ben
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, 5 September 2012 at 2:47 PM, Mikel Lindsaar wrote:
> 
> > So good news Steve (stevelikesyou fame from LookAhead) will be sponsoring 
> > the RoRo Sydney meetup next Tuesday!  Thanks Steve! :)
> > 
> > Still looking for some more speakers, don't be shy now, some of you must 
> > have been doing something interesting recently :)
> > 
> > Mikel
> > 
> > 
> > On 04/09/2012, at 11:36 AM, Mikel Lindsaar <[email protected] 
> > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > > Hi there all,
> > > 
> > > It's that time of the month again, Sydney will have their most awesomest 
> > > monthly meetup next week at the now infamous Trinity Bar.
> > > 
> > > If you haven't been for a while, next week is the perfect opportunity to 
> > > spread your wings a little and come along!  Why is it perfect?  Why next 
> > > week?  Why not?  Why are you asking me why?  It's in a pub full of like 
> > > minded individuals, what is not perfect about that?
> > > 
> > > Also, please get in contact with me via email, the list, twitter or 
> > > carrier pigeon to register your interest to speak.  We have places for 2 
> > > full talks and 2 lightning talks.  Last month was a good size and length 
> > > I think and I'd like to keep the talks sharp and sweet :)
> > > 
> > > Looking forward to seeing you all there!
> > > 
> > > Mikel
> > > 
> > 
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