Alex Peake was interviewed by Hermione Way for TheNextWeb's Startups of AngelHack 2011 about Code Hero and the launch of D2020, a hack the planetathon to inspire developers to create 2020 games to change the world by 2020. D2020 was created and launched by parallel teams at Angelhack and Random Hacks of Kindness SF Hackathon, where it won honors and an XBox Kinect which will serve as a gestural interface testbed for the Code Hero team's UX experiments.
Complimenting our People’s Choice Award, we’re pleased to announce the newly formed Innovation Award, bestowed upon SF Beta startups that grace our event with game-changing, revolutionary, category-creating concepts.
Code Hero is edutainment (remember that?) at its finest — a game that teaches you how to make games with a code gun that copies, edits and shoots Javascript in Unity3D. I’m pretty sure I met Alex Peake, the company’s founder, at a flash mob in the Mission district several years ago, proving that San Francisco really is the smallest town in the world.
Our booth was packed with people getting their hands on Code Hero for the first time:
Audiences were captivated by Code Hero's approach towards learning programming in 3D as many non-programmers saw for the first time a way they could break into coding and actually enjoy learning Javascript and Unityscript.
Experienced programmers got a laugh from seeing how the classic FizzBuzz job interview question is transformed into a horde of 100 angry FizzBots in Code Hero's FizzBoss challenge to combine Javascript algorithms and Unity game code.
Primer's Code Hero has been selected as one of the top inventions of 2011 to be featured at World Futurist BetaLaunch in Vancouver July 8th and 9th!
UPDATE JULY 8 2011: We presented Code Hero at the BetaLaunch Disruptathon and here's video showing us at the event and some of our favorite future tech groups presenting including Seasteading and TechShop. Alex Peake and Randal Koene of CarbonCopies and Halcyon appear in white lab coats demoing Code Hero at 1:00:
Some attendees vlogged their favorite inventions at BetaLaunch and they picked Code Hero, TechShop and Seasteading as three of their favorites:
15 launches 1,000 conference attendees 50,000+ online visitors July 8-9, 2011 Wall Centre in Vancouver, Canada
On July 8-9, 2011, a small group of brilliant entrepreneurs will be given a chance to change the world. Their ideas could give birth to the next Internet, Facebook or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
This event creates the perfect recipe for success. Bring together over 1,000 investors, scientists, engineers, and early adopters and offer them the opportunity to see and touch the greatest inventions of the year.
Unlike other events, the field goes beyond software and internet apps. Some of the most exciting and innovative ideas are coming out of DIY and Maker Faires, with others combining cutting-edge software with the latest in hardware.
The atmosphere will be electric.
Touchscreen devices for voting, online fundraising opportunities, and an evening cocktail hour open to conference attendees and the local Vancouver tech scene.
Code Hero was shown at Maker Faire 2011 and it won an Editor's Choice Blue Ribbon Award from Mark Frauenfelder of MAKE and BoingBoing.net. So much for stealth mode.
Maker Faire 2011 Kids' Choice Award
Kids at the event when asked by an emcee in a group what their favorite thing at Maker Faire was shouted "Code Hero, the game where you learn how to make your own games!" to the cheers of the other kids. Thousands of kids played and many had to be dragged away when their group was moved to the next area and demanded that their school teachers follow up with us to bring Code Hero to their schools.
Code Hero won the Innovation Award at the 
