I have had some fun today putting together a small simple XNA Game for the Windows Phone 7, at the moment it is at least playable but it needs a lot of work. I am planning on spending some more time on it over the next few days, Including adding some more animation to the game....
With the current project that I am starting to play around with I found that I needed to draw some bubbles on the screen. To aid in this I have been playing around with a very simple particle system for the game, but to get started I needed to get the art assets done for the project. The images and process...
Over the last couple of days I have helped a couple of people get the Windows Phone 7 Tools uninstalled and reinstalled. One thing that I did find is that you really need to make sure that the old version has been completely removed from the system. When removing manually, I know that in my case I did...
For a while now I have been running the RC of Visual Studio 2010 so that I could continue to play around with the Windows Phone 7 Tools. The good thing is that the tools have now been refreshed so that they are now supported on the RTM of Visual Studio 2010. Link: The Windows Phone Developer Blog, Phone...
For a while I have been using the game state and network state samples for the base for my games. Over the weekend I decided to spend some time with the XNA 4.0 system, but to start I had to convert the state samples to run under the new XNA 4.0 system. The conversion was an easy task, and it all came...
I have been doing a bit of a catch up over today and found the list of the Top 20 entrants in the Dream Build Play 2010 Challenge . The part that I really liked was that we have 4 entries from Australia listed in the top 20. Alien Jelly Creed Arena King Spray Mind Over Metal To find out more information...
I had a little bit of time this afternoon so I have started to build a little project to help with my sons education. As a result of this I have been playing around with some WPF and some Timer functions. With one of the applications I have put together as a test I have used the DispatchTimer class to...
While I have been up early this morning I thought that it was about time to publish the code for the XNA Touch Sample I put together a few days ago. The main reason for doing the sample is to help with a small game idea that I am working on, of which I might post about soon. Start by creating a new Windows...
I love watching what people can do with the tools that I use. Here is the latest show reel from Autodesk. This Autodesk Show Reel illustrates the company's leadership in 2D and 3D design technology by showcasing incredible customer work in the fields of architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing...
With the release of the Windows Phone Development Tools and XNA 4.0 CTP I thought it was about time that I installed the system and started to play with it. To start with I will go through the steps to install the CTP. 1. The first step is to make sure that your system has the right prerequisites to...
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