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Australian XNA Game Camp

Thursday, December 24 2009 - xna, ozgamecamp, imagine-cup, dream-build-play

Last week end I had the absolute pleasure of spending a couple of days with a large group made up of mainly University Students and a few others who all had the common goal of learning a little bit about XNA, the Imagine Cup and off course having some fun.

I just wanted to say thankyou to Microsoft (Andrew and Karo) for giving Luke and myself a chance to talk at the event and meet the group.

During the event we took the guys through several introductory and some intermediate topics relating to XNA, some of these included looking at Avatars, Collision Detection, Audio, Particles and Game State. The good thing is that by the end of the event we had some time for the students to demonstrate some of the projects that they had been working on over the weekend. In the end we where shown about 10 games, with each of these showing promise and even a couple of them where almost in a complete state.

As this was the first XNA Game Camp to be held in Australia, I think that it was organised really well and was received by all those who attended in a positive manner. I am hoping this will not be the last, and once the Imagine Cup for this year is complete we can start to organise the next.

Just to finish off, I would like to wish all the guys who are going to drop an entry into the Imagine Cup good luck and I hope you do well, but remember that there is also the Dream Build Play.