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New Content on the XNA Creators Site

Friday, January 11 2008 - game-development, xna-2-0, game-studio

Microsoft has released a new batch of Updated and New Content on the Creators Site, we have also been informed that there will be more released each Thursday for the next 3 weeks. If you have any questions or suggestions on Content you can post in the Content Forums on the Creators Site.

Today we have released four new and twelve updated pieces of educational content, all designed to support XNA Game Studio 2.0.  Each Thursday for the next three weeks, we will release more updated content until our entire catalog has been converted, as well as continuing to deliver new content.

New Content Included

• Collision Series 5: Heightmap Collision with Normals
• Sprite Sheet Sample
• WinForms Series 1: Graphics Device
• WinForms Series 2: Content Loading

Updated Content

• Billboard Sample
• Distortion Sample
• Particle Sample
• Tiled Sprites Sample
• Shader Series: Introduction
• Shader Series 1: Vertex Lighting Sample
• Shader Series 2: Textures and Colors Sample
• Shader Series 3: Per-Pixel Lighting Sample
• Shader Series 4: Materials and Multiple Light Sources Sample
• Shader Series: Fixed-Function to Programmable Pipeline
• Shader Series: Coordinate Systems

Updated Tutorials

• Authoring Particle Systems Using XML and the Content Pipeline

Updated Mini Games

• Minjie
• Pickture

With this release all of the Existing Tutorials and Articles have been converted. There are still a few Samples, Mini Games, Utilities, and Starter Kits to be converted and released.

The next content release is planned for January 17th, 2008.