wotudo : Zune

Xblig XNA day

paulfo — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:53:05 GMT

I had a great day in Birmingham today attending the UK Xblig XNA day. The day was full of interesting stuff from texturing meshes correctly, to procedural generation of game worlds and AI strategies. Over 70 people attended with various levels of XNA...(read more)

Zune’s Nov. launch – the reality is Xbox 360++

paulfo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:06:24 GMT

This quote from WinSuperSite explains the situation nicely: The misreporting of Zune's "global launch" When the Financial Times reported this week that Microsoft was getting set to launch Zune around the world, a lot of people got excited...(read more)

Community Games on Xbox LIVE Beta

paulfo — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:45:26 GMT

David 'LetsKillDave' Weller announces on the XNA Team Blog the availability of Community Games on Xbox LIVE!! Following on from GDC 2008 you now have the opportunity to try it out.

Read more at the XNA Team Blog. Or jump direct here.

XNA 3.0 CTP - Zune games!

paulfo — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:26:30 GMT

Yes! The XNA Games Studio 3.0 CTP is available and it enables game development for the Zune platform. Canadian colleague Jean-Luc David ported this game pretty easily.

Jean-Luc's learning's in doing are:

· Project needed to be converted from XNA 1.0 to 2.0 (using the Migration tool)

· Copied in PreferredBuffer attributes from the Alien Takeover game, Mitch Walker’s reference game was very useful in general

· All graphics were reduced by 40%

· Background same aspect ratio - 90 degree clockwise rotation

· Removed all keyboard related code (everything in the #if!XBOX blocks)

· Used keyboard conditional statements for input, but targeted GamePad (eg: gamePadState.DPad.Left == ButtonState.Pressed)

· Fire == Buttons.A

· Rotated text in DrawString using MathHelper.PiOver2

· Added more ships, game appears to run faster on the Zune than on Windows

· Needed to adjust math in the game to rotate game (forced me to brush up on Cartesian math) :)

An interesting development I shall enjoy exploring.