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XNA with BulletSharp Physics Engine

Did a quick clip to show the progress of my current engine as I have started to put a third party physics engine in. For years I have struggles and struggled with writing my own, with some success, but to be honest, I never could quite get it right. So...

Posted to RandomChaos by Charles Humphrey on Sat, May 12 2012

Filed under: Physics, Shadow Maps, XNA 4.0, BulletSharp

WPUG presents WPBarCamp

As a nod to our compadre’s over at the Windows Phone User group we got this stunning announcement This month, WPUG will be dropping its standard format and will instead be hosting a full day, bar camp style, event for experienced Windows Phone developers...

Posted to Dark Genesis by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin on Fri, May 11 2012

Filed under: wp7dev, Windows Phone 7 Development, Events

SunBurn Vs Unity–The face off!

One of the many reasons I don’t seem to get anything done these days is because I’m soo damn busy, if it’s not family it’s work, if it’s not work it’s usually because I’m writing samples or articles for someone else. One day I will take time...

Posted to Dark Genesis by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin on Tue, May 8 2012

Simple Active Tiles using XNA on WP7

So another quick post I want to do is on using active tiles in XNA, or rather how you instantiate them in you WP7 application using XNA, like in the last post we have to have the assets in the project rather than the content project. So, simply enough...

Posted to RandomChaos by Charles Humphrey on Fri, May 4 2012

Ringtones on WP7 using XNA

So, I did a sample for a friend a while back on how to add ringtones to a WP7 title that has been written in XNA. As we all know if you are writing it in Silverlight, there are plenty of samples out there, but I never spotted one for XNA. So I wrote this...

Posted to RandomChaos by Charles Humphrey on Fri, Apr 27 2012

Filed under: WP7

SunBurn Past, Present and Future?

*Note everything mentioned here is based on strong rumour and talks around the SunBurn community, no commitments have been made by the SunBurn team and no confirmations have been made at present – but they are hinted at strongly from good sources I’ve...

Posted to Dark Genesis by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin on Mon, Apr 23 2012

Filed under: XNA, Ramblings, SunBurn

A tale of things to come

While I have a minutes breather between projects (flipped was released, Vequencer is prepping for Beta and my other projects are just waiting) I thought I’d share with you (my avid reader base, whomever you maybe) my upcoming plans. Basically I’m going...

Posted to Dark Genesis by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin on Fri, Mar 23 2012

The future of XNA, the underwritten truths

While right now I should be working hard on releasing our Alphalabs.cc project Vequencer I’ve decided to take some time out and write out a summary of the blogosphere’s thoughts on the future of XNA. These are the best that are out there,...

Posted to Dark Genesis by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin on Sun, Mar 18 2012

Filed under: XNA, Ramblings, SunBurn

XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example, A Beginners Guide, Visual Basic Edition By Kurt Jaegers

I’ve known Kurt for some time now since XNA got off the ground so many years ago, Kurt run the site XNAResources.com which has been a great inspiration to all of us who have been blogging and educating in this area. His Tile Engine tutorial has...

Posted to Dark Genesis by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin on Fri, Feb 24 2012

Filed under: XNA, Book Review

Android NDK Beginner’s Guide

First thing that got me about this book was the comprehensive installation instructions, covering the installation of the JDK (Java Development Kit), Android SDK (Software Development Kit), Android NDK (Native Development Kit) and the IDE (Eclipse...

Posted to RandomChaos by Charles Humphrey on Tue, Feb 21 2012

Development Book Review

I have recently come across a number of books that are published by Packt Publishing , a couple related to XNA and one for the Android platform. All three perked my interest, the later as I have done a small amount of Android development for work in Java...

Posted to RandomChaos by Charles Humphrey on Mon, Feb 20 2012

AdRotator release for XNA

For once I'm going with a simple yet boring title for this blog post (since I'm known for naming things in a weird and wacky way ) simply because the content will speak for itself A Note – This control is designed for XNA on Windows Phone and...

Posted to Dark Genesis by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin on Mon, Feb 20 2012

Filed under: XNA, Tutorial, Sample

Would you like Ads with that!–Intro to AdRotator for WP7

One of those things we always strive for when we write games and apps for a platform is the hope of some recognition for our efforts or failing that a huge pile of cash to admire from our yacht parked in some temperate climate The subject of how...

Posted to Dark Genesis by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin on Mon, Feb 13 2012

Filed under: Tutorial, SilverXNA

SSAO & Water as a Post Process: My worst video ever?

http://www.youtube.com/v/x4ZBGwhpvJg http://www.youtube.com/v/x4ZBGwhpvJg Possibly my worst video :S SSAO may not be right, water not finished and bad model port. But, it's where I am with these shaders. Would like to thank Ed for the model port so...

Posted to RandomChaos by Charles Humphrey on Sat, Feb 11 2012

Filed under: Water, Post Processing, XNA 4.0, SSAO

A Quick Note On Binary Serialization

So was playing about with Binary serialization, and think I have a nice base class you might want to use if you ever want serialize your classes. This is the base class using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text;...

Posted to RandomChaos by Charles Humphrey on Thu, Jan 26 2012

Filed under: Serialization, C#

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