Next meeting
Online with Google+ hangout
(tba)

A helping hand for bedroom coders throughout the land.

Dark Genesis

Blogs

Dark Genesis

Syndication

News

New beginnings. First bringing the old into the sun, dusted off and made shiny, starting with the DigiPen Institute coding 4 fun 2D tutorial series

Archives

Sort by: Most Recent | Most Viewed | Most Commented

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...

Published Fri, May 11 2012 9:56 AM by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin

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...

Published Tue, May 8 2012 2:57 PM by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin
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...

Published Mon, Apr 23 2012 11:51 AM by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin

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...

Published Fri, Mar 23 2012 11:29 AM by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin
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,...

Published Sun, Mar 18 2012 8:27 AM by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin

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...

Published Fri, Feb 24 2012 10:55 AM by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin

Filed under: XNA, Book Review
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...

Published Mon, Feb 20 2012 5:13 PM by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin

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...

Published Mon, Feb 13 2012 3:28 PM by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin

Filed under: Tutorial, SilverXNA
The Starter2D and Starter3D tutorials now on the Marketplace

I finally managed to get my Marketplace account sorted for my own indie game studio ZenithMoon and while prepping to release my first proper app/game I thought it would be good to publish my 2D and 3D tutorial projects on the marketplace for FREE at the...

Published Fri, Jan 20 2012 3:23 PM by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin

Filed under: XNA, XNA 2D from the ground up, Tutorial, wp7dev, Windows Phone 7 Development, Silverlight, SilverXNA
A world of updates, welcome Mango

Well the world woke up again in the Windows Phone world on the 28th September with the timely release of the latest iteration of the Windows Phone family, I'm obviously talking about Mango. Updating to Mango couldn’t be simpler, just plug your...

Published Thu, Sep 29 2011 11:51 AM by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin

Filed under: Ramblings, wp7dev
Windows 8 in a week on reflection

So pretty much from Day 1 of the Developer preview of Windows 8 being released i set myself the same challenge I always do and see if I can actually work in the new world, thankfully this was made much easier this time round with Windows 7’s way...

Published Thu, Sep 29 2011 10:11 AM by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin

Filed under: Ramblings
XNA to SilverXNA-part 7 Breaking the mould

So far with SilverXNA we have been dealing will a full page approach to rendering our Silverlight page in XNA, it’s quick and simple but there is another way. The Silverlight renderer (UIElementRenderer) is specifically targeted at UI controls it...

Published Fri, Sep 23 2011 5:45 PM by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin

Filed under: XNA, Tutorial, wp7dev, Windows Phone 7 Development, Silverlight, SilverXNA
XNA to SilverXNA-part 6 Adding a bit of Flash

Now one thing that wasn’t in the original game (unless you count the player / enemy animations which to face it are part of the gam anyway) was any kind of animation to the UI experience, namely in this case the Overlay’s we just put back...

Published Thu, Sep 22 2011 8:03 PM by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin

Filed under: XNA, Tutorial, wp7dev, Windows Phone 7 Development, Silverlight, MVVM, Mango, SilverXNA
XNA to SilverXNA-part 5 Control, Control, we must have control

Must admit I had a bit of a Star Wars relapse while thinking about what to call this article, hay I'm only human, supposedly. So at this point in the SilverXNA series we now have our XNA game running with Silverlight side by side and all’s well...

Published Wed, Sep 7 2011 7:04 PM by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin

Filed under: XNA, Tutorial, wp7dev, Windows Phone 7 Development, Silverlight, MVVM, Mango, SilverXNA
XNA to SilverXNA-part 4 Degrees of Separation

In yet another area that will be completely foreign to XNA devs (unless you' have delved into Silverlight or Web programming) is the concept that in reality you should never have code updating the screen directly. In XNA this is unavoidable simply...

Published Thu, Aug 25 2011 4:12 PM by Simon Jackson XNAUK Admin

Filed under: XNA, Tutorial, wp7dev, Windows Phone 7 Development, Sample, Silverlight, MVVM, Mango, SilverXNA

1 2 3 4 5 Next > ... Last »

Powered by Community Server (Non-Commercial Edition), by Telligent Systems

biz:andrewbelon.com

Dark Genesis

Blogs

Syndication

Recent Posts

Tags

News

Archives

WPUG presents WPBarCamp

SunBurn Vs Unity–The face off!

SunBurn Past, Present and Future?

A tale of things to come

The future of XNA, the underwritten truths

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

AdRotator release for XNA

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

The Starter2D and Starter3D tutorials now on the Marketplace

A world of updates, welcome Mango

Windows 8 in a week on reflection

XNA to SilverXNA-part 7 Breaking the mould

XNA to SilverXNA-part 6 Adding a bit of Flash

XNA to SilverXNA-part 5 Control, Control, we must have control

XNA to SilverXNA-part 4 Degrees of Separation