January 2008 - Posts

• New Article At Gamasutra's XNA Portal

  Xbox/Windows sound guru Brian Schmidt discusses the new cross-platform audio library for Windows and Xbox 360, XAudio2, with much insight into the new audio API.
  

  Posted Jan 31 2008, 10:43 AM by leaf with no comments

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• I called you but you weren't there

  Our hosting site had some power troubles yesterday, so you might not have been able to connect. We're sorry about that, hopefully it's sorted now.

  <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/flrINaqHNGc">http://www.youtube.com/v/flrINaqHNGc</a></p>
  

  Posted Jan 31 2008, 10:03 AM by leaf with no comments

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• XNA BUG Goes Live

  The XNA Belgium User Group, has news of a competition (that's how user groups start, don't you know). There's not much there yet but I expect they'll be more to come. Love the name, XNA BUG.

  This news come courtesy of Nemo Krad's post in the forums, he's so on the ball that lad.

  Posted Jan 17 2008, 10:20 PM by leaf with 1 comment(s)

  Filed under: competition, xna-bug

• Texture Atlas Sample Updated for XNA 2.0

  I updated the Texture Atlas pipeline for XNA 2.0. No new features, it just loads the output of Nvidia's Texture Atlas tool into XNA, useful for sprite sheets and packing multiple textures into one.

  Posted Jan 17 2008, 01:06 PM by leaf with no comments

  Filed under: samples, pipeline

• Show Off Your Games

  Just announced on the XNA Team Blog. Microsoft are looking for games to showcase, get your game in the spotlight and get in on an upcoming closed beta (then you too can hang around #xna trying to look cool). Check out the post for more details.

  Posted Jan 08 2008, 10:53 AM by leaf with no comments

• Five ways to get into the game industry

  I'm sometimes asked about getting employment in the games industry and my usual reply is that you should make things, meet people and read lots. Now Chris Hecker and Jonathon Blow have come up with a list of five things to do to get into the games industry, that reflects my own thoughts. Read Chris' post for the list (note, it's the 5 point list not the first 10 point list he quotes).

  The list is quite simple but as Jonathon mentions about losing weight (eat healthy, exercise regularly), it may be simple but putting it into practice requires some effort. On the bright side, if you're reading this post you're already on the way.

  Posted Jan 03 2008, 09:07 AM by leaf with 3 comment(s)