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New Bloggers!!

Yes, that's right, we have two new XNA blogs here at the XNA-UK UG and I urge you to check them out!! Granny's Best Brought to you by the creator of Britonia, John has just put up an introdutory post, and I am expecting some awesome stuff in the...

Published Mon, Dec 14 2009 3:00 PM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: articles
Free XNA Creators Club Membership

If you're still thinking of coming along to our Birmingham event in March but haven't made your mind up, then you might be interested to know that Microsoft have very kindly offered to give 4 months free XNA Creators Club membership to every attendee...

Published Tue, Mar 3 2009 9:35 PM by leaf

Filed under: events
XNA Bar Camp, Birmingham, March 21st 2009

The XNA UK User group cordially invites you to a day of XNA show and tell. Join us to share your latest XNA game or technique insight, to learn from others, and have a thoroughly good time with XNA. If you want to come along, and we hope you do, please...

Published Sat, Feb 21 2009 5:05 PM by leaf

Filed under: events
Show & Tell Special: Plain Sight, Sumo Squash, Big Screen Multi Player Fun

We're having another show & tell session, since the last one was so much fun. This time with 2 special guests, the Beatnik folks will be showing off their game Plain Sight and our own Herriman winners will be showing their lovely looking, DBP...

Published Sat, Oct 4 2008 10:46 AM by leaf

Filed under: events
Earn Cash with XNA!

Apologies for the cheesy headline, but this news was just calling out for it. Microsoft have announced Xbox Live Community Games, you make them, peers review them and delighted customers pay you (and Microsoft) for them. " As a Premium member in...

Published Tue, Jul 22 2008 9:19 PM by leaf
Show & Tell Report

We had a Show & Tell last week , the turnout wasn't as good as we hoped (where were you all?) but everyone who came along had something to show and it meant more chocolate brownies for us. We had a little technical trouble with the high tech lighting...

Published Wed, May 21 2008 12:36 PM by leaf

Filed under: events
Show & Tell at Microsoft's Cardinal Place, Victoria, London - Friday May 16th 2008

Just to let you know, we've got a concrete date for the next user group meeting. See this forum thread for details and make sure to reply if you're interested in coming along.

Published Sun, Apr 20 2008 9:46 PM by leaf

Filed under: events
More Fitba

In my previous post about Fitba , Fritz, of Triple B Games , commented about the influence of the Amiga games SWOS and Kick Off 2 on their game. Considering that Kick Off 2 was amongst my favourite Amiga games (that game gave me blisters) I had to give...

Published Sat, Mar 1 2008 7:37 PM by leaf
Fitba Game and Updated FBX Exporter for Blender

Triple B Games have announced a demo of their distinctly Scottish take on football, Fitba "Nae arms, nae legs, nae problem". It looks great but in all their nifty marketing, I notice they don't mention the XBLA version of Sensible Soccer...

Published Fri, Feb 29 2008 4:27 PM by leaf

Filed under: blender
Gamsutra Article on the Community Games Process

Gamasutra have an article , from Microsoft I guess, about what the process of creating and reviewing XNA community games will be. It's an interesting read, if only because it makes it clear that the peer review process is only about content, not quality...

Published Fri, Feb 22 2008 11:17 AM by leaf

Filed under: CommunityGames
XNA 3.0 To Support Zune Devices

Just in case there is anyone who reads this who hasn't already read all about this over at the Creators Club site. The next version of XNA Game Studio will include support for Zune devices, including creating multi-player games that work over wireless...

Published Thu, Feb 21 2008 9:49 AM by leaf
Xbox LIVE Community Games

One of the announcements from the GDC today is news of Xbox LIVE Community Games . Creators Club subscribers will be able to submit their games to be published on Xbox LIVE for anyone with an Xbox to play, after a period of peer review. I imagine this...

Published Wed, Feb 20 2008 9:20 PM by leaf

Filed under: gdc, CommunityGames, Xbox
EA Uses XNA For Rapid Prototyping

Just noticed this mention of EA using XNA (amongst other things) to quickly test out game ideas.

Published Tue, Feb 19 2008 3:28 PM by leaf

Filed under: EA, prototype
Dreamspark

News is coming from GDC'08 of Microsoft Dreamspark, a selection of software that will be made free for students. Could be very useful for our student members.

Published Tue, Feb 19 2008 3:04 PM by leaf

Filed under: gdc, dreamspark
How Rare Recruits Graduates, or Insider Tips on Blagging a Job at Rare

Our chum, Nick Burton has an interesting article up at Gamasutra talking about why and how Rare goes about recruiting graduates. Nick was one of the people at Rare who worked on the early Rare XNA examples and also helped us judge last year's user...

Published Wed, Feb 6 2008 6:09 PM by leaf

Filed under: rare, gamasutra, edu

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New Bloggers!!

Free XNA Creators Club Membership

XNA Bar Camp, Birmingham, March 21st 2009

Show & Tell Special: Plain Sight, Sumo Squash, Big Screen Multi Player Fun

Earn Cash with XNA!

Show & Tell Report

Show & Tell at Microsoft's Cardinal Place, Victoria, London - Friday May 16th 2008

More Fitba

Fitba Game and Updated FBX Exporter for Blender

Gamsutra Article on the Community Games Process

XNA 3.0 To Support Zune Devices

Xbox LIVE Community Games

EA Uses XNA For Rapid Prototyping

Dreamspark

How Rare Recruits Graduates, or Insider Tips on Blagging a Job at Rare