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This blog was mentioned in XNA Club Communique 46
I know I read this one, but I completely missed my own name in it: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/xna/archive/2010/03/18/creators-club-communiqu-46.aspx Pretty amazing, and I only saw it thanks to a pingback. Now I have to get back into XNA… I miss it and I haven’t posted anything here since March. I think that’s when I started playing WoW again. [...]
IGameActionManager interface for simplifying input management.
While reading all the latest WP7 buzz, I got to thinking that I am going to need some way of managing input between devices so as not to have a billion #if WINDOWS_PHONE or #if XBOX preprocessor statements all over my game logic. The solution is a pretty simple yet elegant abstracted IGameActionManager interface. Here [...]
XNA and Silverlight coming to Windows Mobile!
I purchased an HTC Ozone (upgradable to WM6.5), and a couple months later the Droid came to Verizon. Needless to say, I was upset, but there was nothing I could do about it. Enter Microsoft: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/microsoft-talks-windows-phone-7-series-development-ahead-of-gdc/ http://blogs.msdn.com/ckindel/archive/2010/03/04/different-means-better-with-the-new-windows-phone-developer-experience.aspx That’s right… XNA and Silverlight are coming to Windows Mobile 7. Before now, I was just counting the [...]
Two useful classes from Nick Gravelyn
Nick Gravelyn posted something that I thought people might find useful: http://nickgravelyn.com/2010/01/using-interpolators-and-timers/ Using this code would nearly trivialize the use of interpolating intro/outro type effects. I like it!
Crontab script generator
I was making a crontab script for a customer today when I got the inspiration to finally do what I have been wanting to do for a while. I wrote a script to write the script for me. This handy script reads in 4 parameters: The working directory (where to cd to) A binary file [...]
Server crash, backup fail, manual account restorations.
It happens to everyone in the hosting industry: hard drive failure. It happened to me on New Year’s Eve. Worst of all, I had not been watching my backups properly. We use cPanel, and its backups are amazing, but sometimes they are too amazing, because you don’t have to watch them. They are reliable in [...]
BeatPong beat triggered particle systems
No video this time (yet), but I wanted to post to let anyone who is interested know that I have been making some slow progress with BeatPong. I just committed revision 20 which showcases a single particle system that is triggered on a beat. The new XML beat element format is: <Beat effect=”smoke” duration=”00:00:05.0000000″>00:00:12.8150000</Beat> The [...]
BeatPong gameplay demo
I have been hard at work on BeatPong, recently adding a menu system and a score reading at the top. I took the menu system from an XNA creators club example and adapted it to BeatPong. The example can be found here:http://creators.xna.com/en-US/samples/gamestatemanagement. Obviously, if you download the code as is, you will see that the [...]
Domain name registered – geekpowers.com
Well the site is now official! I registered geekpowers.com today, and I’m super stoked that I was able to find what I believe to be a great domain name. The site map is registered with Google, so now I just have to crank out some useful content, and maybe it will attract some readers. It [...]
BeatPong
I’ve been working on a game that, in concept, would synchronize the horizontal velocity of a pong ball to music. The ultimate goal is of course to do this in real time, but for a proof of concept I have started developing the idea with an XML file which signifies the beats of a song. [...]
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