Explaining XNA to Everyday Developers

codecube.net — ... In a world of pre-packaged controls, and silverlight behaviors for animation, it seemed that a lot of people had trouble grasping the concept of storing the state, which occurs separately from update, which occurs separately from the drawing. So I started thinking about how one might explain these concepts to your average day to day business application or systems developer ... read more...

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Split-screens and widescreens.

significant-bits.com — A look at how split-screen modes have evolved with the advent of widescreen TVs, and what else could be done to improve them. read more...

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OOLua - Lua and C++ binding version 1.3 released

dguk.net — Version 1.3 has been released of OOLua and is still the fastest Lua and C++ binding profiled against. This version enables *Constructors. *Configurable build to enable exceptions or disable run time checks etc. *Correctly reports errors and will not call lua_panic. *Varadic macros and varadic macro comma deletion extension where supported. *Lua functions and tables available as parameters to functions and constructors also return values for functions. *Adds parameters traits which enable std::string as parameters to constructors and functions and also function return values. *If run time checks are enabled also checks if a userdata was created by OOLua *Pushing and pulling values return a boolean if not using exceptions *Compatible with Lua 5.1 and 5.2(work3). *Compatible with gmock 1.4 and 1.5 *Compatible with Visual Studio 10 *Improves performance. *Bug fixes read more...

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Create a 3d RPG Game Using a New PHP, Ajax, and AS3 RPG Engine

skybox3d.com — Skybox3d.com is taking pre-orders for their upcoming RPG game engine: RPGMaster, available at www.skybox3d.com The game engine is built using PHP, Ajax, and even Flash 10, all combined together under one easy to administrate web control panel. It is from this control panel that webmasters are able to create an unlimited size game world, with any type of enemy, friend, quests, items, weapons, armor, and much more. To pre-order RPGMaster, visit this URL: http://www.skybox3d.com/store/products/rpgmaster/ read more...

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Abduction Action! Post Mortem

published 4 months, 7 days ago, submitted by DigitalDuffman 4 months, 8 days ago

krissteele.net — Looking back at what went right and wrong during the development of my second Xbox Live Indie Game. read more...

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Kelvin's Space Ranch case study.

incubatorgames.com — A quick overview of our work-for-hire Unity project, its timeline, budget, and other behind the scenes details. read more...

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Fix White Edges on .png Files with a Custom Content Importer

published 5 months, 3 days ago, submitted by DigitalDuffman 5 months, 5 days ago

krissteele.net — Fix those ugly white edges when drawing textures in your XNA game. read more...

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Sound in XNA 3.1, Part II

xna-uk.net — A bit more detail on why you should use XACT to manage the audio in your game. read more...

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