How To Make A Better Community Game

published 22 days, 19 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 22 days, 19 hours ago

nickontech.com — Nick was sitting around playing all sorts of games in review and playtesting, as well as thinking of his own game, he figured he would gather his thoughts and write up a post on the things he thinks are important when making a game for Xbox LIVE Community Games. These are, of course, additions or elaborations on the things already present in the Best Practices guide and the Creating Great Community Games list. read more...

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Initial impressions on the XNA 3.0 Platformer Starter Kit

published 26 days, 21 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 26 days, 22 hours ago

geekswithblogs.net — Chris Williams has posted his initial impressions on the XNA 3.0 Platformer Starter Kit. It posts that it doesn't come with as much media than say one from GarageGames for their TorqueX product, but does has nice features, and has a great price tag, FREE! read more...

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XNA Series - Game Components

published 27 days, 4 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 27 days, 6 hours ago

johnnygizmo.blogspot.com — JohnyGizmo thought he would talk about a pretty cool class in XNA called GameComponent and its child Class DrawableGameComponent. These classes are made to add components to your game in a modular way. A component is something that needs to update with your game. DrawableGameComponent inherits GameComponent and adds functionality so that the component is also drawn at proper times as well. You could actually re-design our GameObject class as a DrawableGameComponent or at least inherit a class from DrawableGameComponent to give us the added functionality. Now from his reading, it seems that a lot of people think GameComponents are are really aimed at single game objects like a tank, but to add a TankManager class that would deal with the updating and drawing of all the tank objects in our game. But it certainly doesn't hurt to learn the type in an easy way. read more...

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OGRE 1.6.0 Final ('Shoggoth') Released

published 27 days, 2 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 27 days, 6 hours ago

ogre3d.org — Following a period of 'bedding in' as a Release Candidate, we've now released OGRE v1.6 as the new, official stable version for all users. Here's a reminder of the main new feature points in v1.6 over v1.4: * New more powerful script compilers * Geometry shaders in OpenGL * Antialiasing on render textures as well as windows * sRGB gamma correction * Alpha to coverage support * New 'Portal Connected Zone' SceneManager * Parallel-Split Shadow Map support * Improved tangent generation * Skeletal blend masks * New background loading options * Custom memory allocator support read more...

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Sponsored Feature: Xbox Live Community Games

published 27 days, 6 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 27 days, 6 hours ago

gamasutra.com — In this sponsored feature, part of Gamasutra's XNA microsite, Microsoft's Hawkins presents a comprehensive overview of Xbox Live Community Games, which uses XNA Creators Club and a peer-reviewed submission process to allow indies to put their games onto Xbox 360, starting on November 19th. read more...

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Nite To Unite Raises $750,000 For Kids Charities

published 28 days, 21 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 28 days, 23 hours ago

gamasutra.com — The ESA Foundation's annual Nite to Unite raised $750,000 for children's charities at its recent gala. read more...

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Play With The Whole World: Tandem Games & The Intel Software Partner

published 29 days, 2 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 29 days, 4 hours ago

gamasutra.com — In this Intel-sponsored feature article, the Austin-based independent developer Tandem Games explains the optimization and development support that they received from being part of the Intel Software Partner Program. read more...

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Analysis: On Theme And Game Design

published 29 days, 5 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 29 days, 5 hours ago

gamasutra.com — In this powerful analysis, game designer Daniel Cook considers the role of themes, from pirates to princesses, in game development, asking why games seem so limited in that area compared to film and literature -- and laying out some possible answers. read more...

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