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Blog Post:
Game Design: UML and Work Items part 1
Surf4Fun
In software design there are many names for the design process. In the process I am going over right now is a mix of UML and Storyboarding because that is the mood I am in. In this case we will story board using UML to create work items which we will link to items in PowerPoint using the storyboard...
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21 Jul 2012
Blog Post:
Game Design: Tools you need to get familiar with, a bunch of downloads and installs
Surf4Fun
In the current environment of game design you can get away with flash and dash game design, that is rapidly put together your game post it and make your money then move on to another project. Many technologies go this way from time to time and then they move back to design, design, build, maintain...
on
20 Jul 2012
Blog Post:
Game Design && UML && TFS && Windows 8 Marketplace
Surf4Fun
So if you want to design an adventure game, let’s keep it really simple, using text only. Like the old days. How would you do the design? Would you be able to get into a Windows 8 design for the Windows Marketplace? Would you use a design tool? How do you do the project planning...
on
31 May 2012
Blog Post:
Setting Up Team Foundation Server (not services) on Windows 8
Surf4Fun
First see the forum comment at: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfssetup/thread/2bc48ea2-a652-4f98-9676-2243675c43fa make sure to have IIS up and running and the installation is slick. So run that cmd code as an administrator. Follow the instructions on that site. Then come back here...
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29 May 2012
Blog Post:
Setting up Team Foundation Services on Win8!
Surf4Fun
I am going to make use of Team Foundation Services. There appears to be few problems, but nothing that can’t be overcome with procedural efforts. Now this is different then Team Foundation Server, which is working quite nicely Windows 8. First let’s use the TF services Using the link: http...
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29 May 2012
Blog Post:
WIndows 8 Design: Storyboarding Windows 8 or Windows Phone 7 apps
Surf4Fun
If you are like many software students or professionals, you may be thinking about the high level of design skills that everyone at Microsoft keeps talking about with respect to Metro Design. Me too. It’s kind of like: WTF. Then I think, wow, design is a good idea. If I do a good design job I have...
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29 May 2012
Blog Post:
UML: Software Engineering Institute, Game Design guidance
Surf4Fun
Interesting isn’t it that the game design discussion on the Software Engineering Institute site seems to end around 2005, just as life gets interesting for game design. First of all the XBox team at Microsoft releases the XNA Game Studio, allowing for the first time for people, students, professors...
on
24 Jul 2009
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