This blog is officially closed and will no longer be updated. New posts will be made to my new blog . Thank you for playing

I have been working with the legal in Microsoft to see if it is possible to convert XNAExtras into a Shared Source project (perhaps on Codeplex ). There is still a bit of work to do on this, but I'm hopeful that something can be worked out. Opening it...

My apologies for the lack of any real content on this site for the past month or so. I've been rather busy doing non-game related activities, many of which center around making preparations to start a new job outside of Microsoft. It's been a lot of fun...

Normally, my list of publications lives on http://research.microsoft.com/~garykac , but since that page may be disappearing soon, here is a list (as of 1 December 2006 - with links to papers when available). Publications G.Kacmarcik, M.Gamon...

This is a minor update: Beta2 update (ContentManager) Minor bug fix with TextBoxes not deleting their backgrounds. Initial stab at compiling for the 360 (by #ifdef'ing references to Texture2D.FromFile so that they can be removed easily) Temporarily...