When we shipped XNA Game Studio 3.0 last month, and then turned on Xbox LIVE Community Games this month, that, to me, really completed our initial vision for XNA Game Studio, the changes in the way games are made, and creating opportunities for a new...

So I’ve played quite a few XNAGS games, and quite a few that have been released to Xbox LIVE Marketplace as part of the Xbox LIVE Community Games beta. Based on the types of issues we’ve seen and feedback in general about good development practices, we...

Since I last wrote about XACT compression over a year ago. Let's see: We released XNA Game Studio 2.0 . We've built a version of XNA Game Studio that will enable the Dream Build Play winners to publish their XNA Framework based games on Xbox LIVE Arcade...

There are two pieces of feedback that I hear quite a bit related to the audio support in XNA Game Studio Express. It only supports WAV files. All of my sounds are in a different format, such as WMA. Audio binaries are too large. WAV isn't compressed...

The native XACT APIs have added the support for programmatic wave playback. I.e. at runtime, you can load *.wav files into a Wavebank and play them from there, without needing to create a project and compile the binaries. This is something we're looking...

As detailed here , we've released an update to XNA Game Studio Express today. You can get an idea of what's in it by reading this announcement post. The primary goal of this release was to get official Vista support into the product. We also took the...

XNA Game Studio Express is now available for download. http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/XNA This includes the Xbox 360 side of things as well. You can set up your Xbox 360 via the Xbox Live Marketplace. So let's see what you got! Your game may even...

You've probably seen the post announcing we're releasing a Beta 2 of XNA Game Studio Express . This release contains lots of fixes and tweaks based on feedback and it includes the much anticipated Content Pipeline! As we get closer to release, I'll have...

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I was originally going to create a tutorial that walks you through creating a custom GameComponent , perhaps the Framerate component from my demo or an event driven Keyboard component, but I’ve actually seen several of these pop up over the last few days...

I put my video for the Game Component demo up on the XNA Team Blog and forgot to mention it here. Oops! :) http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2006/08/31/734204.aspx

You can grab it here . This is obviously a beta, so there are a few rough edges here and there that we are working on. If you have how-to or general questions, please go to the forums at http://msdn.com/xna/forums/ . If you find a bug or would like...

Tommorrow (morning?) the beta for XNA Game Studio Express should be available for you to download! I'm going to do a video capture of the Gamefest demos I did so you guys can get an idea of what the component model looks like and some of the things...

So you've all probably heard by now what I've been working on. It's great to finally be able to talk about this stuff. It's really exciting to read the reactions and to see that a lot of people are interested in XNA! Just a few more days and you'll be...

The Gamefest website has been updated. You can now register as well as get conference details and agenda. I'll be giving the Creating Games with the XNA Framework talk. It should be an exciting session with a deep dive into the XNA Framework and lots...

The Microsoft Gamefest website is up. Not a lot of information at the moment, but you can sign up to get updates as they happen.

Tomorrow will be my last day on the Windows SDK team. Monday I join the Xna team as Program Manager for the Xna Framework. I'm really excited about the opportunity and anyone that knows me knows that this is just about the perfect job for me. Working...

Are you a hobby, casual or Indie game developer? If so, we're looking for participants in a usability study which will help us build better products and technologies to help serve your needs in this area. Participation criteria: You must have...

Twice a year the Developer Division here at Microsoft has an all-hands meeting. After the meeting we have a Halo 2 tournament. 12 teams, 7 rounds, lots of fun and good competition. This time things went our (Windows SDK) way. I'm now the proud owner of...

The latest DirectX SDK has been posted. Interesting tid bits: .NET 2.0 support DirectX10 Technology Preview for Vista http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/sdk/

The new Xbox.com is up and running with Xbox 360 features. You can now include your Gamer Card in web pages, blogs, etc. by including the following fragment: < iframe src = " http://gamercard.xbox.com/REPLACE-THIS-WITH-YOUR-GAMERTAG.card " scrolling...

Mantis is a WinFX based multiplayer game and engine. All of the GUI and rendering is done using Windows Presentation Foundation and the networking is done using Window Communication Foundation. If you are attending the PDC, be sure to check it out at...

Andy has posted that there is going to be a DirectX Birds of a Feather session at the PDC next week. Sounds fun! http://www.thezbuffer.com/articles/267.aspx

Here is another screen shot of the game I've been working on. It uses Windows Communication Foundation (Indigo) for the networking and Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon) for the rendering. I'll talk more in the future about the architecture, how...

Here's little teaser for what I've been working on lately. I'll give more details as we get closer to the PDC. See you there!