It's not just about Photoshop any more: Louis Ingenthron made a Gimp .xcf importer for the XNA Framework Content Pipeline. Sweet!

Awesome XNA MVP Matt Pettineo responded to my previous post by doing exactly what I hoped someone might do, and created a Photoshop .psd importer for the XNA Framework Content Pipeline. And for my next trick: man, wouldn't it be cool if some enterprising...

Michael Klucher writes about a Paint.NET plugin for loading and saving Photoshop files . And this plugin includes C# source for parsing the .psd format. Hmm. I wonder how hard it would be to turn this into an XNA Framework texture importer, so you could...

Da Lama ao Caos , by Chico Science & Nação Zumbi. Released in 1994, but I only just discovered it. Brazilian hip-hop spiced with a dash of Jane's Addiction. Great stuff.

I hate writing this post. It makes me feel like a grouchy old man. I like to be helpful and share whatever things I know. This is not an official part of my job (I don't get paid for it) but I find it helps me think, helps me understand what pain points...

My colleague Dean has a post about the upcoming Avatar functionality in Game Studio 3.1. He says this is but the first of many, so keep an eye on his site!

When developing 3D games it is useful to have a debug camera that lets you quickly move around the world and view things from any angle. Without this you will waste a great deal of time laboriously moving your player character to the areas you want to...

One use of tweakables in MotoGP was to alter the flow of time. We had the following controls: run/go - if false, skip all calls to Update (but keep on calling Draw) run/speed - changes the rate at which Update is called, to speed up or slow down the simulation...

Games are full of constant values. How high can my character jump? How long does it take to reload my crossbow? How much damage can a cat inflict on a zombie? What is the balance between ambient and diffuse in my lighting rig? How long does my game take...