First rule of Fight Club: Don’t talk about fight club.  Corollary: In any group of men the most annoying person will use that line during a period of silence. But what about your game?  How do you teach it to fight?  What is the philosophy...

In the paper: Learning to Solve Game Trees , it isn’t about you learning how to solve game trees but rather if the person playing the game will be able to reach the final goal in your game.  This paper is pretty much readable by someone with an AP...

How do you set your skill levels of players of your game? Now normally you would just use the actual score and let it go at that. But that is sort of a common way to do it. What if you stepped up your game (no pun intended) and instead used a Bayesian...

You built the memory game, and you want to add some controls, not navigational controls, never add navigation to the app bar in any language. Make sure to review the following, if you were around during the paper documentation days, you get the manual...

First, you will need to follow a lengthy and somewhat boring tutorial, keep in mind that boredom is part of learning. It is hard, historically, to learn during times of panic, battle or in fear of your life, during those times you should be applying what...

Three problems: Snap and Fill Pause the game Restarting the game Snap and Fill can be done using CSS or programmatically.  Either way you will need to pause the game and then restore the state, you then have to show the either a smaller image of...

Hover Buttons, totally cool. Totally badly documented, I infer this from the search result for Hover Buttons. Tess did a nice blog on create Hover buttons for one of the initial Betas. Then nothing, ok, except for this blog, which is similar to nothing...

Hover buttons, pretty cool, but not well explained in the documentation that I have found.  Hover buttons add a cool effect and cause hovering of an object over another object to appear to be similar to a click. The best examples of using the Hover...

As usual in the development cycle there are so may tools that can be used. Paper and Pen/Pencil, for many good designers the way to go. Since I am not a good designer, rather a lazy guy, after all I want to do is go swimming in the ocean and then hang...

If you like the old style shooters then this one is for you!  Lost Gardens has updates the images a few years ago, and if you want to dig into some older C++ code, this is one for you.    

Lost Gardens is an awesome web site/Blog. Here are some of the links to the graphics: http://www.lostgarden.com/2006/07/more-free-game-graphics.html SpaceCute: http://lostgarden.com/SpaceCute%20PNG.zip http://www.lostgarden.com/2007/05/dancs-miraculously...

Ok, I copyright the idea of Irate Dolphins as a game series as of today: Irate Dolphins @2012.  So now I will describe the game: Top Line: A pod of dolphins decide to fight the land based caused pollution of the plastic garbage, noise, sewage, and...

I really like Expression Design 4, and one of the things that is hidden in the samples folder is the artwork called “playing with your peas”.  You can easily use this in a simple game you design with Expression Design/Blend, etc.    The...

I have been reviewing a number of Game Engines and have checked out Easel JS and Scirra.  Really like Scirra with respect to support, documentation and solid tool.  Easel JS is more oriented toward people who need a high degree of customization...

http://www.kinecthacks.net/skiranger-beta-released/ Check it out. I was wrong, there are some really cool games out there.

You might have seen the following comment in the camera explorer: //Do not change Elevation Angle often, please see documentation on this and Kinect Explorer for a robust example Then you tried to find the Kinect Explorer. Or maybe the documentation...

Really.  David Rousset a fellow blogger make this a couple of years ago, and it works with the Windows Phone 7 XNA Platformer.  Wow.  You didn’t really think I would write anything new.  Ok, I might, but right now it will be for Kinect...

Oh boy, here is a very serious use of Sharepoint and Speech Services to read-out files.  Check it out, especially if you are a student looking for a cool, but serious, senior project.  There is no download just source code and likely a developer...

First off start by carefully following Dan Fernandez’s video series on setting up your Kinect Setting up your Development Environment Which sounds like you are going to find out how to plug stuff in, etc. but it isn’t.  Of course you will need the...

This looks a fun game, I am going to get it and play it!  Check out the video! Enough said.

Just curious, where are the Windows Based Kinect games?  Or do we have to create world stopping apps like on Coding4Fun?  Geez, what if I just want to build and create a stupid game? Coding4Fun has become more like Coding4Serious on the Kinect...