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Weekly Developer Show

Posted Friday, February 01, 2008 8:51 AM by briankel
Dan Fernandez recently joined our team to work with Jeff, Charles, and the rest of the Channel 9 / On10 / etc. crew. Shortly after joining the team Dan approached me about the idea of being his co-host for a weekly show covering what's hot in developer Read More...
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XNA: Enabling studios and publishers to develop better games

Posted Monday, January 23, 2006 12:32 PM by briankel
The past few months have been keeping me pretty busy, as you might discern from the lack of blog entries. That's because after we shipped Visual Studio 2005 on November 7th I transferred into a new role at Microsoft. My new job is on the XNA team, which Read More...
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Coding4Fun Video on Channel9

Posted Thursday, November 17, 2005 2:09 PM by briankel
Channel9 just posted a video interview of Dan Fernandez, Brian Keller, John Wingfield, and Andy Dunn from the Coding4Fun team showing off some coding projects from the site. Read More...
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The Finalizer Case Study

Posted Tuesday, October 18, 2005 7:51 PM by briankel
Want to know more about how The Finalizer was built? In case you haven't seen it, The Finalizer is a BattleBot which is controlled by a .NET Compact Framework application running on a Pocket PC, and it can even be driven remotely using an XBox controller! Read More...
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New Blog Flair Sighting!

Posted Saturday, October 15, 2005 9:42 AM by briankel
The ZMan reports that Glenn on IRComm.net may have actually been the first Coding4Fun reader to post some flair . Thanks, Glenn! Read More...
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Dystopia Demo Released to Rave Reviews!

Posted Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:34 PM by briankel
Dystopia released their Half-Life 2 mod for download a couple of weeks ago and the response has been incredible! From Fuzzy: Our release weekend was huge, we've had over 100,000 downloads of the demo and we cracked a peak player count of 2000; higher Read More...
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Board Game to Help Kids Learn Programming

Posted Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:20 PM by briankel
Check out C-Jump . This is kind of like Chutes and Ladders - except that instead of Ladders, you have While loops, and instead of Chutes you have Goto's . I wish we had this stuff when I was a kid! It would be great to see a C# or Visual Basic version Read More...
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Programming video game "creature" AI

Posted Monday, August 08, 2005 2:34 PM by briankel
Chris Williams has written another great article based on his Heroic Adventure! role playing game. This one is about giving your creatures (non-player characters, monsters, animals, etc.) an artificial intelligence engine to make them appear lifelike Read More...
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IDX3D Engine ported to C# 2.0

Posted Tuesday, August 02, 2005 1:02 PM by briankel
Alan Simes recently posted a fully C# version of Peter Walser's original IDX3D engine. You can download it here - it was built with the beta of Visual C# 2005 so you can download Express and compile it, or run the .EXE included with Alan's .ZIP to get Read More...
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EscapeYesterworld.com

Posted Wednesday, July 27, 2005 3:08 PM by briankel
Check out the latest Visual Studio / SQL Server marketing video/interactive presentation - there's not much "tech" here but the videos are actually pretty amusing. www.escapeyesterworld.com And if you're interested in creating your own "Mystery Science Read More...
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MSN System Tray Web Search

Posted Tuesday, July 26, 2005 3:12 PM by briankel
This is a cool application that shows off the great developer API's that MSN Search enables. Gus Pinto wrote an application which "hosts" the MSN Search within his task bar for quick access and maximum screen real estate savings. Thanks to Gus for emailing Read More...
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More RPG goodness from Chris Williams

Posted Monday, July 18, 2005 5:11 AM by briankel
In his latest article about Heroic Adventure , Chris Williams describes his approach for building maps in his RPG. Check it out: http://geekswithblogs.net/cwilliams/articles/45539.aspx Read More...
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How Bungie built Bungie.net

Posted Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:58 PM by briankel
This is a great article detailing how Bungie built Bungie.net using the .NET Framework. Bungie.net is your one-stop shop to find out all the latest Halo 2 news, and of course to check your stats! Check it out: Bungie.net Technical Case Study Read More...
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Old video game ads

Posted Tuesday, June 14, 2005 6:52 PM by briankel
These are classic! Thanks to Major Nelson for the post. I can still remember getting my first copy of Nintendo Power. Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, A, B, Select, Start! Anyway - check out the ads here . Read More...
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Coding4Fun Weekly Update: Gone Fishing

Posted Friday, June 10, 2005 1:31 PM by briankel
Just a quick post to let the Coding4Fun community know that there are no new articles this week since the Coding4Fun crew is at TechEd. We'll resume next week with some new content - see you then! Read More...
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