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20 October 2009
New Cape Cod XNA Group – First Meeting Friday 10/23
The new Cape Cod XNA user group will offer a chance to learn and share knowledge about creating games with XNA (which builds on .NET to make games for the PC, XBox 360, and Zune.) The group’s first meeting is this Friday, October 23rd, at Venture in Hyannis: Read More...
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02 July 2009
Kodu (Game Programming Environment) Now Available
On an earlier Roadshow ( winter 2008 ), I gave a preview of a great environment from Microsoft Research for making game programming friendly and accessible to a wider audience, and especially children.  At the time it was called “Boku”, but was since Read More...
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24 June 2009
Boston XNA Developers Group June 24 Meeting – XNA Game Studio 3.1
Tonight’s meeting of the Boston XNA Developers Group (6:00 in Waltham) will feature Michael Cummings speaking on what’s in the newly-released XNA Game Studio 3.1 .  XNA Game Studio helps you create games that can run on PCs, XBox 360, and Zune, all Read More...
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08 June 2009
New Channel 9 Screencast on XNA Game Development
I’ve created a new screencast on creating games with XNA and, thanks to my teammate Brian Johnson , it’s now available on our Northeast page on Channel 9 !   Northeast Roadshow - XNA Game Development Based on the Spring Roadshow session, this is Read More...
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26 January 2009
January Boston XNA Meeting Postponed
Due to the threat of significant snow this Wednesday, the January 28th Boston XNA Developer Group meeting has been moved out one week to February 4th at 6:00 (in MPR-B). The Boston XNA Developer Group normally meets on the 4th Wednesday of each month Read More...
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22 July 2008
Boston XNA July 23rd Meeting on 2D Role Playing Game Development
  The Boston XNA Developers Group is an open user group for anyone interested in learning about game development with the .NET-based XNA framework.  Attendance is open and everyone is welcome, including students and parents with their programming-interested Read More...
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06 July 2008
Giving Two User Group Talks on XNA This Week!
Some coincidental scheduling has given me a chance to speak with both the Boston .NET and Beantown .NET user groups this week, both on XNA ! You'll have two chances to get up to speed on how to create games easily for Windows, XBox 360, and the Zune using Read More...
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25 June 2008
June Boston XNA Meeting Canceled
Unfortunately, tonight's (6/23) meeting for the Boston XNA Developers Group will have to be canceled.  A last-minute scheduling problem has come up, so we're going to punt on this month's meeting. We'll continue as usual with the July meeting. If Read More...
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23 June 2008
Northeast XNA Game Developer Featured on CNN
[Thanks to Lindsay for the heads-up!] Currently featured as the lead Tech story is an article featuring the Northeast's own James Silva and the story of his creation of a game called "Dishwasher: Dead Samurai" using XNA (coming later this year Read More...
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27 May 2008
Boston XNA Developer Group Wednesday
Just a reminder that the Boston XNA Developer Group will be having a meeting at its usual day/time (fourth Wednesday of the month), tomorrow, May 28th at 6:00 at the Microsoft office in Waltham, MA. Michael Cummings will be presenting. The content level Read More...
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08 May 2008
XNA Game Studio 3.0 CTP Released
Been waiting to try your hand at creating XNA games for the Zune? Want to use Visual Studio 2008 (express, standard, or higher) as well? Check out the XNA Game Studio 3.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) ! The XNA Team Blog has the details: http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2008/05/07/announcing-xna-game-studio-3-0-community-technical-preview-ctp.aspx Read More...
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09 April 2008
Boston XNA Developers Group Update
The Boston XNA Developers Group is dedicated to learning and using XNA to create games for Windows and Xbox 360 (and later on, the Zune!) No game development experience is required! Next Meeting Our next meeting will be on April 24th, 6-8 PM at the Microsoft Read More...
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13 March 2008
Learn XNA at the Next Boston XNA Developers Group Meeting
On March 26th at the next Boston XNA Developers Group meeting, we're starting the process of learning XNA . (The first meeting was a non-technical overview of the world of XNA.) Join Michael Cummings and me as we walk through creating a basic 2D game Read More...
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01 March 2008
Boston XNA Meeting Resources
Thanks to everyone who came to the first meeting of the Boston XNA Developers Group ! It was a casual evening to talk games and down Pop Rocks. We introduced the concepts behind XNA and Game Studio, took in some of the news from GDC, and had a look at Read More...
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25 February 2008
Boston XNA Developers Group Meeting Wednesday 2/27
A reminder that the first meeting of the shiny new Boston XNA Developers Group ( http://bostonxna.org ) will be this Wednesday, February 27th, from 6-8 PM at the Microsoft offices at 201 Jones Road (6th Floor) in Waltham, MA. The group is open to everyone Read More...
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