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Fun Silverlight Game: Crayon Cannon

Posted Monday, July 21, 2008 11:53 AM by danielfe
Kudos to the Popfly team for adding new features in their July update. My favorite features are the pre-loading of assets which will pre-load images, audio, video before a game starts so it doesn't lag out and the High Score service. The full list of Read More...
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Bioware Knights of the Old Republic MMO Coming!

Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:07 PM by danielfe
Woohoo! From Joystiq , Bioware has officially spilled the beans that they are building a MMO based on the Knights of the Old Republic game. The first KOTOR game was amazing, clearly one of the best Xbox games ever and an amazing twist at the end...in Read More...
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New Popfly Game Creator Features

Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:35 AM by danielfe
Adam Nathan recently blogged about some of the new features they've added to Popfly Game Creator including the color swapper for skinning actors, guidelines and snapping for aligning characters, actor stamping for easier tiling, new events, and the ability Read More...
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Coding4Fun Talk at TechEd

Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 2:22 PM by danielfe
At TechEd this year, I gave what can only be described as an overly ambitious talk given I only had 45 minutes: Coding4Fun: The Secrets to Programming YouTube, iTunes, Microsoft Zune, Windows Vista Peer-to-Peer APIs, and Even World of Warcraft I say overly Read More...
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AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft V2 in the works

Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:03 PM by danielfe
I recently posted a high-level feature specification for version 2.0 of AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft on the projects Wiki which you can check out here .   Note: If you're new to Warcraft programming or are interested in getting started, I highly Read More...
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Popfly Game Creator Alpha Launches!

Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 11:09 AM by danielfe
Popfly Game Creator Alpha launches today and It's amazing. Kudos to Adam Nathan as he's really shown how Silverlight can build incredibly rich applications. I can only imagine what he'll do when Popfly moves to Silverlight 2! Here's the Channel 9 interview Read More...
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Session Notes: Life on the Bungie Farm: Fun Things to do with 180 servers and 350 processors

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:48 PM by danielfe
Speakers: Luis Villegas, Sean Shypula from Bungie Distributed client/server system split up, runs it in parallel processes user submitted tasks in parallel 180 rackmounted machines 300 processes can use Advantages speed up time consuming tasks - (rendering Read More...
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Panel: Future of MMOs

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:56 PM by danielfe
Speakers: MC of event, Jon Wood - Managing Editor MMORPG.com Jack Emmert - Founder, Cryptic Studios, Champions Online, City of Heroes/Villans One other person, Mark Jacobs or "Matt" from Cryptic Ray Muzyka - General Manager of Bioware, haven't Read More...
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Session: Star Wars, The Force Unleashed

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:50 PM by danielfe
Full Title: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed: How LucasArts is Building a Game Development Team and a Technology Pipeline...at the same time Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is a new, upcoming title Storyline: Darth Vader's secret apprentice, between episodes Read More...
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Top 10 Interesting Nuggets from the Microsoft GDC Keynote

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:40 PM by danielfe
The US video game industry revenue is now $18 Billion and continues to grow. Games have not only surpassed the movie industry, they have also surpassed the music industry (source: Jupiter Research) 7 different Xbox titles sold over 1MM units in the 2007 Read More...
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Session: WiiFit: Creating a Brand New Interface for the Home Console

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:02 PM by danielfe
Speaker: Takao Sawano WiiFit Examples Family weighing themselves and tracking health Father doing push ups on balance board Mother doing yoga on the board Games: Kid taking headers playing soccer goalie Games: Grandfather using ski-jump Games: Mother Read More...
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Session: Rules of Engagement: Blizzard's Approach to Multiplayer Game Design

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:01 PM by danielfe
Speaker: Rob Pardo, Blizzard Entertainment Rough notes below   Game Balance - solo to max level - important role in a group, raid, and group PVP - Starcraft - Race totally different - Better players can win games fast - Offense over defense (don't Read More...
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Session: Taking Xbox LIVE Arcade Games to the Next Level

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:00 PM by danielfe
Note: I'll be regularly blogging on session at GDC (Game Developer Conference) Rough notes Speaker: Scott Austin: Xbox LIVE Arcade, Microsoft I just interviewed Scott and we'll be posting the video on Channel 9 in the next few days Games N+ - Level editor Read More...
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AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft now available!

Posted Friday, December 14, 2007 5:18 PM by danielfe
I'm proud to announce that AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft is now available to download from CodePlex ! This was one of those personal projects done in my "free" time, but its amazing to see how well it turned out, kudos to our extensibility Read More...
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Wiimote Library for Developers on Coding4Fun

Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:12 AM by danielfe
Brian Peek just published his latest article, a .NET library for easy programming of a Nintendo Wiimote controller . His article and project on Channel9 includes the full source code for the library and how he built everything. The cool part is of course Read More...
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