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Thursday, November 20, 2008 8:19 AM

Build cool Yuletide Gifts for your Friends, Family and others: Learning how to move things around Part 2

In the previous blog entry I talked about moving your sprite using the D-Key on the Gamepad or the keyboard.  What if you want to use the thumbsticks on the gamepad?  This is a little more tricky because the thumbstick uses the Vector2 object,
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Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:19 AM

Build cool Yuletide Gifts for your Friends, Family and others: Adding images to your game

In this blog, we will go over briefly how to add an image that you will use in the next blog to move around.  First you can create a bitmap or a PNG, or find one on the web.  In our case I am going to use a simple circle that I create in Paint
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:43 AM

Build fun games for gifts for your friends and family!

Build a Yuletide Game for your family and friends!  It's that time of year for many cultures that thoughts turn to family, friends and exchanging gifts! Winter has descended upon my family here in Southern California (SoCal as I like to think of
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:56 AM

Installing XNA 3.0 Game Studio getting ready to build a Christmas Gift!

It's Christmas time and what better thing to do than to build a game to give away as a Christmas gift? Especially one that works on many different devices? To get started you will need to make sure you have one of the versions of Visual Studio Express,
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