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Friday, June 05, 2009 5:02 PM

Need help understanding C#, admit it, this isn’t easy

I have been working with software forever, ok, since I was 16, and I am 55 now.  So why ain’t I rich?  It’s a long and boring story, so stay focused…Oh wait a minute, I am pretty well off.  Software is the way to make money.  But you
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Monday, April 06, 2009 8:42 AM

The physics of Avatars

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Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:59 PM

FUN: Use UML to map your great game idea design processes

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:27 AM

Back to the finite state discussion

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 3:14 PM

AI: Autonomous Avatars

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Thursday, February 26, 2009 2:04 PM

WOW: Comparing WOW AddOn creation tools

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Saturday, February 21, 2009 12:06 PM

What is good subject material? Courts have made the decision

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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:01 PM

Why start game design by using Popfly to do your design?

You have basically two choices in getting started with your game: 1. Pull out the crayons and start drawing game levels, if you are wanting to get started quickly, you will need to make it a side scroller like the template game: Platformer, which shows
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:43 AM

Creating a web presence, part 2

Creating Videos are an important in improving your web presence. Google YouTube is a popular way to go, but you are limited in the size and length of your video to around 10 minutes. To get around that limitations, one of the easy ways to get more time
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Friday, August 29, 2008 5:53 PM

Creating a web presence

As Dan Waters points on his excellent blog post about working in the game industry , you have to be known to be hired. If you are playing games on line, make sure to go for the badges and protect your gamertags. You need to blog, and you need to blog
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:37 AM

What you need to get to start on Web and Video/Console Game Design

Here are the items you will need to have to follow along with this blog, for college students attending an accredited college in the US, all of the following are free, except for the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), if you attend a school that has MSDNAA
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:50 AM

New Zune Review: Create games on the Zune

Wow, with the new CTP release of the XNA Game Studio 3.0 you can create games that work on the Zune. Since we only talk about things you can do using the Express products on this blog, you will need to download VC# 2008 Express. However, if you have access
Posted by SoCal Sam | 2 Comments
Sunday, February 03, 2008 7:33 PM

Pong in 5 Minutes and a careful analysis of Point

Investigating the Point concept in XNA and Pong What is the Point in XNA? Take a look at this video, and use the code snippets below to follow along, the simple graphic is included. ";" mce_src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/devschool/WindowsLiveWriter/cec3fdfd5651_EBBF/video23e853588e26.jpg"
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Monday, December 31, 2007 5:31 AM

Code Snippets: Again with the code snippets

Well the space aliens were asking me about code snippets again, and they were curious if they had to create a separate file for each of the code snippets and put them in the same folder, or could they put them all in the same file. Then again, if you
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Saturday, December 29, 2007 8:44 AM

Pong: The adventure begins again, join in NOW, ADD Graphics

To use code snippets make sure to download the file attachment to this blog! Use the text to follow along with the video, if possible use two monitors for this to really make sense. ";" galleryimg="no" mce_src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/devschool/WindowsLiveWriter/47796c886390_850B/video020715081027.jpg">
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Attachment(s): Develop Mental XNA Files.zip
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