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Friday, July 24, 2009 8:20 AM

UML: Software Engineering Institute, Game Design guidance

Interesting isn’t it that the game design discussion on the Software Engineering Institute site seems to end around 2005, just as life gets interesting for game design.  First of all the XBox team at Microsoft releases the XNA Game Studio, allowing
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Sunday, July 12, 2009 11:57 AM

UML: Use Cases Part 2, utilizing <<include>>

In this blog post, no back story, just pure UML today. In this case “Create an Account” is used by a Gamer coming to your site.  The “Create an Account” is included in the User Profile and Security Use Cases (at least at this point of analysis). 
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Monday, July 06, 2009 5:55 PM

UML IS BACK IN VISUAL STUDIO 2010

No more clunky interop with Visio like in VS 2005 and VS 2008.  UML is back in the Visual Studio Team Suite 2010 CTP. You will need to install Visual Studio Team Suite 2010, which is all of the versions put together, Database, Developer, Architect
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Monday, April 06, 2009 8:42 AM

The physics of Avatars

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Friday, March 27, 2009 3:33 PM

Programming languages: C# versus F#, building AI and Physics

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:25 AM

WOW: Lua, World of Warcraft and AI

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Thursday, February 26, 2009 2:04 PM

WOW: Comparing WOW AddOn creation tools

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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:46 PM

WOW: Developing WOW applications using Visual Studio Shell

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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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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
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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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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 10:54 AM

Building an XNA Game that will run on XBox, part 4 of gazillion

Well, let's take a look at our next component, we got the Blue Screen Game (that is: A cornflower blue screen is shown on the screen). You might be asking yourself: "I am a java developer, this C# stuff confuses me", or you might be new to the game design
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