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Monday, August 10, 2009 3:02 PM

VSTS 2010: Using the Directed Graph Diagram part 1 of however many I do till I get distracted again

  Now that VSTS 2010 is available through the CTP program, MSDNAA, BizSpark and MSDN, you can use it to deconstruct applications that you might need to take charge of.  My example is the XNA RPG . The image at the top of the article is an example
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Friday, June 19, 2009 8:42 AM

XNA: Using Fonts in XNA 3.1

XNA 3.1 No difference in how to use Fonts in XNA 3.1 over XNA 2.0.  If you already know how to use text in your project, this won’t be a big help to you.  This article was written to try to look a little smarter than my previous blog may have
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Monday, June 08, 2009 8:46 AM

DLLs: Important stuff, and questions about Angelina Jolie’s use of DLLs

Original title for this blog:   OMG: I appeared to have made a commitment to show how to build a dll in a previous blog and Angelina Jolie tells her story about DLLs I am sorry, I made the statement: “In this blog, we will create a simple DLL that
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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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Wednesday, April 01, 2009 8:53 AM

The physics of the motorized barstool

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:51 PM

Interesting console game: Motorized Barstool

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Friday, March 27, 2009 3:33 PM

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

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:27 AM

Back to the finite state discussion

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:25 AM

WOW: Lua, World of Warcraft and AI

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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:07 PM

WOW: WOW AddonStudio

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Friday, February 13, 2009 2:57 PM

Game Idea: Galileo’s Conspiracy

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Wednesday, December 31, 2008 4:08 AM

Building a Breakout game and Steve Jobs

Taking a slight diversion, the rumors about Steve Job's health do not seem to be confirmed, and let's hope this innovator is healthy. I hope that he is just sick of MacWorld and is hanging around with his wife and four children, working on the next new
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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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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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