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Creating and using bitmap fonts in XNA

Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 8:00 PM by garykac
As mentioned in a previous post , there is a clear need for a bitmap font generator that provides proper Unicode support. To address this need, I created BMFontGen.exe. This program can generate a bitmap font from any of the fonts currently installed Read More...
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Attachment(s): BitmapFontDemo.zip

Finally...

Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 8:26 AM by garykac
Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express (Beta) is now available! Read More...
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One Codepage to rule them all : Unicode, C#, XNA & Fonts

Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 4:20 PM by garykac
We're all familiar with the time-worn verse: Three Codepages for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Four Hundred and Seventy-Three for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In Read More...
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XNA Framework Content Pipeline

Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:21 PM by garykac
Michael (another PM on the XNA team) has followed Mitch 's lead and bypassed his blog to add a ginormous post directly to the XNA team's blog. His post: The XNA Framework Content Pipeline provides the best overview of the Content Pipeline made available Read More...
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Personality tests and cultural sensitivity in games

Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 12:32 PM by garykac
or "Why don't Pokémon fart in the US?" If you have children of "Pokémon age", then you're probably aware of the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon (PMD) game coming up for the Nintendo DS & GBA. One clever aspect of this game is that you take a personality test Read More...
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First XNA Sample Code

Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 11:07 AM by garykac
Mitch (PM on the XNA team) has been doing a bunch of writing lately it seems - not on his blog , but on the XNA team blog . His latest post: What is the XNA Framework gives a nice summary of the goals, layers and features of the XNA framework. Even if Read More...
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Rico's Talk from Gamefest

Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 10:26 AM by garykac
While the slides and recordings from Gamefest are not yet available on the conference website, Rico Mariani has posted an article on his Performance Tidbits blog: Taming the CLR: How to Write Real-Time Managed Code It's basically a copy of his slides Read More...
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Three Hundred and Sixty Controllers on Windows

Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 7:39 AM by garykac
Being able to use real controllers for my Windows games is a big deal for me. When I first hooked up a 360 controller to my dinky little game it felt noticeably less dinky. There's something very natural about using a mini-joystick and ABXY buttons that Read More...
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XNA Week 1 Summary : What we've learned

Posted Sunday, August 20, 2006 10:24 PM by garykac
There's been a flurry of activity on the XNA forums and websites. Here's a brief summary of what we've learned. The XNA Framework is supported for C# only. No C++, no VB, nor any other langs. Some of the restrictions were for time contraints (they want Read More...
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What's this all about?

Posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:50 PM by garykac
By now you've all probably heard about the announcement earlier this week about the XNA Framework beta that Microsoft will be releasing later this month. If you haven't signed up already to be notified, follow the directions in the XNA FAQ and do so (or Read More...
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