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Finish the...
28 November 08 02:48 PM | mitchw | 1 Comments   

When we shipped XNA Game Studio 3.0 last month, and then turned on Xbox LIVE Community Games this month, that, to me, really completed our initial vision for XNA Game Studio, the changes in the way games are made, and creating opportunities for a new Read More...

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The One About Storage
15 October 08 08:31 PM | mitchw | 4 Comments   

So I’ve played quite a few XNAGS games, and quite a few that have been released to Xbox LIVE Marketplace as part of the Xbox LIVE Community Games beta. Based on the types of issues we’ve seen and feedback in general about good development practices, we Read More...

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A lot has happened...
28 May 08 10:01 AM | mitchw | 1 Comments   

Since I last wrote about XACT compression over a year ago. Let's see: We released XNA Game Studio 2.0 . We've built a version of XNA Game Studio that will enable the Dream Build Play winners to publish their XNA Framework based games on Xbox LIVE Arcade. Read More...

Audio Compression using XACT
27 April 07 05:25 PM | mitchw | 1 Comments   

There are two pieces of feedback that I hear quite a bit related to the audio support in XNA Game Studio Express. It only supports WAV files. All of my sounds are in a different format, such as WMA. Audio binaries are too large. WAV isn't compressed, Read More...

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XNA Framework Feature Question: Audio
26 April 07 02:34 PM | mitchw | 4 Comments   

The native XACT APIs have added the support for programmatic wave playback. I.e. at runtime, you can load *.wav files into a Wavebank and play them from there, without needing to create a project and compile the binaries. This is something we're looking Read More...

XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 Refresh is Available!
24 April 07 09:32 AM | mitchw | 0 Comments   

As detailed here , we've released an update to XNA Game Studio Express today. You can get an idea of what's in it by reading this announcement post. The primary goal of this release was to get official Vista support into the product. We also took the Read More...

XNA Game Studio Express is available!
11 December 06 11:47 AM | mitchw | 0 Comments   

XNA Game Studio Express is now available for download. http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/XNA This includes the Xbox 360 side of things as well. You can set up your Xbox 360 via the Xbox Live Marketplace. So let's see what you got! Your game may even make Read More...

XNA Happenings
26 October 06 09:52 AM | mitchw | 0 Comments   

You've probably seen the post announcing we're releasing a Beta 2 of XNA Game Studio Express . This release contains lots of fixes and tweaks based on feedback and it includes the much anticipated Content Pipeline! As we get closer to release, I'll have Read More...

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GO BUCKS!
10 September 06 12:14 AM | mitchw | 2 Comments   

Ohio State 24 Texas 7 Read More...

Game.GameServices
06 September 06 09:54 AM | mitchw | 21 Comments   

I was originally going to create a tutorial that walks you through creating a custom GameComponent , perhaps the Framerate component from my demo or an event driven Keyboard component, but I’ve actually seen several of these pop up over the last few days Read More...

Game Component Demo Is Up
01 September 06 05:11 PM | mitchw | 3 Comments   

I put my video for the Game Component demo up on the XNA Team Blog and forgot to mention it here. Oops! :) http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2006/08/31/734204.aspx Read More...

XNA Game Studio Express (Beta) is now available for download!
30 August 06 08:57 AM | mitchw | 3 Comments   

You can grab it here . This is obviously a beta, so there are a few rough edges here and there that we are working on. If you have how-to or general questions, please go to the forums at http://msdn.com/xna/forums/ . If you find a bug or would like to Read More...

Getting closer...
29 August 06 07:45 PM | mitchw | 1 Comments   

Tommorrow (morning?) the beta for XNA Game Studio Express should be available for you to download! I'm going to do a video capture of the Gamefest demos I did so you guys can get an idea of what the component model looks like and some of the things you Read More...

XNA Game Studio Express
28 August 06 02:40 PM | mitchw | 1 Comments   

So you've all probably heard by now what I've been working on. It's great to finally be able to talk about this stuff. It's really exciting to read the reactions and to see that a lot of people are interested in XNA! Just a few more days and you'll be Read More...

Going to Gamefest?
28 June 06 11:55 PM | mitchw | 0 Comments   

The Gamefest website has been updated. You can now register as well as get conference details and agenda. I'll be giving the Creating Games with the XNA Framework talk. It should be an exciting session with a deep dive into the XNA Framework and lots Read More...