Rick Hoskinson's Blog

I’m back from GameFest 2007 and I can start to take back parts of my life. The last 3 months have possibly been the busiest and most stressful of my entire life. The rewards have been incredible though, and I’m still glowing about the fantastic reception Read More...

Before I say anything else, I want to address the topic of my book. Yes, it is on Indefinite Hold, at least with me at the helm. The reasons were many-fold, but the primary reason is that MDX 2.0 never shipped. The API on which I'd based my entire book is deprecated, which obviously made the book somewhat irrelevant. Perhaps someday I'll return to it and finish what I started, using a technology that might be called MDX's Conspicuous Successor. Read More...

I don’t think I'm really writing a book about how to write games in the context of .Net. I think I'm writing is a book about how to write .Net code in the context of games. As I look over my revised chapter list, I realize that this book could be useful Read More...

Well, starting in about 2 days I'm officially an author with a contract. I'm looking at a year of intense extra work for a minimum of monetary gain. I couldn't be happier. My two coauthors, Jonathan Steed and Wes Greene are gearing up as well. Like me, Read More...