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Adventures in XNA 6: A Wii Flock of Boids

Here's a flock of butterflies, brought to you in XNA, which can soar around their environment with the help of the Wii controller. By tilting and rolling the Wiimote, you can control the flight of the lead butterfly. The rest of the flock sticks together, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 12:43 PM by robburke | 8 Comments

Guitar and Wii Controller into XNA: All Games are Wish Fulfillments

One of my favourite game designers of all time, Tim Schafer (Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, Psychonauts) once hammered home during a talk at the Game Developers Conference that all games are wish fulfillments . That probably explains why I played a lot Read More...
Posted Friday, April 13, 2007 1:32 PM by robburke | 3 Comments

Adventures in XNA 5: The Sharing of Games is About to Begin

An imminent update to the XNA Framework will allow for sharing of packaged XNA Game Studio Express Games. Developers will be able to package their binary games into a single file to share with other users of XNA Game Studio Express. These files can be Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:56 AM by robburke | 3 Comments

Adventures in XNA 4: XNA Creators Club Goes Live at the GDC

If there's one thing that the XBox teams seem to nail, it's the community orientation of sites like the new XNA Creators Club . It's the shiny new hub for all things XNA, including samples, downloadable games, video tutorials, developer forums, and more. Read More...
Posted Monday, March 05, 2007 11:09 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

Adventures in XNA 3: The XNA Animation Component Library

I've mentioned the XNA Animation Component Library in passing in my last two posts on XNA, so I wanted to take a moment to direct you toward the XNA Animation Component Library. I will confess: there is a reason it took me a while to launch myself into Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 12:54 AM by robburke | 2 Comments

Adventures in XNA 2: How Hard is XNA Development, Really?

You probably don't read the Official XBox Magazine , which is billed as "The UK's Number One XBox360 Magazine." All you need to know is that it's a magazine written by fanboys, for fanboys. Impartiality doesn't seem to be on tap there, but admiration Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2007 7:54 PM by robburke | 2 Comments

Adventures in XNA 1: Mind Balance Reborn

I sank my teeth into XNA last week and have both the rings under my eyes to prove it, as well as a complete game running on my XBox360! I've heard the XNA vision articulated as "enabling the YouTube of Games." XNA has opened up the XBox360 game console Read More...
Posted Monday, February 26, 2007 11:39 PM by robburke | 4 Comments

A week in the arctic (.NET, AI, Photography, Moose)

In the spirit of five things you didn't know about me comes thing #6 you were blissfully unaware of: #6: I spent a summer north of the arctic circle, in Tromsø, northern Norway and #6a: I was up there again last week! Here's stuff from my trip along the Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:33 AM by robburke | 1 Comments

XNA Game Studio Released, just in time for the holidays

Vista has launched here in Ireland, and I'm long overdue for writing about that (soon, soon)... but what better way to wrest myself away from Gears of War than to say that XNA Game Studio Express has been released , and now you can author your own games Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:00 AM by robburke | 1 Comments

XNA Video Montage shows nascent indie games (and XNA Studio Beta 2, with Content Pipeline!)

I'm impressed by the diversity and quality of the nascent indie games featured in this XNA Video Montage , which was released on Major Nelson's blog in a format which is optimized for the Zune.* XNA Game Studio is a set of tools based on Visual C# Express Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:58 AM by robburke | 0 Comments

Dave and Rob's Top 5 Tips for Free Microsoft Support and Learning Resources (and the Best of the Rest!)

Dave and Rob ’s Top 5 Tips for Free Microsoft Support and Learning Resources 1. MSDN Forums – http://forums.msdn.com Looking for answers to your toughest technical questions? The MSDN forums are regularly visited by members of the product teams, MVPs, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 20, 2006 4:57 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

XNA Studio Express Beta now available

I just got word (through my free subscription to the Connect program) that XNA Game Studio Express Beta is available for download at the Microsoft Download Center from the location at this link . You may be interested in a discussion in the XNA Team Blog Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:03 PM by robburke | 2 Comments

Tame the CLR: Expect game-quality real-time performance from managed code

Game developers may be skeptical at first that the CLR's managed environment can provide consistent, exceptional, real-time performance, but personal experience has shown me that for most situations it can. Working within .NET's managed environment provides Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 4:54 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

XNA Game Studio Express

" XNA Game Studio Express is a set of tools based on Visual C# Express 2005 that allow students and hobbyists to build games that target both Windows and Xbox 360." To all the enthusiasts, hobbyists and students who have ever asked me if they could develop Read More...
Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 4:35 PM by robburke | 5 Comments

Microsoft Research, in graphic detail, at Siggraph 2006

While I was away in Canada last week, Siggraph 2006 was taking place down in Boston. Many of the papers from that enormously engaging conference on graphics and interactive techniques are now available on the web . During the conference, I enjoyed reading Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 5:43 PM by robburke | 5 Comments
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