I must confess that I am not a serious gamer. I am not serious about playing games and I am not all that fond of games that are too serious. I'm more interested in creating games than in playing them but honestly I don't want to work all that hard on it anymore. So what I am always looking for are simple and light weight games to create and/or play. So obviously when a site called Very Silly Games opens up it gets my attention. Rob Miles has opened this site . He claims that it is not a blatant attempt

Torque X is an extremely powerful game development tool (built on Microsoft's XNA) from GarageGames. Garage Games is running a special edition of their Torque X Boot Camps specifically designed for educators. It's coming in January and will be hosted by the Guildhall at SMU (one of the premier university game development programs in the world). The full announcement is here but I have included some of the announcement below: January 17-19th, 2008 The Guildhall at SMU, Plano, TX Torque X has just

I love Rob Miles blog . If there is a post from Rob in my RSS reader it is likely to be one of the first things I read. Rob is on the faculty of the University of Hull in England and is a real teacher. By that I mean he seems to really enjoy teaching and sharing what he knows with students. That is my kind of teacher. I also find that the clear and often humorous style he uses in his blog carries over to his more technical writing as well. Understand that Rob and I are both of the "bad jokes" school

There really aren't a lot of books on XNA available yet (though some are coming) and real textbooks seem to be trailing the rest of the books. None of that is stopping the really innovative teachers though. Not in universities, not in community colleges and not even in high schools. Brian Scarbeau has been blogging about his plans for an XNA-based high school computer science course next year. At his post you will find some discussion of scope and sequence as well as information about the resources