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Managed Games? Of course!
You may remember me talking about Koios Works before. They wrote one of the first retail games using Managed DirectX. They have an entirely new 3D game out now called Panzer Command: Operation Winterstorm Not only are they still using Managed DirectX Read More...
Posted 01 September 06 12:28 by tmiller | 5 Comments   
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Have you seen the XNA Team Blog?
In one of my posts yesterday I linked to it , but it is a good blog to read. I really enjoyed the little bit of extra information from Boyd in today's post . Read More...
Posted 14 August 06 06:20 by tmiller | 1 Comments   
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So you wanna be a game developer?
(I'm gonna copy/paste since i'm in a lazy mood) Are you a hobby, casual or Indie game developer? If so, we're looking for participants in a usability study which will help us build better products and technologies to help serve your needs in this area. Read More...
Posted 13 April 06 01:33 by tmiller | 6 Comments   
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According to Amazon, I had a new book come out this week!
If the title didn't give it away, I regret to inform you that I didn't. I'm sure everyone is aware that a long time ago I had signed up for writing a 3rd book.. A more "advanced" game programming book that took an already completed game I had written, Read More...
Posted 12 April 06 01:14 by tmiller | 6 Comments   
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Managed DirectX 2.0, Xna and Me...
One of the Program Managers for the Xna Framework recently started his first blog . Unless you have the main RSS feed of this site subscribed, you probably didn't notice his first post , which talks about a lot. You may have also seen the 'official' press Read More...
Posted 20 March 06 05:02 by tmiller | 29 Comments   
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Busy busy busy!!
Lots of changes been going on over here recently which have been keeping me quite busy (well, more busy than usual). I've recently switched groups over to the Xbox team (and the XNA team specifically), and I'm quite excited about the stuff we're working Read More...
Posted 14 March 06 11:23 by tmiller | 23 Comments   
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TrayGames..
Joe from TrayGames contacted me earlier and apparently they have a public beta available now. You can read more about it on Zman's site , or here . Read More...
Posted 09 March 06 03:04 by tmiller | 5 Comments   
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Koios Works, at it again..
So amongst the other mails I got today, i also got one from Marshall Belew from Koiois Works . You may remember them from my posts way back since they were one of the first commercial MDX games out. I'm sure you can guess that since i'm blogging about Read More...
Posted 22 February 06 02:13 by tmiller | 3 Comments   
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More Academia using MDX?
I got an email today from "Matthias" who did some MDX work last semester at the University of Technology in Vienna, Austria.. The screenshots in the link he gave me look quite nice (apparently they took 2nd place in this years competition).. It seems Read More...
Posted 22 February 06 01:59 by tmiller | 0 Comments   
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February 2006 SDK Available..
I'm always the last person to announce these things , but.. Hey.. Did you hear? The February SDK is out! While the MDX2 assembly is still in beta form for this release, it's still pretty exciting for me currently. The time in which it will be in release Read More...
Posted 12 February 06 09:41 by tmiller | 17 Comments   
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Haddd 3D
Rather than just copy and paste the stuff that ZMan already wrote, i'll just link directly to his post . Read More...
Posted 01 February 06 02:03 by tmiller | 2 Comments   
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Book Source Code..
I think I blogged about this once before. If I did, I don't remember when and can't find it. Since there have been a number of questions on the topic though, I'll post this again, even if it is a duplicate. ZMan has already done the 'work' for getting Read More...
Posted 20 January 06 02:05 by tmiller | 9 Comments   
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Managed DirectX - It's not just games..
So here at Microsoft, we have this thing called a 'buddy program' which you can read more about at http://msdn.microsoft.com/isv/isvbuddy/ . I'm signed up for this program and have a 'buddy' who works for a company (I assume in Germany) doing Managed Read More...
Posted 18 January 06 02:30 by tmiller | 11 Comments   
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MDXInfo
Just was shown a new website dedicated to MDX Info, called (strangely enough) http://www.mdxinfo.com/ New, but looks like a nice little start. Read More...
Posted 17 January 06 05:36 by tmiller | 0 Comments   
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Probably not quite what he intended..
I got an email recently from Phil Vaira about a new RPG he was working on.. So, like I normally do, I went and checked out the link. What I found though was a new post detailing his 'advice' on native DX vs Managed DX. Naturally, I read that as well. Read More...
Posted 27 December 05 04:13 by tmiller | 260 Comments   
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