februar 2008 - Posts

• XNA 3.0 in 2008

  Microsoft has announced that they will offer a preview release of XNA 3.0 in spring of 2008 timeframe with a final release scheduled for the 2008 holiday season. XNA 3.0 will contain give the developers the ability to create content for Zune. Read more over at the XNA teams blog. Posted feb 22 2008, 02:16 by Einar Ingebrigtsen with no comments

• Xbox LIVE Community Games (XNA on XBL!)

  During the GDC08 (Game Developer Conference) Microsoft announced the availability of Xbox LIVE Community Games, which is games that is developed and published by the community (meaning you and me). Turn on your Xbox 360 and do the following steps to play your favorite Dream Build Play contents games like Little Gamers and Dishwasher.   Either follow this short version, or click the link below to read a longer explanation on how to download these games:   1. Marketplace -> Game Store -> All Games -> XNA Creators Club Game Launcher 2. Games Blade -> Games Library -> My Games -> XNA Creators Club -> Press the Yellow Y button!   (it's very hard to notice that you can actually press the Y button to start downloading XNA games on Xbox Live, but please enjoy yourself with free XNA games on your big screen TV or projector)   Long description: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/events/gdc2008/xna/howtoxna.htm   Announcement on the XNA blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2008/02/20/announcing-xbox-live-community-games.aspx Posted feb 21 2008, 11:07 by CareBear with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Dream-Build-Play, XNA, XNA Creators Club

• Game Camp on tour

  This year Game Camp will be on tour and host several events. On the 26th of february (next week), we've been asked to have a small session at NNUG (Norwegian .Net User Group) in Oslo. If you want to come and listen to a fast introduction to XNA and you happen to be in the neighbourhood, stop by the event page and register. Posted feb 20 2008, 10:08 by Einar Ingebrigtsen with no comments

• XNA Creators Club + Students = Free

  Microsoft has pushed the envelope and made XNA Creators Club free for students. In addition they've also made Visual Studio free for students as well, and we're not talking about the express edition but the fill professional edition.  On top of this, they've also included the Expression Studio designer tools, SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition and Windows Server Standard Edition Read the press release : http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/feb08/02-18GSDPR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases Posted feb 20 2008, 09:31 by Einar Ingebrigtsen with no comments

• First PC XNA Title

  One of the things people often say to me when I talk about XNA is that they aren't convinced that it could be used to create a proper title due to speed issues running .net and such. The guys at Brain Seal Ltd. has proven differently by creating a their Masters of Belial in XNA. By the looks of it, it sure looks nice as well. The game will enter a closed beta stage in early march, 2008. And then hit the market in the 1st half of 2008. Looking forward to seeing this and more games being built upon XNA. Posted feb 19 2008, 07:43 by Einar Ingebrigtsen with no comments

• Game Camp becomes an INETA organization

  In december 2007, Game Camp applied to become a registered user group at INETA.org. Today we've learned from the Norwegian chief in charge of NNUG, Tor Einar Solli that we have been accepted as a user group at INETA. INETA is short for International .NET Association and serves as an umbrella organization for a lot of usergroups focused on .net technologies. Thanks to great sponsors, INETA is able to provide usergroups such as Game Camp with services such as speakers, giveaways and competitions/challenges with great prizes. We are in the midst of planning two Game Camp events this year and the speakers from INETA is something we're looking into. Posted feb 11 2008, 09:29 by Einar Ingebrigtsen with no comments

• Game Camp - new design, layout and structure

  Welcome to the version 1.0 of our new design. Our frontpage now looks a bit different and you're probably wondering where the tutorials, photos and download sections are. They are all now located under the resources section. Besides this everything should be were you found it before. We hope the new design is more soothing and will motivate you to use the site more. :) Posted feb 11 2008, 07:43 by Einar Ingebrigtsen with no comments

• Catalin Zima - XNA and HLSL blog

  Catalin Zima just moved his blog and will be doing one tutorial pr. month the next year. He already has a couple up on his blog. Have a look at Catalin Zimas Blog. Posted feb 10 2008, 05:16 by Einar Ingebrigtsen with no comments

• Xna Game Studio 2.0 Books

  After a bit of searching on Amazon.com, I found out that there were no XNA books targetting XNA GS 2.0. But there were three books due in late february that could be of interest for us. I'll list them in no particular order: 1. Essential XNA 2.0 Game Programming (Paperback) by Jim Perry (Author), Allen Sherrod (Author) (Paperback - Feb 25, 2008) 2.  Microsoft® XNA Game Studio 2.0: Learn Programming Now! (Paperback) by Rob S. Miles (Author) (Paperback - Feb 23, 2008) 3.  Professional XNA Programming: Building Games for Xbox 360 and Windows with XNA Game Studio 2.0 by Benjamin Nitschke (Paperback - Feb 26, 2008) Posted feb 09 2008, 07:25 by raymond with no comments