Game Camp News

november 2008 - Posts

  • Frogger game tutorial

    A teacher over at NITH here in Norway; Jan Kasper Martinsen, has created a tutorial series (unfortunately only in Norwegian) for creating a frogger game.

    The tutorial is for creating the game in .net compact framework and takes on the basics of graphics programming.

    If you want to learn more about basic graphics programming and games programming have a look at his tutorial series here.
    Posted nov 19 2008, 08:15 by Einar Ingebrigtsen with no comments

  • Xna 3.0 is out

    Finally the news of Xna 3.0 struck us at Game Camp as well. Its been a couple of weeks since the release of Xna 3.0. Anyhow, he Xna team delivers, again. Finally, the release of version 3.0 of Xna is out. A lot of new features is included in this release. To mention a few:

    * Visual Studio Integration : Support for C# 3.0, LINQ
    * Try before you buy: You can allow your customers to try your game before they buy it
    * Invitations: You can programatically allow players to invite friends to join their game
    * In addition Windows and Xbox 360, there is now Zune support (when will Europe get this?)
    * OneClick deployment of Windows Games

    If you want to get started with Xna 3.0, start at this location.

    For more details on the release of Xna 3.0 go here.


    Posted nov 19 2008, 08:12 by Einar Ingebrigtsen with no comments