XNA News


  • Creating a Role Playing Game With XNA 3.0: New RPG Tutorial!
    by Jamie McMahon (Creating a Role Playing Game With XNA 3.0) at 11/24/2009 5:18:01 AM

    Well, I've added in the next tutorial on creating a role playing game with XNA 3.0 to my web site. In this tutorial I did a little refactoring because something has been bothering me for a while now. I've found that having an action ...

  • Serious Games Source: 'Games for Learning Institute Announces ...
    by unknown (Serious Games Source News) at 11/23/2009 7:08:01 PM

    The Games for Learning Institute, a joint project of Microsoft Research and a consortium of universities in the United States, announced a Game Design Challenge to encourage the creation of educational minigames for Microsoft's XNA Game ...

  • Games for Learning Institute Announces $2000 Prize in XNA Design ...
    by Danny Cowan (Game Career Guide News) at 11/23/2009 5:00:01 AM

    Games for Learning Institute Announces $2000 Prize in XNA Design Contest. [11.23.09]; The Games for Learning Institute, a joint project of Microsoft Research and a consortium of universities in the United States, announced a Game Design ...

  • REDMOND Software Development Engineer - XNA Developer Connection ...
    by unknown (Microsoft - XNA Developer Jobs) at 11/22/2009 1:14:43 AM

    REDMOND Software Development Engineer - XNA Developer Connection (XDC) Job - WA, 98052.

  • REDMOND Test Architect - Xbox LIVE / XNA Publishing Platform Job ...
    by unknown (Microsoft - XNA Developer Jobs) at 11/22/2009 1:14:43 AM

    As the test architect for the XNA Publishing Platform team, we want you to ensure that we are identifying, building, and signing off against the right problems and solutions to meet our customers' needs. This will require significant ...

  • XNA DebugOverlay Utility
    by shyam (Shyam Guthikonda) at 11/21/2009 4:20:38 AM

    The DebugOverlay utility is a class that I've been using in my XNA projects for a while. It allows me to draw visualization objects from anywhere in my application – even in separate threads. Some areas where I have used this utility ...

  • XNA Creators Club Online - indie developer survey
    by unknown (XNA Creators Club - News List) at 11/20/2009 2:39:45 AM

    The first in this series is “Get to Know the Developer”; this will help us understand who you are as a game developer, and what resources on XNA Creators Club Online you benefit from most. Please take a moment to complete this ...

  • XNA Creators Club Online - introducing the idn team
    by unknown (XNA Creators Club - News List) at 11/20/2009 2:39:45 AM

    This is an opportunity for our Creators to attend virtual presentations/demos with product team members from the XNA team, and ask all your burning questions. It's a great opportunity to meet some of the key players that bring XNA Game ...

  • Computers Glitch On Day Of XNA's First Orlando Flight - Project ...
    by unknown (4029TV.com - Local News) at 11/19/2009 11:17:23 PM

    HIGHFILL, Ark. -- Flights were back on track Thursday evening after a major monkey wrench was thrown into air travel across the nation Thursday morning. Thursday, November 19, 2009.

  • MSDN Blog Postings » Blog Archive » Creating Games with XNA® Game ...
    by unknown (MSDN Blog Postings) at 11/19/2009 12:19:23 PM

    Students will develop computer science knowledge and skills by learning how to program in C# using the Microsoft® XNA Game framework and Visual Studio® platform to create games. XNAGame Studio 3.0 enables hobbyists, academics, ...

  • Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred ...
    by Alfred Thompson (Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson) at 11/19/2009 11:37:01 AM

    New High School Computer Science Course Creating Games with XNA ® Game Studio and C# Fall 2009 Recruit students to your schools' computer science classes by adding a new game development course! Students will develop computer science ...

  • XNA To Seek Bids For Concourse Expansion - Local News Story - KHBS ...
    by unknown (4029TV.com - Local News) at 11/19/2009 5:53:47 AM

    HIGHFILL, Ark. -- A local airport is one step closer to getting a big expansion. Wednesday, November 18, 2009.

  • XNA Role Playing Game (RPG) Starter Kit « Jasper Blog
    by jasper22 (Jasper Blog) at 11/18/2009 9:43:19 AM

    XNA Role Playing Game (RPG) Starter Kit. Charlie talks about the tile engine and the quest engine. The tile engine supports several layers to create a complex final level. The first layer allows you to define a basic landscape or the ...

  • Zune HD Networking, TCP/IP, not Ad hoc - XNA Community Forums
    by lilj8069 (Networking) at 11/18/2009 6:54:15 AM

    I know that this may be out in left field but microsoft somehow allowed themselves to run a browser on the Zune HD, how can programmers write apps that allow us to utilize TCP/IP so we're not constrained by the XNA net framework? ...

  • Microsoft, Enterbrain Looking For New XNA Games // Siliconera
    by Spencer (Siliconera) at 11/17/2009 8:33:09 PM

    Microsoft and Enterbrain, the company that publishes Famitsu, are holding a contest for XNA developers where 3600000 yen ($40000) in cash prizes will be awarded.

  • Recommended C# - XNA Game Software - Game Development
    by ljianyih (DaniWeb IT Discussion Community) at 11/17/2009 5:16:31 PM

    For any beginners who are interestd in making games, you can try out the xna game development. You dont need to have any programming experience and within a short time, you can create an amazing game. You can search in you tube for the ...

  • A Note About Game Difficulty in XNA Games | Game Programming and ...
    by John Wordsworth (Game Programming and Design Blog) at 11/17/2009 11:16:43 AM

    After the second round of playtesting for Ikaroids, we found that a number of comments were coming back to us stating that the game was rather difficult.

  • Hexar Decimal: HexShooter: An XNA 2D Tutorial Upgrade
    by Hexar Anderson (Hexar Decimal) at 11/16/2009 6:00:01 PM

    XNA Game Studio, if you haven't heard of it, is an integrated development environment for the development of Windows and Xbox 360 games using either C# Express 2008 or Visual Studio 2008. It is essentially a Visual Studio Package which ...

  • XNA Game Software Contest by Wireless Watch Japan
    by unknown (Wireless Watch Japan) at 11/16/2009 5:31:47 PM

    Microsoft has announced a game developers contest challenging Japanese creators to submit concepts destined for Xbox 360 & WiMo devices [JPN]

  • REDMOND Lead UX Designer - XNA Job - WA, 98052
    by unknown (Microsoft - XNA Developer Jobs) at 11/16/2009 2:52:49 AM

    The XNA Publishing Platform team is looking for a Lead User Experience Designers who will research, architect, and design interactive experiences for web, software and device-based interfaces. We are looking for someone who is ...

  • REDMOND Sr. Software Development Engineer - XNA Developers ...
    by unknown (Microsoft - XNA Developer Jobs) at 11/16/2009 2:52:49 AM

    REDMOND Sr. Software Development Engineer - XNA Developers Connection (XDC) Job - WA, 98052.

  • REDMOND Sr. Software Development Engineer - Xbox LIVE / XNA ...
    by unknown (Microsoft - XNA Developer Jobs) at 11/16/2009 2:52:49 AM

    REDMOND Sr. Software Development Engineer - Xbox LIVE / XNA Publishing Platform Job - WA, 98052.

  • How to test multiplayer network game locally? - XNA Community Forums
    by XNAMike (Networking) at 11/11/2009 9:00:01 AM

    I've got a paid XNA creators club membership. The other developer has a Windows Live ID and a gamer tag. When we try to launch the Client/Server example on two machines on the local network we get an error message stating that no game ...

  • Shawn Hargreaves Blog : Premultiplied alpha in XNA Game Studio
    by ShawnHargreaves (Shawn Hargreaves Blog) at 11/11/2009 4:24:37 AM

    It is possible to use premultiplied alpha with XNA Game Studio, but the bad news is we don't do much to help you with it. Why not? Yeah . Our bad. In fact one of my biggest regrets about the design of the XNA Framework is that we didn't ...

  • Learning XNA 3.0 - O'Reilly Media
    by Aaron Reed (O'Reilly News) at 11/25/2008 9:00:01 AM

    Do you have what it takes to become a game developer? With this hands-on book, you'll learn how to develop computer games with Microsoft's XNA 3.0 framework -- not just for your PC, but for Xbox 360 and the Microsoft Zune as well.


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