Category Archives: game programming

Manders: A helper class to show video “safe areas”

Posted on November 29, 2006 by proj

This article explains some details on getting your project setup to render to ‘safe’ areas of the screen. This will be more important if you want your game to work on a variety of different TV setups.

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Experiences upgrading to XNA Beta 2

Posted on November 23, 2006 by proj

I decided to take some notes while I ported my test project to beta 2: First off 62 build errors. Class documentation is still sparse. Things are worse now however as XNA is moving further from DX standards, you can’t … Continue reading →

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The goings on as of late

Posted on October 31, 2006 by proj

I’ve found a little time here and there for more XNA coding. I cleaned up a lot of the UI code, there are a number of nice usable components now, Menu, ListBox and Tweaker. Menus can be added to the … Continue reading →

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XNA BMFont Renderer, Logo and Some Screens

Posted on October 24, 2006 by proj

I’ll start this post with some XNA dev screenshots: When I was very young I did some coding in logo on an apple II. It has a very simple syntax and was fun to experiment with, a little turtle moved … Continue reading →

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3DS Model Loader Sample Updated

Posted on October 10, 2006 by proj

I updated the sample for the 3DS Loader. It now includes all the project files you need and a sample shader that can handle the basic materials in the sample model. You can build the application and it will show … Continue reading →

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XNA 3DS Model Loader

Posted on October 8, 2006 by proj

Took me some time to get around to posting this but I thought it would be nice to get this to anyone who needs it. The content pipeline will remove the need to use this as you can use the … Continue reading →

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Holdem: Bug fixing career mode, UI tweaks

Posted on September 29, 2006 by proj

I fixed a bunch of bugs in holdem last night. I got career mode working really well, both continue career and new career. I moved a bunch of the player game save logic out into it’s own class called ‘SaveData’. … Continue reading →

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XNA Shmup Update

Posted on September 28, 2006 by proj

More progress as of late on the xna based shmup concept. All of the gameplay mentioned in the previous post has been implemented. Some of it is not quite ‘fun’ yet. The attack pod makes things entirely too one-sided and … Continue reading →

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XNA Shmup

Posted on September 23, 2006 by proj

So for anyone who cares and hasn’t heard me rant about what I wanted to do with the XNA stuff I’ll just explain it now. Ryan inspired me to go in the direction of a shmup, I have wanted to … Continue reading →

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XNA: Yes I’m a Bit Addicted Now

Posted on September 23, 2006 by proj

This stuff is really nice. I’m actually a bit addicted to the whole thing. I finally got some shader issues sorted out. I have a few very basic shaders right now, one that renders color coded normals for debugging purposes … Continue reading →

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