Category Archives: xna

XNA Random Terrain Generation Sample Code

Posted on July 19, 2007 by proj

I recently received a comment asking for details on the terrain generation algorithm I used in my XNA shoot ‘em up proof of concept. Here’s my edited reply and sample code for anyone interested. It’s not very complex and it … Continue reading →

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Simple XNA BMFont loading/render code

Posted on March 28, 2007 by proj

XNA doesn’t yet have good support for text render (still?) so since I just got a request for my font rendering code I put some short comments in the header. I think there are other examples of this but this … Continue reading →

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Quick Update

Posted on February 2, 2007 by proj

So I’ve been in Austin since Jan 15th now and we’re getting settled pretty quickly. The movement relocation package was good, it took a whole lot of stress of of us and let me basically just hit the ground running … Continue reading →

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Two new game music track sketches

Posted on January 10, 2007 by proj

I haven’t posted music in a long time but I have been quietly working on some tracks. Especially lately as I’m preparing some music and sound effects for a few side projects. So here are a few tracks that are … Continue reading →

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XNA RPG: Bug fixes and gameplay tweaks

Posted on December 1, 2006 by proj

I finally got around to dumping all of the equipment, monsters and items into a giant spreadsheet. Mind you, this project was written over the span of a few days so there is intentionally very little config files here. The … Continue reading →

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XNA RPG: Underground Heros

Posted on November 30, 2006 by proj

Just before the thanksgiving weekend I was talking to my friend/fellow coder/work associate Massimo and he tells me that he wants to write this ‘simple’ RPG and having it running before Sunday. Sounds impossible but I told him I want … Continue reading →

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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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