XNA Essentials

Creating a Selection Wheel in XNA

This tutorial will describe the process where you create a selection wheel to be used with a Gamepad controller. This will allow you to create conversation wheels, power wheels, weapon wheels, command wheels, etc in your games. Note this demo requires...

Published 14 Jul 2011 12:10 PM by Chad Carter

Filed under: XNA, Education, Tutorial, App Hub

Windows Phone 7 Developer Sweepstakes end June 30th, 2011

If you are almost done with your Windows Phone 7 App or Game, you may want to put a little extra effort into finishing it up and get it certified so you can beat the deadline. Microsoft’s fiscal year ends June 30th and so do this promotion: Use Code:...

Published 28 Jun 2011 2:54 AM by Chad Carter

Filed under: WP7

Shake that Camera

I was browsing the educational catalog on the App Hub and I saw something that I had missed previously. I wanted to point it out and also point out that if you haven’t been to the educational catalog section in a while, you should go browse it for...

Published 26 Apr 2011 11:40 PM by Chad Carter

Filed under: XNA, Tutorial, WP7, App Hub

Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild talk on HLSL

On March 9th I was able to give a talk down in Columbia, SC at the Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild . We discussed XNA in general and showed a couple of demos and then dove in and talked about vertex and pixel shaders. We also discussed...

Published 10 Mar 2011 6:25 AM by Chad Carter

Filed under: XNA

Windows Phone 7 Hands On Lab–Tombstoning

At my local .NET User Group, Triad Developers Guild , I was able to give a talk on WP7. Usually the sessions are lecture style, but I tried to do a hands on lab. Unfortunately, not many folks brought their laptops so for some it was still...

Published 17 Feb 2011 11:21 PM by Chad Carter

Filed under: XNA, User Group, WP7

Using the Built In Dual Texture Effect in Game Studio 4.0

Since XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 (later the Express was removed from the name) we have had the built-in BasicEffect. This has allowed developers to create games without actually needing to learn HLSL. HLSL is awesome, so I’d highly encourage...

Published 27 Jan 2011 2:10 AM by Chad Carter

Filed under: XNA, Tutorial

Running a Game in Full Screen in Windows Phone 7

If you create a game in Windows Phone 7 using XNA you may not want the Application Bar to be displayed. You can hide that status bar in Windows Phone 7 by setting the GraphicsDeviceManager.IsFullScreen property to true. The default is false...

Published 14 Dec 2010 9:41 PM by Chad Carter

Filed under: XNA, Tutorial, WP7

SIEGECon Talk on Xbox 360 Programming with XNA

I’ll be blogging about the SIEGE Conference on my personal blog soon, but I did want to at least put up my PowerPoint presentation of the talk I gave this past Saturday. I received a lot of good feedback. It was a challenge getting to demo the 360 since...

Published 6 Oct 2010 6:32 AM by Chad Carter

Filed under: XNA, Download, XBLIG, Code Camp

XNA Game Studio 4.0

On September 16th, the XNA Framework team will be releasing XNA Game Studio 4.0. While games created for the Xbox 360 will still be based on XNA Game Studio 3.1 for the near future, the team is also releasing a beta version of the new Connect tool...

Published 13 Sep 2010 10:22 AM by Chad Carter

Filed under: XNA, WP7

CodeStock 2010 Presentations

This was the first year I had attended CodeStock. It was an excellent conference. I had two sessions – XNA Crash Course and Artificial Intelligence . Hit the links to download the slides. As with most of my talks there isn’t a lot to the slides as most...

Published 7 Jul 2010 6:18 AM by Chad Carter

Filed under: XNA, User Group, Code Camp

CodeStock 2010 for Developers, IT Pros and Entrepreneurs

I’ll be speaking at CodeStock in Knoxville, TN on June 25th and 26th. I have two sessions I’ll be presenting: XNA Crash Course Artificial Intelligence I was pleased and very surprised to see that my Artificial Intelligence talk was voted as number...

Published 22 Jun 2010 11:17 AM by Chad Carter

Filed under: XNA, User Group

Getting Started with XNA Game Studio 3 Hands On Lab

This is a lab I originally created for the Carolina Code Camp . The lab covers two main items: Platformer Starter Kit Creating the Platformer Starter Kit Compiling and Running Platformer Modifying Level 1 Indeterminate Progress Bar XNA Framework 2D Basics...

Published 12 Oct 2009 8:00 AM by Chad Carter

Filed under: Book, XNA, Tutorial, Code Camp

Making Money by Making Games with XNA

I’ve done this presentation a couple of times so far. The PowerPoint presentation without the actual talk doesn’t mean too much by itself, but I have included it as is for folks to refer back to that attended the talks. Everyone can feel free to download...

Published 12 Oct 2009 7:00 AM by Chad Carter

Filed under: XNA, XBLCG, XBLIG, User Group, Code Camp

The Kewlniss Func

Michael Neel (aka @ViNull ) interviewed me at the Raleigh Code Camp back in September for his Feel The Func podcast . He edited a little bit, but it is still almost 2 hours in length. If you are interested in listening to us chat about the game he is...

Published 8 Oct 2009 9:20 PM by Chad Carter

Filed under: Book, XNA, Code Camp

Carolina Code Camp – 10/10/09

If you are within driving distance of Charlotte, North Carolina you should really take the time to come to the code camp this Saturday, October 10th, 2009. There are going to be many excellent sessions . I’ll be speaking during two time slots, but it...

Published 7 Oct 2009 10:00 PM by Chad Carter

Filed under: Networking, User Group, Code Camp

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