XNA Essentials

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

Zune HD Scribble Test – Source Code

I did a talk yesterday at the Raleigh Code Camp . It went well I think. If anyone was at the talk and would like to give me feedback, feel free. The only way I’ll get better is if I know how effective / non effective the talk was. It is always interesting...

Published 20 Sep 2009 11:51 PM by Chad Carter

Filed under: XNA, Zune, Download, Tutorial, Code Camp

Raleigh Code Camp 2009 – 9/19/09

If you are within driving distance of Raleigh, North Carolina you should really take the time to come to the code camp this Saturday, September 19th, 2009. There will be some excellent sessions like: Building Composite Applications with Silverlight 3...

Published 16 Sep 2009 10:04 PM by Chad Carter

Filed under: Networking, User Group, Code Camp

Microsoft MVP Awarded July 1st

I’m pretty late to be announcing this. I can’t believe it has already been two months since I’ve received the award, but on July 1st, 2009 I received the Microsoft MVP Award in the area of XNA/DirectX. I’m honored to have been awarded this. The main reason...

Published 1 Sep 2009 9:25 AM by Chad Carter

Filed under: Web Site, Book, User Group, Code Camp, MVP

Raleigh Code Camp – September 19th, 2009

If you are near the Raleigh, NC area on September 19th, 2009 you should really drop by the free Code Camp . If you have never been to a code camp, it is an event put on by a local user group. The events are free to the folks that attend. The folks that...

Published 31 Aug 2009 9:00 PM by Chad Carter

Filed under: XNA, User Group, Code Camp

Dream Build Play 2009 Challenge Submissions Due Today

Make sure that you get your XNA Game Studio 3.1 game submitted to the contest today. Show Microsoft what you have been working on for the last 4 months or more. Grand prize is $40,000. Do not wait until the last moment to try and upload your game. Head...

Published 6 Aug 2009 9:38 AM by Chad Carter

Filed under: XNA, Dream Build Play, Forum

Advanced Debugging Tutorial – Part Two

In the first tutorial we talked about some of the advanced debugging techniques. In this tutorial we will take it a step further and create a debugger visualizer. When we look at data while debugging, sometimes the default representation isn’t quite...

Published 27 Jul 2009 11:11 AM by Chad Carter

Filed under: XNA, Tutorial, Creators Club, debug

Xbox LIVE Indie Games

It is official! Xbox LIVE Community Games is now Xbox LIVE Indie Games. The name change will be reflected on xbox.com and Xbox LIVE Marketplace later this summer. The name change isn’t the only thing happening. The prices options for the games are being...

Published 23 Jul 2009 11:05 PM by Chad Carter

Filed under: XNA, Creators Club, XBLIG

XNA Game Studio 3.1 Avatar Tutorial

Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.1 was released today and as a result I had to get my hands dirty with the avatars. I've been waiting on this since August of last year when I heard about NXE and went to GameFest where I saw how the native Xbox developers...

Published 11 Jun 2009 11:58 PM by Chad Carter

Filed under: XNA, Tutorial, Avatar

XNA Game Studio 3.1 is Released

XNA Game Studio 3.1 includes many cool features. They could have gotten away with a major version number in my opinion. It includes things such as Avatar Support Xbox LIVE Party Support Video Playback Changes to the Audio API Content Pipeline Enhancements...

Published 11 Jun 2009 10:15 AM by Chad Carter

Advanced Debugging Tutorial - Part One

In order to make games or any application these days it really helps to understand how the debugger works in your IDE. Since this site is all about XNA and specifically XNA Game Studio and the XNA Framework our IDE of choice is Visual Studio / Visual...

Published 6 May 2009 7:17 PM by Chad Carter

Filed under: XNA, Tutorial, debug

XNA Essentials Web Site Upgraded - Hello Real Forums

I finally was able to spend some time this weekend to give this website the attention it deserved. I have installed Community Server 2008.5 SP2 and am now running the site with that. I have configured the site to only utilize a single blog. The biggest...

Published 3 May 2009 8:29 PM by Chad Carter

Filed under: Web Site, Forum, community server

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