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WP7 Game “Astro Bacon”

Ever wanted to fling asteroids at space pigs? Well, thanks to Astro Bacon, now you can!

 

Hi all, I’m back and I’ve got a shiny new game to announce. Astro Bacon is a side-scrolling space shooter for windows phone 7 which I have been working on since the end of Summer. The game is now available from the marketplace at: http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=33b0ffdb-1c79-4732-879c-0ff1a5223191 for €0.99. Or if you don’t mind an annoying ad banner in your way you can get it free here: http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=f761a51e-6083-4d61-a458-7a3ce93c4e0c (The ad really does limit screen space though).

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WP7 Game Development : A Beginners Guide (XML Specified Content)

Hello again. I am here today to talk about setting up objects in XNA using data read from .XML files. There are a number of ways to achieve this. One of the most popular is to use the built in XML serializer. I will be talking about this in one of my next articles. Today I am going to show you how to use the Content Pipeline to load object properties from an XML file.
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Windows Phone 7 Game Development: A Beginner’s Guide (Accelerometer)

Hello all. Keith here again, as promised. Bounce is now available, for free, on Zune marketplace. The current version contains some game-play bugs but an update will fix these in the next few days.

 

This is to be my first article on common problems faced by developers new to WP7. I am by no means an expert but I found that most of the articles and posts relating to the topics I will cover weren’t coherent or were too advanced for a developer new to WP7.
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Windows Phone 7 Game: Bounce

Hello to the Flax community. My name is Keith Cully. I am a student/game developer on the same computer games course as Ciarán and Carl. I was also the other part of the team for the A.C.M. programming contest at U.C.C.
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A Look Back At My First Proper Game – C# Guitar Hero Clone

So, those of you who read my last post Diary of an Irish Student Game Developer you will know that I am currently building a portfolio website to frame some of my past and current game development projects like College Projects – C++ OpenGL & OGRE 3D, as in 5 months time I will be seeking a 6 month internship in the Games Industry. Continue reading ‘A Look Back At My First Proper Game – C# Guitar Hero Clone’

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Windows Phone 7 Game Development

Hello, my name is James Kelly. This is my first post for Flax. I’m a student in IT Carlow, doing the games development course with Ciarán and Carl. I’m here to talk about Windows Phone 7, and my experience developing for it.

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GNOME Do Ubuntu 10.04 crashes on login

If you’re like me and use GNOME Do in dock mode and have it start on login in Ubuntu 10.04 you’ve probably noticed that it seems to crash when you login. After a long while putting it off I eventually went in search of a solution. Continue reading ‘GNOME Do Ubuntu 10.04 crashes on login’