So here’s the story about how Carl and I, ended up in Silicon Valley for 3 weeks last month, at a start-up games company in the valley.
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).
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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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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