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Monday, February 04, 2008 7:29 AM

Getting up with XNA GS 2.0 [UPDATED]

Since last year's speech with Vicente (which was in may!), I've been very off from XNA . I have installed XNA GS 2.0 but still haven't played with it :/ But it is never too late, so I'm digging deep into both the new features ( networking...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:08 PM

Incoming events

On the following months I'm having some movement, both assisting to events and/or participating in them: 22-24 February - <mind camp/> A special, closed event that will be held on Madrid over a complete weekend. One hint, the poster: 7 March...
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Monday, December 24, 2007 5:34 PM

Reading pending RSS feeds... Game development related

Today I'm finishing reading the latest pending RSS feeds, and found some interesting game development related posts/articles. Here they are just in case you wanna read something about game dev today: Raph Koster's "do levels suck?" ...
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Sunday, October 21, 2007 6:52 PM

Gamefest 2007 presentations fully available

After some delays we finally can download the full archive of presentations from the XNA Gamefest 2007 Microsoft event. There are a lot of them, covering all aspects of XBox 360, Windows and XNA development, so you should start downloading them right...
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007 8:43 PM

Upgrading my home machine network

It's time to spend some money and upgrade my home machines! As I love playing games and watching movies, I've bought a new gaming PC (a real monster). Also, I'm getting a new laptop for development (including JADE and XNA development ;) and...
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Friday, June 01, 2007 11:20 PM

XNA Particle System sources uploaded

Just a small post. Vicente and I have finished commenting the code of our small XNA Particle Engine we built for the UPSAM speech we gave about XNA and the content pipeline . The code is not "production quality" and some minor things should...
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Saturday, May 12, 2007 1:56 AM

Developing an XNA Particle System [UPDATED]

Today my friend Vicente and I gave a small speech at the UPSAM about XNA . Precisely, we presented a small particle engine done into a GameComponent, to acomplish some goals: Showing how clean and easy is to use GameComponents (actually we use one Camera...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:33 PM

XNA & XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 Refresh

Yesterday I finally installed XNA Game Studio under Vista... and today comes the 1.0 Refresh. Someone did it on purpose :D Anyway, here it is (at last), Windows Vista fully supported, 3D Audio and sharing of binaries (currently just between developers...
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Saturday, March 24, 2007 6:06 AM

An excellent article about Windows Vista

I've finished reading an interesting article about Windows Vista , interesting because is oriented for technical people (IT, developers and advanced users). It's the first article of three that will be published, but gives a good overview of some of the...
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:34 AM

GDC2007: Fantastic XNA news!

Today's been the "XNA day" at the GDC 2007 , and as expected there are a lot of fantastic news: Next revision of XNA will feature things like Windows Vista Support (at last!), XACT 3D (3D audio!), bitmap fonts, volume textures, icons for the games and...
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Monday, March 05, 2007 9:26 AM

XNA Creators Club Online

The online community site for XNA Creators Club is finally online ! Apart from the content that will be available for the premium club members, the website contains this for everyone who registers: Tutorials and video tutorials Some samples, like skinning...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:00 AM

Slides and sources of my Managed DirectX and XNA speeches uploaded

I've uploaded to the Downloads section all the speeches I've given about Managed DirectX and XNA. I hope to increase the number soon ;)
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Monday, February 26, 2007 7:50 AM

XNA: Skeletal Bone Animation & Skinning with Collada models article

Benjamin Nitschke has posted a fantastic XNA tutorial about skeletal bone animation and skinning using Collada models, which allow for complex animations exported as XML that DirectX .X files can't handle. As I haven't read all yet (it's quite large ...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:18 AM

Dream.Build.Play Competition launched!

A Warm-Up challenge has been posted to the Dream.Build.Play competition website. Contestants have to build a game based on the Spacewar starter kit (although you can use your own code from scratch, it must be related to it). Using Torque X toolset is...
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Sunday, February 11, 2007 10:49 AM

Dream.Build.Play - XNA Competition

What's this? try www.dreambuildplay.com Want a bit more of info? Read what Dave Mitchell wrote about it Those are the things I hate not having enough time for :_(
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