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Selasa, 25 Januari 2011

XNA Notes 002

This past week (much like every week in the XNA community) was filled with things happening and people doing cool things (and getting noticed for doing cool things!). You can definitely tell there are some Xbox LIVE Indie game developers starting to make some names for themselves. Can’t wait to name drop them at bars. Me- “Oh you played Game X? Yeah, I know the guy that made that. Pretty cool guy.” Yeah, I’ll be THAT guy.

Time Critical XNA News

30 days left to submit XBLIGs made in XNA Game Studio 3.1
- http://blogs.msdn.com/b/xna/archive/2011/01/08/30-days-left-to-submit-xna-gs-3-1-games-to-app-hub.aspx
Jeromy Walsh wants you to know his XNA 4.0 Winter Workshop starting soon, go get signed up! And the forum is now LIVE on GameDev.net
- http://gamedevelopedia.com/
- http://tinyurl.com/4gg2cfv

The XNA Team

Per Nick Gravelyn, Aaron Stebner’s blog post is a must read for icons on Windows Phone
- http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/p/72022/439597.aspx#439597
- http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2010/10/01/10070507.aspx
Shawn Hargreaves writes about Sprite Billboards in a 3D world
- http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnhar/archive/2011/01/12/spritebatch-billboards-in-a-3d-world.aspx

XNA MVPs

Andy “The ZMan” Dunn wants YOU to come to the MVP Summit and run a 5K
- http://www.indiegameguy.com/blogs/zman/archive/2010/12/26/come-to-the-mvp-summit-and-run-a-5k-yes-you.aspx
Jim Perry updates his forum signature just to make it clear that he’s not speaking for Microsoft or giving official information (LOL, thanks Jim, now if only people will take the time to read that...)
- XNA MVP | Please use the Forum Search and read the Forum FAQs | My posts are not official info
- http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/p/70849/439613.aspx#439613

XNA Developers

Robert Boyd (@werezombie) working hard at converting his RPG engine used to make Breath of Death VII and Chtulu Saves the World to XNA 4.0. If you haven’t done the upgrade yet yourself, might be useful to read back through his tweets and recent forum posts to see the problems/solutions he’s encountered.
- http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/p/71834/438099.aspx#438099
- http://www.twitter.com/werezompire
SpynDoctorGames is in the final phase before the release of Your Doodles are Bugged for the PC! Going to be interesting to watch as more XNA game developers explore the PC game market for their games.
- http://twitter.com/SpynDoctorGames/statuses/24503173217521664
- http://www.spyn-doctor.de
@DrMistry shares some details of his next title YoYoYo
- http://www.mstargames.co.uk/mistryblogmain/35-genblog/177-a-new-year-a-new-game-and-maybe-a-new-approach.html
Travis Woodward (@RabidLionGames) has a blog post coming this weekend on Farseer and Mario-like platformer movement.
- http://twitter.com/RabidLionGames/statuses/24992762021548032
- http://www.rabidlion.com/
S4G Interview with Radiangames
- http://n4g.com/news/679492/s4g-interview-with-radiangames
XBLAratings.com interviews Steve Flores (@DragonDivide) developer of Alpha Squad
- http://www.xblaratings.com/developer-qaa/3621-alpha-squad-developer-interview

XBox LIVE Indie Games

If you haven’t been reading the roundups on IndieGames by NaviFairy on GayGamer, you’ve been missing out!
- http://gaygamer.net/2011/01/xbox_indie_review_roundup_1112.html
Armless Octopus posts the Top 20 Games of 2010 Part 1
- http://www.armlessoctopus.com/2011/01/10/top-20-xbox-live-indie-games-of-2010-part-1/
Armless Octopus posts the Top 20 Games of 2010 Part 2
- http://www.armlessoctopus.com/2011/01/12/top-20-xbox-live-indie-games-of-2010-%E2%80%93-part-2/
Xbox LIVE Indie Game Reviews
- http://www.gamemarx.com/
Don’t forget to be following @XboxHornet . That’s a great way to snag free copies of Xbox LIVE Indie Games
- http://twitter.com/XboxHornet/statuses/24471103808208896
- http://www.xboxhornet.com/wordpress/
Xbox LIVE Indie Game Review posts the top 20 Xbox 360 LIVE Indie Games of 2010
- http://www.xbox-360-community-games-reviews.com/top-20-best-xbox-360-live-indie-games-of-2010/
VVGtv to Stream #XBLIG Again! Help out if you can.
- http://vvgtv.com/2011/01/07/vvgtv-to-stream-xblig-again/
Indie Gamer Magazine Issue 14 has a look at the Xbox LIVE Winter Indie Game Uprisiing
- http://www.indiegamemag.com/issue14/

XNA Game Development

Andrew Russell announced and asked for help in his development of ExEn: XNA for iPhone, Android and Silverlight
- http://rockethub.com/projects/752-exen-xna-for-iphone-android-and-silverlight
App Hub forums letting you down? Don’t forget about StackOverflow and the game development specific version gamedev.stackexchange
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/xna
- http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xna
Transmute gets an update from Aaron Foley (@slyprid) and you can now add and visually edit parallax layers to your 2D tile game.
Webcomics Weekly #75 touches on some feelings I’ve seen people try to express (myself included) when talking about game development and what types of games should be released for XBLIG
- http://www.pvponline.com/2011/01/05/webcomics-weekly-75-sour-oats/
Setting up a new PC for XNA development? Here’s a site that helps you quickly build a installer for all the most common applications developers use.
- http://ninite.com/
Fun wew thread on the XNA forums asking XBLIG/XNA developers just what their Top 10 favorite video games of all time are.
- http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/107.aspx
Christopher Hill (@Xalterax) stumbled across an entire community that does nothing but create box art. This is a great potential resource for Xbox LIVE Indie Game developers to get some awesome box art for their games.
- http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/p/46582/441451.aspx#441451
- http://www.vgboxart.com/browse/plat/360/
Don’t forget about the XNA Wiki, fantastic community resource (and roll up those sleeves and contribute already!)
- http://xnawiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

XNA Notes 003

Another week and another whirlwind of wonderful works coming from the XNA Community. I find it crazy just how hard it is to keep up with everything going on and knowing just how big the community has gotten recognizing just how much I’m missing as well. But here are the things I DID manage to catch…

XNA Developers

@Chounard ponders whether he should port sfxr to XNA

http://twitter.com/Chounard/statuses/27029053395439616
And showing just how awesome the XNA commmunity @Chounard DOES (and in a day!)

@Chounard says that along with feedback from the community on xnasfrx he would also like some feedback on Demina, his 2D skeletal animation thingamajig

http://demina.codeplex.com/

Simon (Darkside) Jackson (@DDReaper) gave an XNA session at NxtGenUG Manchester on Wednesday.

http://nxtgenug.net/ViewEvent.aspx?EventID=367

Kris Steele (@kriswd40) is wrapping up his humor filled Trivia Game for XBLIG

http://www.funinfused.com/TriviaOrDie.aspx

XBLIG Developer Interview with Christopher Hill of Zombie Monkey Games

http://vvgtv.com/2011/01/16/xblig-developer-interview-with-christopher-hill-of-zombie-monkey-games/

The current state Zeboyd Games, their decision to release a PC version of their game and their fundraising efforts

Justin Johnson of SindicateX shares what he’s been working on

http://syndicatex.com/projects/whirlygig-building-collision/

Going to GDC? Want to meet up with some fellow XNA developers? Then get in touch and let people know you're going to be there by posting in this thread.

http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/t/72931.aspx

Xbox LIVE Indie Games

Want to get an Xbox LIVE Indie Game mentioned on Joystiq? Now you can!

Somebody needs to start emailing this guy games to play…

http://kotaku.com/5736038/xbox-live-indie-clips-the-charge-is-only-briefly-sexy

Iridium Studios and their game Sequence got noticed and got an article on Kotaku. Congratulations!

Graeme Boyd (@AceyBongos) - Xbox Community Manager for Europe asks “How many of you play Xbox LIVE Indie Games regularly; and how many of you actually use or know how to use XNA?”

http://twitter.com/AceyBongos/statuses/27028395976032256
Definitely a good idea for Xbox LIVE Indie Game developers to look through the replies to that question and get to know what your consumers are saying!

Xbox Indie Games Roundup for January 16th posted on Gamergeddon

http://www.gamergeddon.com/2011/01/16/xbox-indie-games-round-up-january-16th/

Everyone should be reading 8Bit Horse, not only do they cover XBLIGs but they talk about all things 2D. Love that site.

http://8bithorse.blogspot.com/2011/01/astroman-xbl-indie-games.html

XNA Game released for free on Reddit for a limited time only

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/f3vls/im_an_indie_game_author_and_today_im_releasing_my/

@mikebmcl reports The Joystiq 2010 Buyer's Guide on the US dashboard includes an XBLIG section. Go Xbox LIVE Indie Games!

http://twitter.com/mikebmcl/statuses/27422669678845952

Mommy’s Best Games is working on pumping up the difficulty in Explosionade. Read about the progress from Nathan Fouts himself!

http://mommysbest.blogspot.com/2011/01/pump-up-difficulty.html

Jean Snow posts “Just Gimme Indie Games” where he talks about XBLIGs, shock that Microsoft hasn’t pushed the service more (we’re shocked too!) and the one man indie gamed development machine that is Luke Schneider of radianGames

http://snow-mag.com/2011/01/just-gimme-indie-games/

Chester getting some press and attention for it’s upcoming XBLIG release.

Sequence gets a Kotaku mention

http://kotaku.com/5733939/this-xbox-indie-combines-rhythm-and-role+playing

XNA Game Development

Christopher Hill (@Xalterax) posts some great XNA Community Tips

http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/t/72512.aspx

@SpynDoctorGames releases another round of updates and bug fixes to the Global HighScore component (it’s now been converted to XNA 4.0!)

Indiefreaks Gameframework milestone one should be reached this week!

http://indiefreaks.com/2011/01/17/indiefreaks-sunburn-indiefreaks-game-framework/

If you’re interested in XNA and in New York...

http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/p/72753/443905.aspx#443905

Need a cross-platform XNA compatible vector drawing library? @TehGrumpyDude has you covered with Agg.XNA , his AGG Lite port

http://bnoerj.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Bnoerj.Labs&referringTitle=Home

It’s an older tutorial, but I hadn’t seen it before noticing Joel Martinez recommend it in an answer on StackOverflow. Pretty sweet if you’re new to doing splitscreen in XNA!

Mr. Gooodcast posts XNA Essentials for Silverlight Developers Part 1

http://www.pitorque.de/MisterGoodcat/post/XNA-for-Silverlight-developers-Part-1-Fundamentals.aspx
(and don’t forget to go back and read Part 0)
http://www.pitorque.de/MisterGoodcat/post/XNA-for-Silverlight-developers-Part-0-Why-should-I-care.aspx

Helmut (@mrhelmut) is giving away a license for Toon Boom Studio

http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/p/72817/444378.aspx#444378

John Defenbaugh (@SigilXNA) had a fantastic discussion about particles and collision on Twitter. Here are two of the more key tweets on the subject.

http://twitter.com/SigilXNA/statuses/27418787791765504
http://twitter.com/SigilXNA/statuses/27419925219905537
and the link to the GDC presentation he was talking about

http://www.bungie.net/Inside/publications.aspx#pub15938

Interesting post on thinking low level when you’re writing high level code. Doesn’t really apply to C# developers that much, but it’s still an interesting post and exposes one of my major weaknesses (I barely understand what they’re talking about in that post!)

http://altdevblogaday.com/think-low-level-write-high-level-0
In fact that whole blog is a fascinating read for game developers!

http://altdevblogaday.com/

New article/tutorial on using the scene editor of Unity 3D in other non-visual environments to create 2D or 3D games.

http://lucjose.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/articletutorial-use-the-scene-editor-of-unity-3d-in-other-non-visual-environments-to-create-2d-or-3d-games/

XNA Tower Defense adds Tutorial 12 - Adding a New Tower Type to it’s ongoing series of making a tower defense game using XNA.

http://xnatd.blogspot.com/2011/01/tutorial-12-adding-new-tower-type.html

Microsoft Press announces that Rob Miles new book “Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0: Learn Programming Now!” has shipped to the printers and will be available for purchase in February

http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/mspress/b/press/archive/2011/01/13/rtm-d-today-microsoft-xna-game-studio-4-0-learn-programming-now.aspx

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Hot or not: Are these celebrity crushes cringe-worthy or cute?

Should pregnancy equal special parking privileges?

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Tabatha Coffey shares her Shear Genius with Bella

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Who said it: Michael Scott or Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino?

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Find out what might be making your dog snore

Weigh in: Would you rather give up the Internet or food?

Savory, Spanish-style stuffed peppers

James Franco gets into a hairy situation at Sundance!

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Most popular posts of 2010

Here's a list of the posts that got the most comments this year. Interestingly, the post that got the most traffic is did not make the list. That post is: What it's like to have sex with someone who has Asperger's.

Thank you for a fun year. I feel so grateful to have my blog. Being able to write for this community and read the consistently insightful comments has made the year so much better.

Jan. How to make yourself more likable (208 comments)

Jan. 8 Tips for anger management (234 comments)

Jan. Do you overemphasize happiness? (249 comments)

Jan. Racism is alive and kicking. Hello, McDonald's. (415 comments)

Jan. How to manage a college education (185 comments)

Jan. Being an expert takes time, not talent (183 comments)

Feb. Test: Is your life happy or interesting? (246 comments)

Mar. List of things I hate (183 comments)

Apr. Turning point (294 comments)

Aug. When you're feeling lost, don't hide (162 comments)

Nov. Veterans Day should be cancelled (335 comments)

Nov. 5 Reasons to stop trying to be happy (152 comments)

New Beauty Brains Book is Coming

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Get Free Shipping on Cargo: The Cargo Cosmetics Collection for Spring 2011

All aboard! The cosmetics captains at Cargo aimed to take us on a trip with their new spring 2011 collection, and I like the destination.

I took a long, leisurely look at the six piece collection today (aren’t the pouches cute?) and absolutely love the travel theme. Most of the color products lean warm, and I think they work well with my yellow undertones. If you like the way you look in warmer shades, you might like them too.

For what it’s worth, don’t miss the Voyages Safari collection/kit. I was surprised by how great the products looked on both darker and lighter skin tones.

Now I just need someplace to go!

The entire collection includes

Four cute kits with special Voyages packaging…

Voyages Gloss Collection ($32 for five mini glosses with a sheer finish and a non-sticky texture)
Voyages Bronzing Collection ($25 for a bronzer in Medium and a kabuki brush; exclusive to Sephora counters inside JCPenney stores)
Voyages Water Resistant Collection ($25 for a full-size Water Resistant Bronzer and a mini Better-than-Waterproof Mascara; exclusive to Ulta stores)
Voyages Safari Collection ($34; contains one full-size eyeshadow duo, blush in Coral Beach and eye pencil in Khaki, and mini versions of CARGO’s lip gloss in Serengeti and Triple Action Mascara)

Other travel necessities…