Category Archives: Game programming

iBeast, a game concept by Dark Codex won the Best Game Concept competition at Norwegian Game Awards 09! Good work guys!   iBeast is a game for iPod and iPhone.   Pictures and more information will be added tomorrow!

Grill simulator 360 have now been handed in for PlayTest at the XNA-Creatos club( http://creators.xna.com ). Im happe I’m this far with the game and hopefully, there will be some testers! So, if you are a premium member of XNA … Continue reading →

Grill Simulator is finally getting pretty much done!   I had a presentation of Grill Simulator in front of 5000 ppl and I think I got a pretty good response so Im happy with it. The presentation was more of … Continue reading →

All tutorials are now updated with a more commented version of the shaders! This makes them a little easier to understand if you dont follow the tutorial text.

This week have mostly been work, work and work, but I have managed to use a few hours on Grill Simulator.   The game have been trough a balancing process, and made harder. New items, clothes and food have been added and … Continue reading →

If you got a few minutes, I encourage you to listen to Einar Ingebrigsten talk about games with Scott Bilas from Loose Cannon Studios ( And, one of the developers behind Dungeon Siege ).   Listen to it on Einar Ingebrigstens blog: … Continue reading →

I just read on the XNA creators forum that there will be an other Dream-Build-Play (http://www.dreambuildplay.com). This is a huge competition where over 350 games competed for $70.000. Now, thats a good reason to start playing around with XNA right? … Continue reading →

As XNA is a great platform to work with I decided to port the Silvershine project to XNA so it can be played on both XBox360 and PC/Windows.   Also, on Monday I’m going to have a workshop on "Cel-shading … Continue reading →

( This screenshot is over 6months old )   I’m happy to announce that the functionality of Grill Simulator 360 is done.   There is still a lot to do with testing, bug fixing and game balancing, but no new functionality … Continue reading →

During the past two weeks I have been using some time to convert Grill Simulator from XNA 2.0 to XNA 3.0. It was a really easy process, but I needed to do some additional work on the animation player and some … Continue reading →