Category Archives: XNA

XNA Version 3.1 was recently released and can be downloaded from here: http://creators.xna.com/en-us/news/xnagamestudio3.1   The new version adds a lot of great functionality! This includes Avatar support, XNA Live party support, Video Playback, Updates on the Audio API and the … Continue reading →

Now that the summer is here, a lot of students are working on their own projects. A team working on a project for DreamBuildPlay 2009 asked me to hold a workshop for them, helping them getting started with HLSL and … Continue reading →

Been another busy week and another to come as we are in the middle of going live on the project I’m working on, but I still managed to use some time on XNA. I have been working on the next … Continue reading →

Today http://www.ziggyware.com/ started adding my tutorials on their site. This is a really cool thing as the site is very popular and my tutorials will be reaching out to many more people than it would from just my blog on its … Continue reading →

I was thinking that I want to start another tutorial series, but this time on Artificial Intelligence in XNA!I see there are many topics and questions regarding this on various forums, and as I know something about AI, I might … Continue reading →

It’s less than 24 hours before tomorrows Game Camp User Group start, and most of my spare time have gone into preparing for this. I will try to record the event and put it on a stream so those who … Continue reading →

I have seen many different ways students and others are making to check the performance of their xbox game, and some statistics, whom do not know that XNA Game Studio includes a tool to do exacly this!   The tool … Continue reading →

I have recieved a few requests on a video for each tutorial, so one can see the result in action. So, based on this, I will use some time this evening to render a video for each tutorial and post … Continue reading →

If you play any games from XBox Live Community Games, you should take a look at this page!   http://xblcg.info/   This site contains information about XBLX and the games in there, so go there and start browsing for you … Continue reading →

Today I had the "Rendering the ocean" workshop with 6 students from Hamar, Norway. We started the session with making the waves, and then moved one with detaild waves, reflection and refraction.   The discussed algorithm was also implemented into … Continue reading →