Thursday 26 April 2007

Professional XNA Game Programming - Source Code

Here's a very nice game demo that's just been released, from the Professional XNA Game Programming book. You can download the source code or installer (completely free), and read more about it from Ziggy's blog. It would be interested to see what sort of tricks the writer is using for making this in XNA - I am of course a total newbie to 3D development and perhaps I'll be taking a look at it in the future to extract some useful tips (maybe even buy the book if I stop being so lazy), but it looks like even just the source code could be pretty helpful here so I've posted it for anyone to actually see a nice polished game.

Sunday 8 April 2007

Google Group for MyRPG Engine

This is simply to let you know that the MyRPG Engine (the .NET/XNA game engine that I'm developing) now has a Google Group over here, free for use by anyone for discussion, and hopefully with an upcoming Wiki. Please visit it and post on the discussion board if you have any questions about my engine. Of course currently there's only one demo, but I'm hoping things will pick up with the development soon (in fact I'm just waiting for a few of the team members to finish their current business). In the meanwhile, feel free to post on discussion where I'll be checking recently, but don't expect anything big on there until the next demo release!