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Game Camp September Event - Registration now open
26th of September we´re holding our third Game Camp event. This time around we´re going across 2 simultaneous tracks. We´ve got a lot of exciting stuff for you, and as always; IT´S FREE. Scott Bilas is coming to do the keynote and a session as well. Scott...
2D Animation Content Pipeline
During my stay in Turkey for the Xna workshop I created a simple content importer that makes it easier to work with 2D animations. Very often you see people use spritesheets as the solution for animating 2D, which is of course not a bad way, it is a very...
Posted: jul 07 2008, 12:16 by Einar Ingebrigtsen | with 19 comment(s)
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Xna Workshop, Ankara, Turkey – some pictures
Here are some of the pictures from the workshop we held in Turkey. Click the images to see larger versions. We started on Tuesday with a 2 hour presentation (30 minutes) and live coding (90 minutes). Below you see all the people involved for the workshop;...
Posted: jul 01 2008, 10:09 by Einar Ingebrigtsen | with 97 comment(s)
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Xna Workshop, Ankara, Turkey – Material drop #2
During the workshop I held a few presentations were I walked through different concepts. The presentations was ranging from how to get started with a game project, independent from technology – to graphics concepts and finally specifically using Xna to...
Posted: jul 01 2008, 09:45 by Einar Ingebrigtsen | with 13 comment(s)
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Xna Workshop, Ankara, Turkey – Material drop #1
The Xna workshop held in Ankara, Turkey is now over, I’ll post all the material during this week. This will be the first material drop of a few. This drop contains the sample I worked on for the workshop, it is crude but it shows how easy things can be...
Posted: jul 01 2008, 09:40 by Einar Ingebrigtsen | with 14 comment(s)
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Interesting Xna case : Sobee in Turkey
During my stay in Turkey I got invited to a games development company called Sobee. They have created a few titles that I found very very good. They’re now working on a massive multiplayer football championship game written entirely in C# utilizing managed...
Turkey Xna Workshop almost coming to an end... :(
I've been in Istanbul and Ankara in Turkey for this week, and unfortunately it is coming to an end. Together with Microsoft Turkey, we've been holding a full Xna workshop and I must say it's been really great. All the students attending have...
Posted: jun 26 2008, 04:05 by Einar Ingebrigtsen | with 4 comment(s)
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XNA 3.0 CTP is here
Finally the CTP we've all been waiting for is here. You can now pick it up here and start developing for Windows, Xbox 360 and Zune (if you're lucky enough to own one). Another great news with this is that it supports Visual Studio 2008. It's...
XNA Workshop at METU in Ankara, Turkey
I was asked earlier by Microsoft if I could hold a workshop in Turkey. On the 20th of May I'll be heading down to Ankara and hold a 3-4 day workshop for a competition Microsoft is holding at the Middle East Technical University . I'm working on...
Game Camp - The Gathering 2008 material
We held an Xna workshop at the Gathering 2008 in the Easter and most of the material is now available for download from here . The workshop went very well. We held a 10 hour introduction to Xna with interactive tutoring the first day, the second and third...
XNA 3.0 in 2008 - now with Zune support
Microsoft has announced that they will offer a preview release of XNA 3.0 in spring of 2008 timeframe with a final release scheduled for the 2008 holiday season. XNA 3.0 will contain give the developers the ability to create content for Zune. Read more...
XNA Tour
It seems I'm going on what turns out to look more and more like a tour with Microsoft's XNA as the focus. I will be speaking at NNUG (Norwegian Net User Group) in Bergen Wednesday the 31st of October 2007.  http://www.nnug.no/Avdelinger/Bergen/Moter...
3D in Silverlight 1.1 Alpha
UPDATE: Go to my new blog and the post about the updates for Balder, 3D in Silverlight, here Being a game developer at heart, my first instincts whenever a technology comes out that have visuals to it is to figure out a way to create some cool 3D stuff...
Game Camp Norway starting up
After visiting the Microsoft Canadas' DevelopMental site (got a tip from Rune Grothaug at Microsoft Norway), I figured out I'd better start a Game Camp seeing that I'm all into game development and have waited for an opportunity to get the word out about...
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