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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 has worked on a lot of tripple A games for numerous...

Posted to Blog'A'Little (Weblog) by Einar Ingebrigtsen on 08-11-2008
XNA Creators Club - new design & Community Games beta

Yesterday, Microsoft launched a completely redesigned creators club site alongside with a beta of the community games. Just entering the site after logging in, you can see how easy it is to submit a community game: The site is intuitive to use and in my opinion has a great design. Keep up the good work...

Posted to Blog'A'Little (Weblog) by Einar Ingebrigtsen on 05-21-2008
XNA 3.0 comes with better media support (MP3, WAV, WMA)

Another cool thing with XNA 3.0 is the ability to use MP3 and WMA files directly. This gives better compression for your music than the average of 27% before. These files can also be added directly to your content folder and used from the ContentManager as you would with any other content. Kyle Schouviller...

Posted to Blog'A'Little (Weblog) by Einar Ingebrigtsen on 05-08-2008
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 time to see if I can finally uninstall Visual...

Posted to Blog'A'Little (Weblog) by Einar Ingebrigtsen on 05-07-2008
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 day Petri Wilhelmsen (also known as digitalerror0r...

Posted to Blog'A'Little (Weblog) by Einar Ingebrigtsen on 03-31-2008
Silverlight 2 - rendering in a Storyboard event

During my "port" from Silverlight 1.1 to 2 of the Balder game engine I started working on last year, I've ran into a couple of gotchas. When I was optimizing the engine I discovered that Silverlight 1.1 had a speed issue when working with any Visual from managed code and adding it to the...

Posted to Blog'A'Little (Weblog) by Einar Ingebrigtsen on 03-30-2008
Game Camp at The Gathering 2008

Another event just appeared out of the blue. We got approached by Microsoft yesterday and was asked if we had the resources and capacity to hold a workshop of some sort at The Gathering 2008 . Good news: Game Camp is showing up and will hold a full day at the Gathering 2008 with the focus on learning...

Posted to Blog'A'Little (Weblog) by Einar Ingebrigtsen on 03-07-2008
Nithro in Imagine Cup

A group of people calling themselves Nithro has joined in the Imagine Cup competition in the category of game development. The group will blog regular on Game Camp in their own blog that can be found here . They will primarily write in Norwegian. You will always find a link in the navigation area of...

Posted to Blog'A'Little (Weblog) by Einar Ingebrigtsen on 03-06-2008
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 over at the XNA teams blog .

Posted to Blog'A'Little (Weblog) by Einar Ingebrigtsen on 02-22-2008
Silverlight 2.0 Slotmachine Game

I entered the European Silverlight Challenge with a Silverlight Slotmachine game and ended up halfway on the results list. I'm pretty happy with that result, giving that I only spent 3 full days on the solution. The graphics for the game was made by a friend of mine; Sigurd Kristiansen ( Simian ...

Posted to Blog'A'Little (Weblog) by Einar Ingebrigtsen on 02-22-2008

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