Converting DirectX .X files for use in games
While putting together the UnityXNA article I cast aside all warnings and threw caution to the wind and spent a bit of time trying to get my 3D starter XNA sample in to the framework, it should come as no surprise from the tenant of that article that I failed, granted I only spent about
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XNA to UnityXNA and Beyond
Continuing on the exploration of XNA future I posted about an interesting new framework that was brewing by Barnaby Smith over at MVINetwork, a curious project aiming to bring the ease of use of XNA into the Unity3D engine. The project itself is fascinating but at its heart basically just a wrapper around the Unity
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XNA to MonoGame and beyond
As part of a new “Back to basics” series which extends on my original XNA Futures article some months ago, I’m going to cover all the options I explained back then in more detail plus probably a few others which have come to light recently. All of this is to show developers who have worked
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XNA in Windows 8 from dream to reality
Just to cross post back to my own blog (really did that the wrong way round ) here’s my entry to the Intel App-Up competition now being run on codeproject, if you got an idea for an app or game for Windows 8 then you should write a short article for the comp about your
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Windows 8 submission trials and tribulations
Boy what a crazy couple of months, to kick things off I got my first Windows 8 game up and running and through the App Excellence labs on to the Store in prompt fashion, not a glitch (if you don’t count the first lab I attended not understanding what the labs were really there for,
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Hold on I forgot to mention…
There’s always that point when you are maintaining and developing your live project when you really wish you had a way to communicate to your users, it could be as simple as a “Check this out” or as worrying as “My backend service provider just crashed please check for my update”. In the past this
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Windows 8 Corrupt Packages
Like with any new system there are bound to be some kinks in the road, issues or just downright annoyances that will send you spiralling into the deepest dark pits of annoyance (the last has been me for the last few weeks). A situation exists (which unfortunately is not reliably or easily repeatable) where you
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AdRotator for Windows 8
*Note by popular request here’s a sample (pulled from the AdRotator site) showing AdRotator implemented in a Windows 8 app with AdDuplex, PubCenter and a local House AD. As battles go this was certainly one of the strangest. Windows 8 introduces so many different ways of working, some expected and welcome, some not so. One
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