Transforming a blog
The first step in fixing a problem is realising you have a problem and getting off your old blog.
Tag: ramblings
And so the journey continues
A personal journey breaking with the past and on to a brighter future.
Open Live Writer is a GO!!
Thought I would give this a go as some cunning bods have taken the decade old code of the awesome Windows Live Writer (WLW for short) and open sourced it, cr...
MonoGaming all the things at Future Decoded!
One of the biggest tech conferences in the UK is returning this year, refocused, re-targeted and yet still as big as ever. Compressed down to just two days (...
VSCode and Unity take another bold step forward
Today (September 10th) marks another notch in the VS Code journey to become THE lightweight multi-platform editor, the one editor to rule them all.
Having fun in space with trails
At the time of writing this, I am nearing the end of my second journey in to book writing. (in a very short period of time) In response to a survey I put out...
My State of the Union (odd coming from a Brit)
I’ve been very quiet of late, especially on my Blog. Now this isn’t because of anything sinister or just laziness, I’ve just been really REALLY busy.
Please be patient while we sort out the Holiday Cheer
Things have been quiet recently what with the Holidays and all. In fact WordPress even gave me an early present when I updated they kindly reset my entire s...
The long road back
Since I am a glutton for punishment, before and shortly after working on the WP7 app for work, I got involved with a talented developer in Auz called Chris H...
The long road out
It has been quite a few weeks now so I thought it was about time I let the cat out of the back of what I’ve been up to. If you have been following me on twi...
Woah, that is another big list
Over @ pixel prospector there is a vast (and I do mean vast) list of links to help out the aspiring indie dev in the whole marketing area. Why is this impor...
Nebulon Now Available!
Nebulon
Support Ziggyware
Ziggyware.com is one of the best sites for XNA resources and has been around since the beginning. It includes Articles, Tutorials, News and even an Image of...
Nebulon In Play Test
boxart
Life on the firing line
Another month another visit to India.
I am worn out already
Well I have been busy over the last week and even more so today. I have finally setup my new blog (the old one will remain for now as I have stated) and got...
What is in store 2009
2008 was not a good year for me. Work ramped up to 1000% and my family got a surprising present before the year had even begun. This did not bode well for ...
More free game goodness
Last year, I mentioned about EA releasing the fabulous (of its time) game that started a whole raft of other like minded games (that sounded better in my hea...
New Year, New Beginnings, New Developments
Time being what it is, I seem to have less and less to play with. One of the biggest casualties has been my Game Development progress, including this blog. ...
The Original Command & Conquer available for free
Going back to go forward
One day I’ll get back into my regular blog cycle, but today is not that day.
Another Busy day
Life just does not slow down Not that I want it to, really!!, but a rest every now and then would be nice.
Nice to have a mention
Seems I’m getting noticed more and more these days, always good.
Hack-1 Looking Back / Looking Forward
Postmortem from my entry in the XBOX360Homebrew contest
XNA Game Studio Express Released
Excerpt from Mykre’s Blog – damn he was quick, even the XNA team blog or any of the XNA team haven’t even announced it yet!!!
The Development part of the Homebrew is now done, Hack-1 published
In case anyone’s interested, the XBOX360 Homebrew contest has now entered the voting stage and all development is complete on the competition entries.
Are you on Target? and what is Manders Vs Machine?
If you read the previous posts on my blog, you should notice I focus mainly on concepts for game development and utter nonsense, if you want tutorials and co...
Back with the old - XNA101.NET
Quick update
The XNA Trip
Well most of us at some point will casually chat to the XNA team on the forums or IRC, usually asking for answers to questions or problems, or for the more p...
While you were sleeping
Well as I mentioned in my last post, XNA Game Studio Express Beta 2 would be coming soon and lo and behold what did I find while checking my blog posts this ...
The up-n-coming XNA beta update
For most of you in the know the XNA framework and XNA Game Studio Express are going to get a refresh to beta 2, thanks to Dave “LetsKillDave” Weller (still g...
Let's Kill Dave! : XNA Game Studio Express Beta 2: Coming Soon!
Thanks to good old (well maybe not all that old) Dave Webber on the XNA team for this little heads up and in case you haven’t heard yet, the XNA team are go...
Well do not say I am not a caring Guy
As life moves on it seems I get less and less done, even while using the XNAhomebrew contest to kick my rear into gear (hey that rhymes) and get Hack-1 off t...
Knowing When to Quit
As a side note and not really about game programming, an extract from (strange place indeed) the Dilbert Blog, good old Scott Adams has some ramblings about ...
Life - What does it mean?
I thought it was about time I put down on my own monster project which has been going on for some time now and the new direction I’m taking for a while.
Weird Ramblings and hosts of new support
Life is taking strange turns these days, work is getting dull, I have reverted to playing an old 1993 game called “Megatraveller 2” which I never got to comp...
Belated Writings
Not much to comment on here, not blogged for quite a while now since the purchase of my new PDA.
If you have not Heard yet - XNA Game Studio Express beta 1 now available
Quote from Microsoft XNA Site:
Which loop to use - an Update - and XNA Games Studio Express
XNA Game Studio Express
First Beginnings
When I first got into Game Development I thought I had a fairly rough idea of what I was getting into.
Welcome to My Blog Site
Welcome all to my blog site.