XNA Games Studio Express.
Just sounds great when saying it and looks like it should be a great hit, reducing the time and effort required to build multi-platform titles (albeit Microsoft software only) and gives the community a low-cost option of getting their work seen by the outside world.
For those of you not in the know yet, I would suggest hiking over to the Microsoft XNA developers homepage for more details but in short, the studio is a add-on express studio which builds upon C# express and the .NET2/.NET compact framework (depending on what your releasing to Windows/XBOX360). It gives a wealth of support for game developers (from beginner to pro) for creating games and content and with a small yearly fee ($99 Per Year) you can test and publish you games to Xbox Live for the community to download and play.
Back now the the main subject of this blog – the Game Loop
Just recently I spend some time browsing through the rest of the XNA teams blogs (there are a few), I already knew and keep an eye out for Tom Millers Blog (good info) and also read Dave “Let’s Kill Dave” Wellers blog (for a funnier outlook on life and XNA).
But today I game across Rick Hoskin’s blog (who recently has started blogging in the team, so new he’s not even done his profile yet, lol), he’s a Pro game programmer and provides some very good insight to good programming styles, Do’s and Do Not’s.
Reading down I came across a nice little gem about a better game loop to use, he goes on further with some updates and even links to some further help on Toms blog (must have missed that one).
Just goes to show hoe much thought is required to choose a good game loop from the start and how much controversy there is on the subject.
Happy Blogging/Reading.!
Simon (darkside) Jackson
Engineer, industry executive, research enthusiast. Avid learner with diverse interests in coding, game development, Mixed Reality (AR/VR/XR) and reinforcement learning. 25+ years of experience working in multinational corporations and startups.
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