Tycho, one of the co-authors of the venerable gaming comic strip Penny Arcade, made some comments about Microsoft and Microsoft bloggers that “Let’s Kill” Dave from Microsoft’s XNA team found objectionable.
To sum up, Dave doesn’t like the accusation that Microsoft bloggers are a “phalanx which encircles the web, [with a collective] position as explicit partisans [...]
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Through Tim Sneath (who, at long last, I had the pleasure of meeting at Dublin’s IMTC) comes the most impressive Silverlight 1.1 Alpha demo I have seen since MIX07.
A company called NetikaTech has recreated a vast amount of the Windows Forms controls using Silverlight. And perhaps most impressively, there’s a mock-up of a Windows Forms Design Surface [...]
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As part of my Last Stand demo, I showed how to integrate Nintendo’s Wiimote controller into XNA, first to navigate a butterfly around an environment by tilting and rolling the controller, and then to walk a creature across a tightrope wire by holding the Wiimote like a balancing pole.
I won’t be posting the code to [...]
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You can download the source code from the Ireland’s Call demo here - obviously, this is provided completely free of any guarantees, and smells like code that was whipped together for a demo! Open the file Game.cs and read the notes at the top if you want to go exploring.
If you’re looking at the code, [...]
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If you have the Guitar Hero X-Plorer controller for the XBox360, here’s an XNA application that will let you play Ireland’s Call (a.k.a. “The Rugby Song”) on your PC or XBox360. This was my finale at Rob’s Last Stand last week.
This game is a bit more “free form” than the real Guitar Hero, in that [...]
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Posted in Moose, Personal on Jun 9th, 2007 2 Comments »
Here was my XBox Live Gamertag this morning:
According to Dave, that makes me a sad git, and he’s probably right, but according to Guitar Hero, it also makes me:
Rock on.
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When the XNA-fuelled fireworks were over at yesterday’s Last Stand in Dublin (literally and figuratively) I was totally lost for words. When does that ever happen?!
What I really want to say most is thank you - especially to Clare Dillon, Philip McKeown, Fergal Breen and everyone else at Microsoft, MTUG, IrishDev and beyond who made [...]
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