Catalin's XNA Experiments

I got married! Packing for honeymoon! Wonderful times!

And I was so proud of my 360, manufactured in November 24 2005… I still have some small hope for a miraculous recovery after I let it rest until tomorrow… but I realize chances are slim.

Ziggyware.com is one of the best sites for XNA resources, including Articles, Tutorials, News and even an Image of The Day section where you can look at what other people are doing. But that’s not all. One of the things that sets Ziggyware apart from others is that about two or three times each year, [...]

It’s been a long time since my last post, and I’m sorry about that. However, I’m currently busy with finishing my Bachelor’s Degree Project for my university, so until that is done, there probably won’t be any more updates. After that, I’ll get back to XNA, and hopefully I’ll release more content and samples. Until [...]

I’m not usually posting links to stuff here, but I really think this one deserves it: a nice video about Problems and Choices in game design, in a format similar to Zero Punctuation. Here’s the link. Have fun watching it!

I finally got to install the Windows 7 Beta, and I can say I am very satisfied with it. I won’t start to enumerate all the reasons, because lots of other people are already doing it, but there’s one thing I have to mention. I am a fan of Microsoft Connect, and I’m happy to [...]

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I was just reading about the New Xbox Experience on the Gamerscore Blog, and I noticed one interesting screenshot. It seems like this is how the Community Games marketplace will look like. Besides it looking awesome, we can see that we will have a “New Arrivals” page, a “Most popular” page, and will be able [...]

The XNA guys have just released the XNA GS 3.0 beta. You can read more about it on the XNA Team Blog, and on the 3.0 beta page. I also recommend checking out Zman’s comprehensive list of API changes from 2.0 to 3.0. Now go ahead and install it!

I just found out about the new Zune update going online from Mykre and went ahead and installed it. An interesting thing after updating is the presence of two prepacked games in this update. These are Hexic and Texas Hold’Em. Have fun playing! Note: neither of the games have an Exit option in the main [...]