Zune update avaiable. Prepacked with games

Catalin Zima — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:37:35 +0000

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 menu. While in the main menu, click Back to exit.

June Sample online: Voxels on Zune

Catalin Zima — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:10:17 +0000

For this month’s sample, I worked hard to try and render some heightmap terrain on Zune, using voxel rendering, but wasn’t very successful.

Voxel technology was used to render terrains in some older games, like Delta Force, Commanche series, and the game that did the best job ever with voxels (and one of my top 3 games of all time), Outcast.

Some pictures of the sample:

Running on the Zune, at 320*240

Running on the PC, upscaled to 640 * 480

You can find the sample and source code here.

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Zune update avaiable. Prepacked with games

June Sample online: Voxels on Zune