Tuesday, March 06, 2007

GDC UPDATE: WE'VE GOT NEWS!

Yes! News are comming directly from the source:
  • TheZMan has some news to share with us, which range from "vague" to "not heard before", including "pie in the sky ideas", and
  • Benny comments on creating "Dungeon Quest" (Day 1) as well as posts some pictures of GDC and San Francisco.

Will Andy find a better place to connect to the Internet and post updates? Will Benny's team meet the main goal on time?

Let's keep our fingers crossed and stay tuned to their blogs ...

IMPORTANT NOTICE: XNA FORUMS MOVING ON

David Weller has posted the following news: "Very soon, these forums will no longer permit new posts. The XNA team has moved their forum support over to the new XNA.com site, including the new site for community discussions and headlines, http://creators.xna.com.

We apologize in advance if this creates an inconvenience, but we are very excited about the new opportunities this will offer to our entire community.

We look forward to seeing you there! ..."

I know what you're thinking "LetsKillDave", right? ... ;)

NEED OBFUSCATOR FOR .NET? - PART 2

Remember this post?

Well, on XNA GSE's forums there's a new thread -regarding the same matter- where Jim Perry has posted a very useful link to a site with a list of available obfuscators for .NET (as well as discontinued ones).

The beauty of the site is that for each obfuscator listed, you will also know which versions of the .Net framework it works with (included the compact framework), whether there's a free version to download, when it was last updated, the vendor, etc.

Hope it helps, bye!

[BTW, I have tried to find a comparison chart in the Internet (independent from any vendor) with no success so far ... :( ]

THE GLOBAL CONTEST IS OFFICIALY UNDERWAY

Now that the warm-up challenge is over, the main compo has started, and the list of prizes for each winner is detailed here.

In short, there will be a total of 20 winners organized in three places:

  • One winner of the first place's prizes.
  • Two winners of the second place's prizes.
  • 17 winners of the third place's prizes.

Thus, only one indie will take the prize of all prizes: the long awaited publishing contract deal.

Watch out for the deadlines: "Enter March 5 - July 2, 2007".

So, let's code!

SPACEWAR WARM-UP CHALLENGE WINNERS!

Five games have been chosen by the jury, and the winners are listed here. You can also see some in-game screenshots for each.

Congrats to the winners!

[BTW, do you have links to builds of any of the winning games? Then feel free to post them here.]