I'M BACK ...

Yes, it's true. Please don't cry: you knew I would continue to terrify you with my "regular" posts ... :)

My short holidays are now gone, so back to work, filtering email messages, daily worries, and, ... well, you all know ... :(

Anyway, it was good while it lasted ... ;)

What has been going on in the XNA world? A LOT! At least, according to XNAtutorial's Weekly Update: new sites, new source codes and new tutorials. The list is impressive.

In other news: Shawn Hargreaves' has yesterday announced that a new blog from another XNA-Team member has kicked off, Dean (Johnson)'s XNA Blog, with an opening article that discusses the math to rotate 3D objects (a great way to start, IMHO).

Also, I must tell you that the week before I started my holidays I was checking a couple of sites with tutorials worth following:

• The Ramblings of a Hazy Mind: you'll find quite handy articles about 3D, scene management and XNA -not only for starters. Michael's has posted his 11th tutorial for a Complete Octree Functionality in XNA, and
• Riemer's XNA Tutorial: great series of articles from the grounds up now mainly related to XNA; you will still find the old ones for C# and Managed DirectX (as well as for C++, and VB). Also, pay a visit to Riemer's forum for news, corrections, suggestions, questions and general topics.

Remember one of my last yearend's posts "XNA: COUPLE OF NEW FRAMEWORKS"? Well, people in the XNA Community is now becoming aware and or starting to pay more attention to 'XNA Magic'. Told ya, the demo videos catch one's attention, indeed.

Any news regarding the "Dream, Build, Play" contest? I have checked the site but there's no additional info yet about the exact starting date of the contest, deadlines, prizes, rules, etc.

Well, that's pretty much it, don't you think? A lot to check & read, so I better start a.s.a.p.

'till next time!

[BTW, thanks Lawrence (a.k.a. 'Sharky') for your support to my blog ... ;) ]