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.]

PROBLEMS TO DOWNLOAD CONTENT FROM THE XNA CREATORS CLUB ONLINE?

Ok, first rule: don't panic!

As correctly informed by Lori Ada Kilty (after I asked for help through the XNA Creators Feedback), there is no need to be logged in to get to any content.

So, if you happen to find that when you try to download, say, the "Simple Animation Sample" zip from the site, a page pops up asking you to create a GamerTag and then re-log in, just pay no attention.

Instead, clean you browser's cache, and re-try the download request; you will see that it just works great ...

Of course, if your country is listed on the registration page, don't be a lazybones and create a GamerTag.

'till next time ...

UPDATE: OFFICIAL WORDS ABOUT D.B.P. COMPO

Have you read my previous post? If you did, my apologies. If not, don't!

I should have checked any news on my RSS-feeds subscriptions earlier ... that's why the name of this site: "Do as I say, not as I do ..." (I'm not going to delete it to live in the shadows of shame as ways of auto-punishment; now where is my "dumb" cone-hat?).

Anyway ...

The XNA Team has informed in its latest blog's post three relevant things:

1. XNA Creators Club Online community site is open for business,
2. Dream-Build-Play's "main" competition has gone live, and
3. New partnerships and exclusive benefits for XNA Creators Club Premium members.

The community site is a great place to start with XNA since it offers a growing set of educational tutos, starter kits, samples and so on.

D.B.P.'s main competition is the dream came true for any indie developer that was/is willing to make it into the pro leagues: "The Perfect Compo".

Last but not least, the new benefits that "premium" members will enjoy are great: SOFTIMAGE/XSI Mod Tool, TorqueX Engine, Allegorithmic ProFX, among others.

So, go ahead and read this post, for the complete information.

Happy coding! ;)