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.]

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 ...