So far, 16 out of 25 articles have been posted covering a lot of aspects of game development both, in theory and in practice, not only to get started but also to help you implement advanced features such as "physics".
But the best is yet to come since the remaining articles will cover more advanced topics like "parallel split shadow mapping", deferred shading and "split space ambiet occlusion".
Happy reading!
As you may know the pictures of each of the three winners of The Code Project's VS 2008 Compo (sponsored by Microsoft - Defy All Challenges) are being cyclically shown on the "Defy All Challenges" site.
I guess now it's my turn to appear on the site (finally!): http://www.visualstudio2008.defyallchallenges.com/.
Cheers!
A couple of days ago I watched "The Da Vinci Code" on DVD and some "late nights" ago -given that I was sleepless- a rerun of "2001: Space Odyssey" on Cable, so as you can guess I soon remembered the meaning behind "HAL" -the computer of the ship- that some guys used to argue. What is worse and sad, I suddenly started to look for patterns in almost everything: "23, 23, ...".
With the recent announcements that we can create games for Zune, and being mainly influenced by the first-mentioned film above, I started to think over the meaning of the word "XNA", if any.
I know it has been officially claimed that there is no real meaning behind the 3 letters, but WHAT IF those letters resulted from other 3 letters ... (?)
Following this crazy idea I played around a few minutes "shifting" the letters a couple of places back and forward and hereunder you will find what I got:
V W X Y Z
L M N O P
Y Z A B C
I don't have a clue what "VLY" and "YOB" could stand for, but let's take a look at the remaining two arrangements:
Coincidence? Maybe ... :)
Watch this space!
[I know I have lost my mind but you still have a way out ... just avoid the combo of films: "The Da Vinci Code" and "2001". Don't worry, better posts are coming soon. I promise!]
