Wow! It's been a while since my last post here. The reason: getting my life back to normal after my visit to Seattle/Vancouver.
A lot has happened since my last post. I'm still creating my own engine with XNA 3.0 (the latter is now out in beta), I submitted my demo game for the DBP compo, and we witnessed how a "ninja cat" approaches.
About my entry, well, it was created in 10 days ... the last 10 days before the submission deadline! I'm proud of the result but not proud at all about the code ... that implementation goes against of all my believes and practices in software design. But, it had to be done on time no matter what if I wanted to enter the compo. Why did I start so late? Well, that's a loooong story (maybe I'll blog about it some other time).
Man! There's a lot of great entries this year that really show off the power of XNA. If you want to take a look at them just go to http://video.msn.com/ and search for videos tagged, say, DBP? ... or "Dream Build Play", thanks Lawrence ;)
My favorites are ... well, I'll let you know after the results are in :-D
Ok, I think that's it for now but stay tuned since more is comming next!
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Saturday, August 09, 2008
BACK HOME
Yeap, after two weeks abroad, my wife and I got finally back home.
Visiting Vancouver for the first time has been a great experience for us. The city is great and people seem not to know the word "stress". The only minus, at least for us: everything is expensive there. But, what the heck, we were on vacation ...
Seattle's gamefest: as I said in my previous post, a great experience. The talks were very instructive. Sometimes it was hard to pick the ones to attend, but I'm not omnipresent, right? In this sense, I hardly walked around the city, but at least "I've been in the Space Needle".
Overall, some quality time. I hope to repeat it next year.
Cheers!
Visiting Vancouver for the first time has been a great experience for us. The city is great and people seem not to know the word "stress". The only minus, at least for us: everything is expensive there. But, what the heck, we were on vacation ...
Seattle's gamefest: as I said in my previous post, a great experience. The talks were very instructive. Sometimes it was hard to pick the ones to attend, but I'm not omnipresent, right? In this sense, I hardly walked around the city, but at least "I've been in the Space Needle".
Overall, some quality time. I hope to repeat it next year.
Cheers!
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
THE GAMEFEST HAS BEEN GREAT SO FAR
Oh man, I'm really excited of having travelled this far to get to Seattle's Gamefest.
I've been talking with many different people (peers, MSFties, MS partners, exhibitors, etc.), giving and collecting cards like crazy, and played a lot of games. In short, having a really quality time.
In this sense, meeting the guys behind XNA GS have been really nice: Shawn, Eli, Michael, and the rest of the guys. Also cool Xna'ers like Chad Carter, Bill Reiss, and of course, "old" XNA'ers (and ex-MSFTies) like TheZMan (Andy).
Also it has been a great opportunity to discuss some crazy ideas and techniques that I have and of course want to implement in the near future, and believe me when I say that the feedback has been encouraging (thanks Shawn).
The talks have been quite handy. Lots of techniques, upcoming features, relevant information, and of course: the yummy 70% that we "indies" could get if we reach the next phase with our games.
So, guys, tomorrow I'll be returning to Vancouver with my wife and sister, so maybe I can post more comments about the conference.
Opps. Have to go. The next talk is starting.
See ya.
I've been talking with many different people (peers, MSFties, MS partners, exhibitors, etc.), giving and collecting cards like crazy, and played a lot of games. In short, having a really quality time.
In this sense, meeting the guys behind XNA GS have been really nice: Shawn, Eli, Michael, and the rest of the guys. Also cool Xna'ers like Chad Carter, Bill Reiss, and of course, "old" XNA'ers (and ex-MSFTies) like TheZMan (Andy).
Also it has been a great opportunity to discuss some crazy ideas and techniques that I have and of course want to implement in the near future, and believe me when I say that the feedback has been encouraging (thanks Shawn).
The talks have been quite handy. Lots of techniques, upcoming features, relevant information, and of course: the yummy 70% that we "indies" could get if we reach the next phase with our games.
So, guys, tomorrow I'll be returning to Vancouver with my wife and sister, so maybe I can post more comments about the conference.
Opps. Have to go. The next talk is starting.
See ya.
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