Just thought I’d drop a quick update on what I am up to these days :) First off, not sleeping much thanks to the arrival of my 3rd kid! Got me a second girl! My poor boy will have it hard with two sisters ganging up on him! Work is keeping me very busy as well. Lots going on which I, naturally, can’t talk about :( Read more...
Coding is a challenging task. It’s what makes it super fun and rewarding though. It is, however, a very focus based task. Once you’re in the zone, you don’t want to be interrupted or taken out of that zone. When I am coding and find myself getting taken out of that “flow”, I tend to find a way to not let that happen again. Read more...
So! I am back! No, really! I mean it this time. Well, my intentions are to be back at least. I’ve been away from blogging for quite a while. A few updates are in order! I am no longer on the XNA Game Studio team. I haven’t been ever since we announced Kinect (aka Natal). I joined that team from the beginning and have been working there ever since. Read more...
September 3rd, 2009
Back from the dead! With a link :)
5 Comments, Beginner Game Tutorials, by nazeeh.Yes..yes…I am still alive. Just that I have been a bit busy with a little project called Natal. But I just ran into this really cool link and I just had to share it: Read more...
Yes ladies and gents. Today I want to talk a bit about my favorite new OS, Windows 7. I am not coming to you as a loyal Microsoft employee trying to sell our newest iteration of Windows. I am here as a dude just excited about a new OS (and I just happen to get paid by the company making it – but we’ll ignore that ok?). So why am I excited? Read more...
A bit of a belated “Happy New Year” to everyone! I decided to do some maintenance work on my blog that I’ve been putting off for a while. The visible part is the new theme I got going on here. Next on the list is getting some more content on! I am working on it :) Read more...
So… looks like according to Kotaku, StarCraft II is going to be released on 3 parts. I was just wondering what you guys think of that? I am a huge StarCraft fan (who isn’t?!) and am waiting anxiously for that game to ship! I was a bit bumped that they will release it as a trilogy, but then I realized that I really don’t play the single player portions of most of the games I buy. So it won’t matter as much. Speaking of RTS games… what do are you guys playing out there? It’s still by far my favorite genre even though I SUCK at them :/ Read more...
This week I am very excited to bring you a really fun team interview! Tom Miller is one of those people that needs little introductions if you’ve been following the world of Managed Game Development at all. Remember all that stuff about Managed DirectX? That was Tom’s work, he brought that to reality. So I asked him to spare some of his time to answer my interview questions, and here’s what he had to say. Read more...
With the upcoming release of XNA Game Studio 3.0 (it is currently in Beta), one of the big features of the release is the ability to write your own games on a Zune device. This is a very exciting prospect for a lot of people as well as the XNA Game Studio dev team. When we first released Game Studio Express, we didn’t know what to expect as far as the type and quality of games people would make. I remember sitting in a big room with a Xbox hooked up to a nice TV about to see demos of games from the first Dream.Build.Play contest. Boy… seeing games like Dishwasher and others totally took us by storm! So now that we have Zune as another platform, I want to make sure you guys have as much as you need to blow our minds again! So… what’s the deal with developing a game for the Zune? Read more...
You know… I still remember when I first joined this team back in 2005. Back then, the entire team could fit around one conference table and leave a few chairs open. Most of what we knew was that we were called the “XNA Team”. What are we going to do? Still not sure. We had a lot of things on the table and had to pick the most strategic one. Finally we decided to go after XNA Game Studio. “Let’s open up game development to the masses! Let the beginners/amateurs be able to write their own games!”. Hell…it’s about time (name the reference!). Fast forward to today, and we start seeing games like this one being made with our stuff! Read more...