XNA Materials

Before I went to give my talk yesterday we dropped in at the Microsoft offices in Schipol. Very plush.

They have these amazing lamp shades in the restaurant.

Time around the world, Microsoft style.

The presentation was great fun and the audience was lovely. I really like these trips out. Thanks to all the folks at Microsoft Netherlands for looking after me

You can find the presentation and all the XNA content that I used during the talk here.

XNA Netherlands

What a great audience looks like

Got up bright and early this morning to fly to Amsterdam and give a session on XNA. I also got to take a look around the splendid Microsoft HQ in Schipol. More pictures and the presentation slides and program content tomorrow. I’m off to bed now.

Marking Fun

Spent pretty much all of today marking. I’m half way through my first red pen.

A Hot Day for writing Custom XNA Content Importers

In between gardening and feeling very warm I wrote a custom content importer for XNA 4.0 today. This is the way that you can bring in your own content into an XNA game. I’m playing around with some game ideas and I needed to get a bunch of data into my game engine so I can twiddle with it.

Turned out to be a lot easier to do than I thought it would be. Actually, the whole content setup is lovely to use in XNA. If you ever want to do this, you can find a really great start here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb447754.aspx

The stuff seems to work fine in Windows Phone too. I really know how to enjoy myself in summer…..

Hot Weather

My, but it was hot today. I took this picture first thing in the morning looking across the river from St. Andrew’s Quay. This is the colour that it really was, no retouching. Around 10 minutes later the mist had lifted and it looked nothing like as nice.