Picked up one of these dongles at Best Buy yesterday. Less than half the price of a new controller, and it lets me use any wireless 360 controller (of which I own two) with Limburger. This should make debugging much faster. Thank you for the pointer, lediva(LImburger is the name of the stank Windows XP side of my creamy white MacBook, which is otherwise ( Read more... )

• Traded emails with my contact at MS about Project X's status, since it's been four weeks already (sheesh) since I signed the NDA. Was told that, why yes, they would like to see a new prototype submitted with the proposal, and they appreciated my effort to make that happen. So, that's probably the last they'll be hearing from me until it's ready ( Read more... )

Posting from the Windows side of my Mac. I just confirmed that exporting XNA games to an XBox works as advertised, at least if you're running Windows natively; there seems to be no way around it if you're going through VMWare. Am presently attacking the Asteroids tutorial I posted about earlier ( Read more... )

After a week of consultation and thought, I've decided to pursue "Project X" at full tilt. This involves me creating a prototype game for the XBox 360 and then pitching it at Microsoft, as a candidate for their "XBox Live Arcade" service of smaller, downloadable games. Things have aligned in such a way that not doing this right now would seem very ( Read more... )

XNA 2 is great. The documentation really wants you-the-reader to rapidly understand how to make games with it. It hands you the full source of XBox-SpaceWar, and a lot of documentation projects would stop there, leaving you to learn by poring over the code. The XNA docs, though, say "OK, now let's borrow all of its art assets and rework them into ( Read more... )

Contrary to what Wikipedia implies, Microsoft's new XNA Game Studio 2.0 is a free download. I liked it so much I installed it twice! Actually I installed it once on my purely-virtual VMWare Windows machine, and when it finally got up to the part where it was ready to compile its sample game, it went "Duh, I can't find a 3D card." So I killed that ( Read more... )