XNA Spacewar Starter Kit Webcast and other XNA Multimedia Content
Christina Storm
Group Program Manager - XNA Team
Frank Savage, development manager of the XNA Game Studio team, presented a webcast on September 26, during which he introduced the XNA Game Studio Express starter kit “Spacewar”. The webcast is almost one hour long. As usual, you can view the recorded webcast as a streaming video or download it for offline viewing. Click here to connect to this webcast. Frank itemizes changes to this starter kit since its initial release as part of our beta download, so you know what’s coming.
If you are wondering why we chose the format of starter kits to provide sample code projects for our customers, it’s simply because we are following the successful convention started by the Visual Studio product family. Starter kits came online with the Visual Studio 2005 releases. They are essentially enhanced project templates that can be shared with other members of the community. For the final release, we’ll have additional samples available for you.
Frank also mentions that there are many cool community sites out there that showcase great XNA samples and tutorials. They are easy to locate, and are a great source for additional content and ideas.
By the way, if it sounds like Frank has a lisp in the recording, I assure you, it’s the compression on the file! :-)
You might also want to check out the recorded presentations from Microsoft Gamefest 2006. You find the XNA sessions in the Developer Tools: XNA and Visual Studio Track. Unfortunately they posted the audio separate from each session’s PowerPoint slides, which means that you have to create your own presentation by clicking through the slides as you listen to the audio. But it’s still great content to review.
Last comment for today: You may remember that our product unit manager, Boyd Multerer, kicked off this blog in August. He was also interviewed by Ernie Booth from the Channel 9 crowd at Gamefest. Make sure to check out that video for more details on the team, thoughts on XNA and why we are so excited about our charter.
Ok, that’s it for today. Keep your comments and input coming, for example about the webcast and other content linked to in this entry. We’re looking at all of them and will keep you informed about our progress.
THANK YOU!
Comments
Anonymous
October 06, 2006
You should enable anonymous comments :-)Anonymous
October 06, 2006
Thanks for the links - I know it's not your area/responsibility, but I don't seem to be able to download the webcasts at the MS events site (even though I log in w/ Passport) - when I click the register button to get the WMV file, it goes to an error page. Then when I try to follow the feedback link to report this, that also goes to an error page! (a different one from the first one!) Any chance you could pass this on to them? Am v keen to see this stuff! Thanks, NeilAnonymous
October 07, 2006
I have the same problem with the Web Cast. I get an error whenever I try to register, and I cannot report the error. I wanted to check it out to see what features have been changed or added.Anonymous
October 08, 2006
Oh man, the same problems with webcasts :(Anonymous
October 08, 2006
Wow sorry your all having trouble, could you let me know what the error says?Anonymous
October 09, 2006
Hello everyone, it seems that the error has been fixed. Please give it a try again and let me know if you continue to have problems. Thank you!Anonymous
October 12, 2006
If you are a visual person like I am you often find it easier to visualize and understand things after