Creators Club Communiqué 49

Howdy, Creators!

We’ve had a very busy March, but April showers bring May flowers and also exciting new developer education content! That is how that saying goes, right?

As per usual, Shawn Hargreaves leads the charge of amazing XNA Game Studio-related posts on his blog:

• • State Objects in XNA Game Studio 4.0
  • SpriteBatch and custom renderstates in XNA Game Studio 4.0
  • SpriteBatch and custom shaders in XNA Game Studio 4.0
  • SpriteSortMode.Immediate in XNA Game Studio 4.0

Shawn is a tough act to follow, but our Creators are up to the challenge!

• • Sgt Conker has an article on Windows Phone 7 Push Notifications
  • Daniel Vaughan offers a tutorial on Building a Windows Phone 7 Puzzle Game at The Code Project
  • Gavin Pugh shares a “garbage-free StringBuilder Format() method” using the XNA framework on his blog
  • Joel Martinez writes about Smooth Control with Touch using XNA Game Studio 4.0 for Windows Phone 7 on CodeCube.NET

Meanwhile, on XNA Creators Club Online, we’re also delivering some juicy bits of education for hungry, developing-developer minds!

• • Reach Graphics Demo
  • Show Shovel Mini-Game
  • Primitives
  • Primitives 3D

Check out our Education Roadmap for more!

xxoo

~kathleen sanders

XNA Community Manager