Tom Miller's Blog
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Date: 03/25/2011
It occurs to me that I forgot to announce a few things on my blog..
For starters, I never mentioned that I had left the XNA team here. After spending approximately a...
Date: 08/08/2010
Artists wanted!
Oh yeah, are you a game artist and you want to see your art in an upcoming book? Then you...
Date: 05/02/2010
A new book on Game Studio 4.0
It has been about five years since my last book came out. During that time, a lot has...
Date: 05/02/2010
Oh yeah, I should have posted this before
Much like Shawn mentioned recently, I too got a twitter account after all this time. Although...
Date: 02/08/2010
XNA Game Studio 3.1 Zune HD Extensions
If you were already developing games for your Zune using XNA Game Studio, you’ll be happy to know...
Date: 09/15/2009
2009 Dream.Build.Play winners announced
At PAX this year, we announced the winners of the 2009 Dream.Build.Play contest with Dust: An...
Date: 09/08/2009
Dream Build Play 2009 finalists…
Once again, the Dream-Build-Play 2009 competition has provided a ton of great games. The...
Date: 09/03/2009
My blog is a constant source of new and exciting information…
It’s been over a year since my last post, and despite my many promises to myself (and anyone who...
Date: 09/03/2009
Make money from your amazing game creations!
Today we announced the Xbox LIVE Community Games. You can read more information about it (including...
Date: 07/22/2008
Community Games!
For those of you who don't read the XNA Team Blog the Community Games on Xbox LIVE feature has gone...
Date: 05/20/2008
Introducing XNA Game Studio Mind Edition...
I'm probably going to get in trouble for announcing this before any press release has went out...
Date: 04/01/2008
I just tried to use four render targets on my Xbox 360 and it failed!!
Dear Mr Miller, you suck. I'm running in 1080p resolution, and needed to have four simultaneous...
Date: 02/29/2008
Why CornflowerBlue?
This post will be purely speculation by me! Take a time travel machine back in time to early 2003....
Date: 02/27/2008
Why purple?
One of the things I'm going to try to do this year is write more on my blog. The publisher for my...
Date: 02/21/2008
Big Announcements!
Well, another conference has come and we have more announcements it seems. Hard to believe I've...
Date: 02/20/2008
Gamefest (or "I never seem to write blog posts anymore")
Well, Gamefest started today, and with that our team blog posted a new announcement. Exciting stuff!...
Date: 08/13/2007
XNA Game Studio Express Update
Next month we'll be releasing an update with a small sampling of some of things we've been working...
Date: 03/08/2007
GDC? Books? A web site? A blog post?
I never seem to find time to write posts here anymore. Well, to be more accurate, I get frustrated...
Date: 03/05/2007
Reflection
With a title like that I’m bound to start discussing the intricacies of one of the CLR features am I...
Date: 01/02/2007
XNA Game Studio Express Beta 2
Yay, Beta2! Check out our newly updated site on MSDN.
Date: 11/01/2006
Managed Games? Of course!
You may remember me talking about Koios Works before. They wrote one of the first retail games using...
Date: 09/01/2006
Download the Xna Game Studio Express (Beta) now..
Just click this link.
Date: 08/30/2006
Beta?
I heard somewhere that we might be having a beta of the Xna Game Studio Express before the end of...
Date: 08/29/2006
Random XNA thoughts and links..
Well, maybe not so random. First, ever wonder what the XNA Framework was? Look at Mitch's latest...
Date: 08/25/2006
Have you seen the XNA Team Blog?
In one of my posts yesterday I linked to it, but it is a good blog to read. I really enjoyed the...
Date: 08/14/2006
Wait, you can make your own Xbox 360 Games?
Turns out, Microsoft can't seem to wait until tomorrow. The press releases are all out, and woah, we...
Date: 08/14/2006
Gamefest is tomorrow..
Much like Boyd (my boss) says on the XNA Team Blog, I am pretty surprised we're here today and our...
Date: 08/13/2006
Last weekday before Gamefest!
As the title implies, Gamefest is rapidly approaching. It's the last weekday before the conference...
Date: 08/11/2006
So you wanna be a game developer?
(I'm gonna copy/paste since i'm in a lazy mood) Are you a hobby, casual or Indie game developer? If...
Date: 04/13/2006
According to Amazon, I had a new book come out this week!
If the title didn't give it away, I regret to inform you that I didn't. I'm sure everyone is aware...
Date: 04/12/2006
MDX1 or MDX2.. That is the question..
At least, it's been the question people have been asking me quite a bit. Given we haven't announced...
Date: 04/12/2006
Why does everyone seem to think the XNA Framework is only XBox?
In the comments section of my last post (not including the april fools joke) many people are talking...
Date: 04/11/2006
Exciting new announcements!
Well I have to admit, I've been anxiously awaiting the opportunity where I could finally get out and...
Date: 04/01/2006
Managed DirectX 2.0, Xna and Me...
One of the Program Managers for the Xna Framework recently started his first blog. Unless you have...
Date: 03/20/2006
Busy busy busy!!
Lots of changes been going on over here recently which have been keeping me quite busy (well, more...
Date: 03/14/2006
TrayGames..
Joe from TrayGames contacted me earlier and apparently they have a public beta available now. You...
Date: 03/09/2006
Koios Works, at it again..
So amongst the other mails I got today, i also got one from Marshall Belew from Koiois Works. You...
Date: 02/22/2006
More Academia using MDX?
I got an email today from "Matthias" who did some MDX work last semester at the University of...
Date: 02/22/2006
So many topics today..
This will be the first of a number of posts today.. It seems today is just the 'news' day for me I...
Date: 02/22/2006
February 2006 SDK Available..
I'm always the last person to announce these things, but.. Hey.. Did you hear? The February SDK is...
Date: 02/13/2006
The COMPLETE Effect and HLSL Guide
I just recently acquired a copy of "The COMPLETE Effect and HLSL Guide" and I must say, it delivers...
Date: 02/06/2006
Haddd 3D
Rather than just copy and paste the stuff that ZMan already wrote, i'll just link directly to his...
Date: 02/01/2006
World of Warcraft - Redux
Aside from this one sentence here, this entire post will be completely devoid of any information...
Date: 01/24/2006
Book Source Code..
I think I blogged about this once before. If I did, I don't remember when and can't find it. Since...
Date: 01/20/2006
Managed DirectX - It's not just games..
So here at Microsoft, we have this thing called a 'buddy program' which you can read more about at...
Date: 01/18/2006
MDXInfo
Just was shown a new website dedicated to MDX Info, called (strangely enough)...
Date: 01/17/2006