Game Theory
A blog by Microsoft Academic Developer Evangelist, Dan Waters
Building a 3D Game in XNA From Scratch - Free Video Tutorial Series Now Available!
Updated 12/30/2011 with fixed video links After far too many hours of learning, teaching, recording,...
Author: dawate Date: 02/05/2008
Update on XNA Rockout project
XNA Rockout has been renamed, and the aim of the game has been changed a little bit. However, I have...
Author: dawate Date: 02/05/2008
XNA Rockout - Guitar model update
Now with the pickups modeled and a headstock logo in place (and decent wood texturing) Coming soon -...
Author: dawate Date: 01/04/2008
Imagine Cup 2008 Team Blogger
A student from a New Jersey Imagine Cup team is blogging about his experiences in this very...
Author: dawate Date: 12/16/2007
Robotics and .NET Fundamentals Series
Hi there. I just posted quite a lot of video content for students and enthusiasts looking to learn...
Author: dawate Date: 12/14/2007
Robotics and .NET Fundamentals - Part 5 of 5
In this final installment of the series, we will build on Part 4's VPL project, but we will add a...
Author: dawate Date: 12/14/2007
Robotics and .NET Fundamentals - Part 4
In stark contrast to Part 3, in this segment we'll be using Microsoft Robotics Studio (download) and...
Author: dawate Date: 12/14/2007
Robotics and .NET Fundamentals - Part 3
In this installment, we'll build on what we learned in Part 2 by adding Bluetooth connectivity and...
Author: dawate Date: 12/14/2007
Robotics and .NET Fundamentals Series - Part 2
(link to part 1) In this video, we'll learn how to connect to the iRobot Create over a serial...
Author: dawate Date: 12/14/2007
Robotics and .NET Fundamentals Series - Part 1
This is the inaugural post of my five-part series on beginner robotics in .NET! You can download the...
Author: dawate Date: 12/14/2007
Upcoming Video Series on Robotics and MSRS
Watch this blog for a five-part video series on (very basic) robotics for students (or enthusiasts...
Author: dawate Date: 12/14/2007
Live Search and Image Processing
New innovations in search are being made every day - so many, in fact, that I seem to miss out on...
Author: dawate Date: 12/13/2007
XNA Game Studio 2.0 Released!
Woot! The moment you've all been waiting for is upon us. XNA GSE 2.0 has been released with some...
Author: dawate Date: 12/13/2007
Digital Literacy Curriculum Version 2
Microsoft has released a new version of its Digital Literacy curriculum. " The Digital Literacy...
Author: dawate Date: 12/10/2007
Kuala Lumpur - GK3 Conference
Philip DesAutels is attending the GK3 conference this year in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, entitled...
Author: dawate Date: 12/10/2007
PDC 2008 Announced
I'm probably not the first to enlighten anybody about the PDC 2008 announcement. After PDC2007 being...
Author: dawate Date: 12/10/2007
Build Social Networking Sites Quickly With Windows Live Quick Apps
Have you seen Windows Live Quick Apps? These are downloadable, fully featured applications that you...
Author: dawate Date: 12/10/2007
Using Live Effects in Expression Blend
I found a really helpful article on the Silverlight forums answering a question I've been wondering...
Author: dawate Date: 12/05/2007
Trying out Social Networking plugin for Windows Live Writer
Frank Arrigo suggested this little plugin by Rahul Soni that allows you to add little social...
Author: dawate Date: 12/05/2007
Zambia Workshop | WorldAgInfo Days 1 & 2
As people in the field, we constantly struggle with a variety of big questions - how do we reach a...
Author: dawate Date: 12/05/2007
How To Get a Mentor
Probably once or more every week, I stand back and say, "Whoa. I work at Microsoft." For a...
Author: dawate Date: 11/23/2007
Video Blog - U. of Central Florida Halo 3 Event
We had great success at the University of Central Florida on October 19th. I had the opportunity to...
Author: dawate Date: 10/25/2007
A Day in the Life of an Academic Developer Evangelist - Video Blog
I do a lot of things in my role as an Academic Developer Evangelist, but my favorite part of the...
Author: dawate Date: 10/11/2007
New Live.com Search Engine
I noticed today that live.com has a new look. Not only that, but it is better... faster... stronger!...
Author: dawate Date: 09/18/2007
Overcoming Your (Young) Age Part II: 4 Guidelines for Workplace Performance
If you meet the description outlined in Part I, you may be wondering what you can do to maximize...
Author: dawate Date: 09/04/2007
Overcoming Your (Young) Age Part 1: Accepting Your Fate
As technology becomes more and more commonplace in the world, a new generation experiences gadgets,...
Author: dawate Date: 08/31/2007
XNA Game Studio 2.0 - What everyone should know
If you haven't heard yet, XNA Game Studio 2.0 (as announced at GameFest) will have two features...
Author: dawate Date: 08/20/2007
Upcoming Florida .NET Events
Get yourself acquainted with the Florida .NET crowd at these fine events coming your way in August...
Author: dawate Date: 08/17/2007
Interview with Blaise Aguera y Arcas, The Man Behind Photosynth
On the heels of an announcement regarding Photosynth and NASA working together, I had the...
Author: dawate Date: 08/08/2007
NASA & PhotoSynth Collaboration
Live Labs announced today that NASA will be using PhotoSynth to create 3D environments of the...
Author: dawate Date: 08/06/2007
Giant Asteroids Made Possible With Lasers
Well, that's certainly a cool sounding title for a blog post, but it doesn't really compare to what...
Author: dawate Date: 08/06/2007
Sing To Your Computer To Identify Songs
I have been asking for something like this for a very long time. Dr. Sandra Uitdenbogerd at RMIT...
Author: dawate Date: 07/27/2007
Xbox 360 Networking With A Laptop's Wireless Connection
Is your Xbox 360 in a room far, far away from your broadband router, and you just don't have the...
Author: dawate Date: 07/17/2007
Reporting from 3rd Annual Tampa Code Camp
I'm at the Tampa Code Camp in St. Pete today with Joe Healy and Russ Fustino and we are having a...
Author: dawate Date: 07/14/2007
Setting up Technorati
... What's a blog without Technorati?Technorati Profile
Author: dawate Date: 07/05/2007
Congrats Nikita!
My friend and Student Partner at U. of South Florida, Nikita Polyakov, has received an ASP.NET MVP...
Author: dawate Date: 07/02/2007
Creating A Really Simple Web Service For Popfly Consumption
I created a really basic web service that performs an IP geolocation based on the database at...
Author: dawate Date: 05/23/2007
Popfly, You're "Out"
Microsoft is announcing a new tool called Popfly today. It will be a lot of fun to try out this...
Author: dawate Date: 05/18/2007
Let's Write a 2D Game in XNA
I just finished up an article documenting a game I just finished. Check it out if you're interested...
Author: dawate Date: 05/18/2007
Welcome, .NET 3.0 Training, and XNA is Great
Hey, Internet. How are you guys? I wanted to open up my first MSDN blog post with a bang; I wanted...
Author: dawate Date: 05/17/2007