Brian Peek

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  9 minutes, 22 seconds
  Channel 9 turns 9!

  C9Team Mar 15, 2013 at 6:00 AM 48 Brian Peek , Charles , Clint Rutkas , Dan Fernandez , Duncan Mackenzie , Jeff Sandquist , Larry Larsen , Laura Foy , Golnaz and Rick Barraza

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  From our humble beginnings as a website built with alpha quality forum technologies that we stitched together with creative code and a lot of love, and our videos were made by a few dudes roaming the halls of Microsoft with a cheap camcorder – look at us now. Channel 9 streams live events to 100,000s...

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  14 minutes, 19 seconds
  TWC9: Update 2 CTP4 Go Live, Office 2013 Dev Tools, Kinect code and more

  This Week On Channel 9 Mar 09, 2013 at 11:20 AM 0 Brian Peek , Dan Fernandez and Greg Duncan

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  This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian Peek discuss the week's top developer news, including;

  • [0:42] March CTP (“CTP4”) of Visual Studio Update 2 now available (Charles Sterling)
  • [2:07] Now Available: Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 (S. Somasegar)
  • [3:33] Visual Studio Tools...
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  Fall Fury: Part 12 - Conclusions

  Coding4Fun Articles Jan 23, 2013 at 3:57 PM 0 Brian Peek , Clint Rutkas , Dan Fernandez , Den Delimarsky and Rick Barraza

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  Project Conclusions

  Developing FallFury was a fun and educational activity. Besides the fact that I got to work with an amazing team of people who were willing to assist me with the testing and development, I learned some important points about the development process as a whole and have outlined them...

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  Fall Fury: Part 11 - Hardware Testing & Debugging

  Coding4Fun Articles Jan 23, 2013 at 3:57 PM 3 Brian Peek , Clint Rutkas , Dan Fernandez , Den Delimarsky and Rick Barraza

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  Hardware Testing & Debugging

  As previously mentioned, FallFury runs on multiple types of hardware as long as that hardware supports Windows 8. This article describes the project’s general testing and debugging process, including setting the debug configurations and remote debugging.

  Check out the video...

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  Fall Fury: Part 10 - Charms

  Coding4Fun Articles Jan 23, 2013 at 3:57 PM 0 Brian Peek , Clint Rutkas , Dan Fernandez , Den Delimarsky and Rick Barraza

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  Charms

  With the release of the Windows 8 operating system, applications are now able to easily integrate with each other and have a unified way to control their workflow through unique system-wide contracts called Charms. Out of the multitude of available options, FallFury leverages two charms—Share contract...

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  Fall Fury: Part 9 - Particle System

  Coding4Fun Articles Jan 23, 2013 at 3:57 PM 0 Brian Peek , Clint Rutkas , Dan Fernandez , Den Delimarsky and Rick Barraza

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  Particle System

  During gameplay there are scenarios during which users need to be visually notified that something has happened, such as a collision with an obstacle or an enemy shell. One way to do this is by having explosion or item breaking simulation, which brings us to the next large component in...

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  Fall Fury: Part 8 - Element Interaction

  Coding4Fun Articles Jan 23, 2013 at 3:57 PM 0 Brian Peek , Clint Rutkas , Dan Fernandez , Den Delimarsky and Rick Barraza

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  Element Interaction

  During the gameplay multiple entities interact with each other to make the gaming experience what it is. The bear collides with obstacles and collects buttons, monsters shoot shells that can fly off-screen or hit the bear—all this is possible with the help of the basic collision detection...

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  Fall Fury: Part 7 - Animations

  Coding4Fun Articles Jan 23, 2013 at 3:57 PM 0 Brian Peek , Clint Rutkas , Dan Fernandez , Den Delimarsky and Rick Barraza

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  Animations & Item Transitions

  FallFury relies on a lot of dynamic content. As you already aware of how SpriteBatch is invoked inside the FallFury rendering stack, this article focuses on how dynamic activities are handled on existing textures and entities. If you need a quick look at what was already...

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  Fall Fury: Part 6 - Rendering Level Elements

  Coding4Fun Articles Jan 23, 2013 at 3:57 PM 0 Brian Peek , Clint Rutkas , Dan Fernandez , Den Delimarsky and Rick Barraza

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  Rendering Level Elements

  In the previous article, you learned how to build level XML files in order to create playable levels. This article discusses how the internal parser works and how XML nodes become items on the game screen.  Check out the video for this article at http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/FallFury/Part-6-Rendering-Level-Elements...

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  Fall Fury: Part 5 - Creating Levels

  Coding4Fun Articles Jan 23, 2013 at 3:57 PM 0 Brian Peek , Clint Rutkas , Dan Fernandez , Den Delimarsky and Rick Barraza

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  Creating Levels

  One of the goals set when developing FallFury was making the game extensible in regards to playable levels. Furthermore, I thought that it would make sense from the development and testing perspective to have levels as a completely separate entity that can be modified as necessary. For...

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