Game Design

I met with the folks from Carnegie Mellon who created the Dungeons and Dragons game on Microsoft Surface called Surfacescapes, which is a double helping of geek. I asked them about some of the challenges they faced, some of the decisions they made (like virtual dice), and where they hope…

Get familiar with the GameMaker: Studio IDE from YoYo Games and the basic functions you can use to build your Windows 8 game easily and quickly. Game On Virtual Event On-Demand Videos: (Part 1) Welcome & GameMaker 101 (Part 2) Building your First Basic GameMaker Game (Part 3) Windows 8 Features…

In this session, Daniel Egan will take the learnings from the previous session(GameMaker 101) and build the beginnings of a platformer game using GameMaker: Studio for Windows 8. Game On Virtual Event On-Demand Videos: (Part 1) Welcome & GameMaker 101 (Part 2) Building your First Basic…

Simon Said game on began life as a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that showed off touch user experience. Since then, it's become an advertising supported application for Windows Phone 7. David Kelley, User Experience Architect for Wirestone, explains how you can get AdCenter…

As you may have heard me say before, I love Tower Defense games. In fact, I've always wanted to build one or two but the main problem is that I'm better with ideas than programming. On the other hand, TD games are all very similar—creeps go in, creeps (try to) go out. Meanwhile you try your best to…

Kevin Wolf of Tampa, FL has published an innovative Casual Game framework to codeplex named WiMo-GF.  WiMo-GF allows a developer to target Zune, Silverlight, and Windows Mobile 5.0 to 6.5 with a single codebase.  The framework encapsulates multitouch, accelerometer, and ships with…

Been thinking about designing a game tool that could be used to make funny Xmas Games.  Maybe elf bowling (like the one created a few years ago) and so forth.  This would be a way to clearly illustrate the use of classes and functions.Keep an eye on my blog at…

Game developers attending GDC this week will get a first look at the latest version of the XNA toolkit – XNA Game Studio 4.0 – which provides the technology to create games for Xbox 360, Windows, and now, the Windows Phone 7 Series. Shawn Hargreaves posted on his blog about what’s new with this…

XNA Game Studio really does give you all you need. Not only do they give you the tools to make the games that you want, but they also give you the training and tutorials to give you the skills to do it. I ran across one of their many game design challenges to see exactly how it…

For more on Popfly Game Creator don't miss This Week on Channel 9. Jacqueline Russel, Lead Project Manager for Popfly, talks about Popfly Game Creator and Adam Nathan from the Popfly team goes over building a 2D side scroller. I played around with it this morning and it's really simple - so if…