Game Design

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…

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…

A number of times I've mentioned Unity3D, usually with the assumption that you all knew what it was, how to get it and how to use it. Well you know what they say about when you  "assume" something... That's why today's post caught my eye. It's not "code" per-se (though there…

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…

Today's Fun Wednesday is a project I've seen mentioned on a number of game dev blogs and is one that I'd been watching for a while, GLEED2D. The problem is that that version is based on XNA 3.1. So I've watching and hoping to see a XNA 4 version drop. Looks like I wasn't the only one. Via the magic…

Are you a game developer or want to be a game developer but don't know how to get started? You're in luck! If you're a Microsoft .NET developer interested in developing games for the Windows Phone 7 platform tune in to this show. Dan Waters, an Academic Evangelist from Microsoft joins…

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…

A small mobile app development shop of professional video game developers who create XNA games for WindowsPhone 7 in their spare time. This video features their founder, Jason Weimann, talking about their Alpha Strike game, which these developers made virtually in one sitting. Jason explains how he…

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…

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 to go with…