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I recently had a call with Unity Technologies (http://unity3d.com/) CEO David Helgason where he graciously gave me 45 minutes to geek out with him on Unity, on Unity v4 (http://unity3d.com/#unity4beta), which is in beta, and how Unity fits in the Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 world. Before we dived…

Dear friends, As we start the new year, it's a great time to step back and review where we want to go with Coding4Fun, what kind of content we're passionate about, and most importantly, what we can do to inspire and enable everyone to get busy coding for fun themselves. Our TeamWe've expanded our…

A quick note (since my http://buildwindows.com earlier today was admittedly a little sparse), I just saw project the by David Burela cross my news stream and thought you might find it appropriate. The source is available, though it does use a third party control set (the Infragistics NetAdvantage…

Today's project is one that is both a "Wow, so that how something like that works" and an "ouch, the math is hurting my brain" kind of project. The depth this article goes into is pretty cool and if you stick with it, you'll come away with a much greater understanding... and some…

Today's Web Wednesday project is multiplayer HTML5 based Asteroids like game, showing off some simple HTML5 canvas dev and C# web socket communication. SpaceShoot - A multiplayer game in HTML5 The interest in using HTML5 to produce awesome cross-platform games has been increased lately. Technologies…

First a tease... Try F# demonstrates the power of F# to solve real-world analytical programming and information-rich problems by providing a web experience to help you learn the F# language, create programs, and share information—quickly and easily. You all know how much I like "learning…

You've all see the recent Coding4Fun articles on the Fall Fury project, right? What? No? (Well of course I know YOU have, but maybe there's a few other haven't...) What is Fall Fury anyway? FallFury is a 2D platformer in which the player controls a falling bear, trying to avoid obstacles, dodge…

The final Hardware Friday post of the year can't just be on one project now can it? Let's get ourselves set for another great year and get set to hit the ground running building some fun Netduino projects with a great set of Getting Started series by Jeroen Swart Netduino - Getting Started with…

Today's Fun Wednesday project is one that's going to help you great cool games, free! These HTML5 games can be exported to Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and other platforms as well. Construct 2 PhysicsAdd realistic physics effects to your games in a few easy clicks. Special EffectsOver 70 visual…

Today's project takes us further down the Windows Phone 7 & XNA trail, this time adding some cool stuff like Physics, level editors and more. Found via Windows Phone Geek'sBounceBall - XNA Farseer Magic (full source code) post and is hosted Code Project BounceBall - XNA Farseer Magic WHO,…