game development

Conference season has finally caught up to our Channel 9 producers I think. Here are a select 13 videos from last week. Need more? Well remember you can view Ignite (http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015) and Build (Link Removed) on-demand now too... :) Link Removed Joe Stegman, Group...

You all know how much I like the idea of kid coders, that we can teach the next generations that they are not slaves to their PC's, that they can have control, via code. With this event, they not only learn, share but can win cash too! Become a Technology Creator Link Removed You know those...

This week on Channel 9, Jeremy and guest host Kyle Gostinger, discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed Link Removed [Soma] Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed [Martin Woodward] Link Removed mspnp/Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link...

Developing games in Visual Studio 2015 will be easier than ever! Soma announced last week that Microsoft and the Visual Studio team is working very closely three gaming engine developers, so closely that in the future there will be "co-installation" of these engines baked in. As someone who...

This is the third of another four part series on building cross-platform apps using Xamarin and C#. In this episode Robert is joined by James Montemagno, a developer evangelist at Xamarin. James takes us for a tour of CocosSharp, a Xamarin library for building 2D Windows, iOS and Android games...

This blog is the latest in a recurring series about recent Store trends across categories, markets, and more. Understanding these trends can help you determine what types of apps to build or where to focus your development efforts. Data from the Windows Store is presented alongside the Windows...

I'm trying to create a text-based game, but I can't get passed the menu because either "set /p" isn't taking an input, or "if '%...'" isn't seeing it. This is what I'm doing to test menus, currently :mmenu echo Main Menu echo Start echo Quit SET /P "a=Select " if "a"=="Start" [removed:then...

This guest blog post is the final post of a 3-part series written by Windows developer Jani Nevalainen. Please see the original 3rd post on Jani’s blog Link Removed, and refer to Part 1 Link Removed and Part 2 here. Moving the ship When we’re doing a universal app, we have to take in account...

I cheating a little... Yesterday I highlighting this project in the Kinect Gallery, but since this news ties in so well with last week's blog post, I'm going to highlight here too. And can you really have enough Small Basic and Kinect news? :) Kinect for Small Basic System Requirements 1...

It's not often we get a new development environment that gets Kinect Dev support, so when we do, and when it's focused on getting to coding quickly, well we have to highlight it! Kinect for Small Basic 1, Download Small Basic 1.1 Link Removed 2. Download the Kinect for Small Basic installer...

You'd think everyone would be busy getting ready for Build and Ignite, but again this week there was a ton of great shows and news released... Link Removed This week on Channel 9, Vlad and Nikola discuss the week's top developer news, including;... Link Removed Link Removed welcomes Xavier...

I try to keep this list down to only 10-15'ish shows but this past week was a huge one for content, series and announcements. One of the big ones was from Scott Guthrie, Azure App Service announcement. Beyond that Windows 10 news, Win10 dev and the coming C# 6/.Net Core 5 and so much more...

I look back on this past quarter and kind of say, "wow." So much has been released, there was so much news that even with this round-up, it's hard to grok it all. Then I try to imagine what the NEXT quarterly round-up, post BUILD/Ignite, will look like [Brain Explodes]... Coding4Fun Blog...

I've highlighted MonoGame a number of times but it's always been dependent on XNA, which has been dead for a few years now, making it a little complicated to use. Until last week. MonoGame has just reached a huge milestone and has left XNA behind for good... Here are just a few of our MonoGame...

Level Up is a show devoted to game development. Each show will recap current news and events in gaming, deep dive with a game industry insider, and cover tips for programming or finding resources to help you with game construction. We would love to hear from you with feedback or suggestions for...

The big news of last week were the three different events from around the world... Link Removed Join Scott Klein and his guests Shawn Bice, Nigel Ellis, and Rohan Kumar LIVE each month on SQL Unplugged, your avenue for chatting with the three individuals who own the relational database at...

As we reported earlier, Angel Stone is the latest project from Fincon - father of turn-based game hit cult Hello Hero. In addition to the trailer was released, there is no more pictures of the title game was revealed. Link Removed However, in the event GDC 2015 Game Developers past, Korean...

Today we've got two posts about the new Unity 5 and the Kinect for Windows v2 and how, "it just works"... (I love those words ;) Link Removed During Global Developer Conference there were many announcements like Unity 5 availability for free. Of course, Unity has been offering a free version...

This guest blog post is the first of a 3-part series written by Windows MVP Jani Nevalainen. Please see the original post Link Removed, and stay tuned for Parts 2 and 3 coming soon. I believe that games are still one of the most fun ways to get to know a new programming language. Since there...

I had to search the blog here a couple times before posting this. I just couldn't believe I've not highlighted this previously! Link Removed I've seen several topics about Kinect controlled Avatars in Unity, so I'll bring to your attention our RUIS toolkit which is intended for creating...