UberGamerMonkey

Ok, so I came up with this crazy idea during lunch at work on Friday... It was to try and create a game over the weekend and submit it for the Dream Build Play competition. The game is rather simple in nature, and I think it turned out pretty well. The play area has 4 colored bars that run right to left...

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I wasn't quite satisfied with the design I started with for GameDevKicks.com . When I first started I was thinking of trying to keep it nice and small, but the more data I threw at it, the more I thought it should be a bit bigger. So I updated the theme and made it wider, instead of fitting a 800x600...

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I finally got around in moving this site over to asp.net and a different hosting provider. I am still looking for or going to learn how to create a custom theme for graffiti. I think I have most of all my posts and everything moved over. If not, email me and I can fix it.

I just finished creating a nice and simple little plugin for WordPress that replaces any instances of “<!--gdkkickit-->” into a GameDevKick “Kick It” image and link. I haven't tested it on anything lower than 2.5.1, but should work with 2.x. If not, please drop me a line...

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This is a very simple WordPress plugin that replaces any instances of "<!--gdkkickit-->" into a GameDevKick "Kick It" image and link. This is to reduce the amount of steps to get a post to GameDevKicks.com . Normally, one would: Write a post Submit it to GameDevKicks.com . Get...

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Wow, it's sure has been a while. I have started a few different side projects other than XNA. I finally have got back to my TileMap Engine, and have made great progress to what I before in the first version. I have fixed my 2d RenderTarget issues, and added a few new features. I have even started to...

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Late last night or early this morning, XNA Game Studio 2.0 was released. You can go to the XNA Creators Club site to get all the necessary files to get going. This new release includes XBox Live support, and much more. Here is a snippet from Microsoft's Download page. This release of the much anticipated...

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Up on the XNA Team blog, there was an announcement today saying that the XNA Game Studio 2.0 beta will soon be available. This is some great news, but would have been even better to just drop the beta on us while we weren't looking. Anyways, here is what they had to say: It's been a while since we posted...

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Yesterday I added a minimap and extended the gameplay area for r0idz. Day after day, I think this little game is getting better and better. All that I took was a screen shot, and a video to show it in action....

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I've been dabbling in TorqueX for a bit now, and I have started a new project to port a flash game I made back in college into XNA using TorqueX. The game is named r0idz, and you can probably guess by the name, it is similar to "Asteriods". I am currently working on finishing up the ship's...

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