Grunt Work
December 4th, 2008
I’ve started working on the ‘Achievements’ screen. So… to load and save settings/data I’ll need to create some core functions. It isn’t fun, more like work… but neccessary.
Catching up on Some Reading
December 1st, 2008
The 2D Graphics section of the XNA documentation has been very helpful the last couple of days.
Screens and Menus
November 30th, 2008
I spent today getting a menu handling system in place. In this system each ’screen’ of the game is a class that inherits from a master ’screen’ class. The updates and content are managed within each screen. I’m hoping this is a good way to structure the game…
I also did some working on a menu system. Create the menu, add items to it and you’re good to go.
The startup screen.
XNA Audio
November 30th, 2008
Without any help this would have been a mess. This MSDN article details creating sound banks and cues. Here is a quick XACT compression overview on mitchw’s MSDN blog.
Saturday Roundup
November 30th, 2008
I didn’t do anything XNA related yesterday, but the South Hills Jr. Misfits won! Nice. Today I will be working on a menu/screen system for the XNA game. This will handle changing from screen to screen. I’d like the prototype flow to look something like: Startup Screen -> Main Menu -> In-Game -> In-game Menu
The Easy Part
November 29th, 2008
The first step was to get my 360 hooked up with Visual Studio. Here is the XNA client on the 360 waiting for a deployment from my pc. Also, an empty shell running on the 360.
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- The XNA client app waiting for a delployment.
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- The 360 running an XNA shell.
Tomorrow is super Saturday, NHL09 for hours and hours and hours…
