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Gamepad Racer Lives
I now have a new hero, Jerry V (Gamertag: Xyjar). He has only gone and produced a stunning video of a Gamepad racer session, complete with rocking soundtrack. The start of the race (I love the way he...
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Wear the Dream (or drink from it)
You can now get Very Silly Games T shirts and mugs. These are decorated with stylish (perhaps) and unique (definitely) logos, all of which were generated by an XNA program. With very little help from...
View ArticleSilliness on the Road
Rob Miles, one of the movers and shakers behind the Silly Games enterprise, is on the road at the moment giving XNA sessions. You can find out how things are going, and what happened when he told his...
View ArticleUniversal Sound Effect
Not content with providing mugs and T shirts, the Very Silly Game franchise is now moving into game developer resources. Every now and the we will be posting items that you might want to include in...
View ArticleCreators Club Membership Up for Grabs
Whilst I was at GDC I picked up a free Creators Club membership at the XNA sessions. I think it is for four months, but you may be lucky. Anyhoo, I'll give it to the the person who comes up with the...
View ArticleEnter the RSS Reader
I've been a bit busy lately on the latest silly program that I seem to have been spending quite a lot of time on of late. It is actually in use in our department at the moment, displaying messages on...
View ArticleMaking a Game Together
I'm trying something new. It will either work or it won't. Shaun is working on a Simon game in XNA. I've made a kind of start, and now I want everyone to chip in with comments and answers to questions...
View ArticleSimple Simon Updated and XNA on Zune now here
I've responded to the posts in the Simple Simon discussion. I'll be putting the next stage of the game up in the next few days.In the meantime, you might like to take a look at XNA 3.0. This is a sneak...
View ArticleVery Silly Video on Channel 9
If you want to see Rob Miles being silly (and who doesn't) then take a look here:http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/Rob-Miles-Very-Silly-Interview/
View ArticleSimple Simon Part 2 Now Available
The second part of the Simple Simon game development is now available for download. This version of the game is not yet complete, but it does have the main game state machine present, along with the...
View ArticleSilly Surgery Open for Business
I've set up another area of the site. The Silly Surgery provides a place where you can drop broken programs for a crack team of software surgeons to take a look and get back to you.The kind of problems...
View ArticleMoney from XNA
The XNA Creators Club (where you can publish your XNA games) is now open for business. You can post your games for other Xbox owners to play with and there are even moves to allow you to get cash for...
View ArticleThe Doctor is In
The first patient has been received in the Very Silly Games surgery, patched up and sent back to a waiting developer. If you are learning XNA and hit a nasty problem, feel free to check in your source...
View ArticleXNA Curriculum Materials
Rob Miles in the Very Silly Team is presently working on some curriculum materials so that anyone teaching programming can use XNA, C# and a bit of silliness to get the message across. The content is...
View ArticleFree C# Book
Rob Miles has now made the Famous Yellow Book available for download from his blog. This is the book that is used at the University of Hull to teach C# to the first year. It is given to students (and...
View ArticleVersion 3.0 of XNA book now out
The second version of the XNA book from Rob Miles is now in the shops. You can find out more about it here. If you want to obtain the code samples for this book you can find them here.
View ArticleNew XNA Curriculum Materials
Rob Miles has also produced some curriculum materials that you can download here. They are to teach programming from first principles, based on a suitably silly starting point. If the system sems to be...
View ArticleXNA Video Casts
And there's more. Rob Miles (who seems to be on a creative high at the moment) has also posted some videocasts about getting starting programming on the Thirteen 1 webzine site. Find out more by...
View ArticleSilly Screencasts
Rob Miles has been producing XNA screencasts for a while now for Thirteen 1 magazine. In fact he has now finished the first set. If you want to take a lok at these. along with the lab content, you can...
View ArticleChanges Afoot
It has been a bit quite here lately, but that is going to change in the near future. I'm going to be moving this site to a new home at robmiles.com, so that I can keep an eye on things and give better...
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