The Mailowl Scrolls

After an exhausting week (which I’ll tell you about on Sunday) I sat down and got all the XNA pieces together to start testing.

For a quick recap you need: Visual C# Express, the August 2006 DirectX End-User Runtimes and of course Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express (Beta)

So far it’s pretty much what I expected, C# [...]

Damn! I got hold of a copy of Starcraft and the expansion Broodwars to practice for the upcoming LAN at rAge but I’ve got a long way to go. I haven’t played Starcraft since before the events of 9/11 but I seem to remember being able to take on 2-3 computer players at once. [...]

The NAG Game.Dev community has hit the double digits with its local game development competition and to mark this special occasion NAG magazine is sponsoring R10,000 in prizes! The competition is also double its duration (now 2 months) and the prize giving will be at rAge.

The community is taking the opportunity to advertise itself [...]

Someone please remind me to visit Computicket this weekend to pickup my ticket to rAge this weekend. That’s right; besides a free pass to the floor to help out with the Microsoft stands as an SA Developer member and the Game.Dev sessions I’ve bought myself a ticket to attend the 1000 man LAN which [...]

I couldn’t believe it! I was catching up on some reading on Gamasutra (probably the best source of news and info on the game development industry) when I came across an article naming Neill Blomkamp as the director of the upcoming Halo movie based on game. I knew it was coming for a long [...]

The 5th installment of the local game development magazine, Dev.Mag, was released this last weekend and in it are no less that 2 articles on Prehysteria; they even made it to the cover!
Danny’s article on transparencies and blending is also worth a read and the tutorials on the 3D modeling application Blender now include showing [...]