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In the last couple of weeks I’ve made great use of the TODO and HACK task tokens in Visual Studio to track work-arounds and changes that have been made in our project. We’re running parallel with the existing system in a test state and there are lots of little changes that the users want (default [...]

I hope you’re enjoying the local game development magazine, Dev.Mag, I’ve been telling you about and I hope you got yourself issue 7 and 8.
If you haven’t head over to http://www.devmag.org.za and download this free e-zine; and you can even subscribe to the email notifications for when future issues come out.  Unfortunately I’m [...]

There are 2 blogs I really want to encourage you to look at and add to your aggregated feed.
The first is Coding Horror by Jeff Atwood, who’s a software developer primarily interested in best practices and human interaction with computers; and the second is Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen by Scott Hanselman, a web [...]

I’ve been trying to post this for a while but I’ve never liked how I’ve written it. I don’t want to come across sarcastic or superior but I do want bring across the importance of changing from poor coding. Now after almost a month I’m just going to say it.
Do not persist your [...]

Yes, I have an Xbox 360 and I’m loving it. More than just a console it is my DVD player and music centre (using Windows Media Connect); and I’m determined to buy Media Centre when I get paid at the end of the month so I can stream movies from my PC to my [...]

Here’s a quick post to let you know that I’ve uploaded my demo for the XNA Overview talk I gave at rAge 2006. It includes 3 game components: My grid on the X-axis, a free look camera and, new, a simple menu component which takes a collection of menu options at design time and [...]

I thought this was brilliant; you have to be a South African to appreciate the humour. You can check out other cartoons by the artist here.

The dust has settled from the stampeding hordes attending rAge, various opinions and poll have been collated and, more importantly, all the photos have been uploaded!
While there was quite a lot going on at the expo the most outstanding feature was the Game.Dev stand and the announcement of the NAG Game.Dev Comp 10 [...]

September 25 – October 9 : SignupsOctober 9 – December 9: ContestDecember 9 – December 16: Voting
Go to XBOX 360 Homebrew for more information.
I’ve entered and I’m making a 2D multiplayer co-op clickfest type game which you can monitor on my game blog on Xbox Homebrew (although I will be posting [...]

For my demo on an overview of XNA I wanted to build a menu game component which a developer could design at design-time. I wanted to expose a collection of menu items in the Property Window of Visual Studio when the user added my game component to his game (very briefly you can think of [...]