Topic: Microsoft Teaches You to Make Games (Read 143 times)

Xbox-Scene · « **on:** December 29, 2005, 10:58:00 PM »

Microsoft Teaches You to Make Games-- Posted by XanTium on December 30 00:51 EST
It's not Xbox(360)-specific, but still interesting ... from microsoft.com:

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If you have always wanted to develop cutting-edge video games but are just getting started, tune in to our 11 free webcasts. Learn the concepts of 3-D video game production as instructors from DigiPen Institute of Technology demonstrate the key stages of developing a game engine using Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition, a new development environment for beginner programmers. Learn how to handle backgrounds, objects, and collisions. In addition, these webcasts provide a primer for handling artificial intelligence in your game, along with multiple levels and additional character functionality.

View our library of on-demand webcasts to learn more about 2-D game development by working with the top-down shooter game Star Trooper, and also learn about community-based Project Hoshimi.

The webcasts "Introduction to 2-D Video Game Development" and "Project Hoshimi" are already available. The 11 "Introduction to 3-D Video Game Development" webcasts will start Jan. 16th till Feb. 7th 2006.
Check it out on microsoft.com (news via joystiq.com/shacknews.com)

CattyKid · « **Reply #1 on:** December 29, 2005, 11:54:00 PM »

Sounds pretty interesting. Maybe we could make some cheap little games for Xbox with what we were taught by MS! Now wouldn't that be jovial.

Avenger 2.0 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 30, 2005, 03:17:00 AM »

Nice. I'm certainly going to view them.

Ecrofirt · « **Reply #3 on:** December 30, 2005, 08:08:00 AM »

Such crappy times. I'll be in classes for half of these.

JbOnE · « **Reply #4 on:** December 30, 2005, 05:12:00 PM »

they'll be great for learning methods and concepts from digipen students and faculty - but the lessons are all in c#. so it's not going to be something directly applicable to xbox game programming, rather something you can learn from and apply to xbox development. but no doubt i'll be tuning in for them, and getting me a little lego man looking figure

...and for Ecrofirt, you can register on MS.com to download the casts and code samples after they have aired - so you don't have to worry about missing them

Ecrofirt · « **Reply #5 on:** December 31, 2005, 01:46:00 AM »

QUOTE(JbOnE @ Dec 30 2005, 07:19 PM)

...and for Ecrofirt, you can register on MS.com to download the casts and code samples after they have aired - so you don't have to worry about missing them (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

If this were a week ago, I'd tell you you just saved Christmas!

Sirusdv · « **Reply #6 on:** January 02, 2006, 03:29:00 AM »

I'm wondering who the instructors are..

(I'm a DigiPen student.)

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