Dark Codex Studios and Tumbleweed Interactive are Co-Operating on a game project named MyBeast.

 

The Developer Journal from the game have just been released, and will be updated frequently.

The journal can be found here: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=8240.0

 

Are you are going to Game On tomorrow? Be sure to visit our stand!

 

Me and Thomas Beswick will be standing there all evening, providing you with information about cool technology:

- What is Game Camp?

- How you can start creating games using XNA

- Provide you with a complete game and source-code

- Project NATAL

- Lionhead's Milo

 

 

See you there!

Hei alle sammen,


Vi har den glede av å invitere alle spillinteresserte til Dataforeningens faggruppe Game On- Faggruppen sitt nettverksmøte torsdag den 17. September klokka 16:45. 

Arrangementet er gratis.

Her vil det bli presentasjoner og mulighet for å stifte bekjentskap med store aktører innen spillbransjen.
Ta gjerne med venner og bekjente, etter foredraget blir det en mulighet for pils og nettverksbygging med personer fra spillbransjen.
Mer detaljer og påmelding finner du her:  http://www.dataforeningen.no/index.php?id=4625730

Stedet er Dubliner og registreringen starter 16:45

Program:
Presentasjon av Den Norske Dataforening
John Walle, Den Norske Dataforening

Din nye hverdag med fremtidens spillteknologi
Temaer: Hva skjer når teknologien bryter grensene mellom fact og fiction? Hvilke samfunnsmessige konsekvenser får vi nå skolene bytter ut læreren og tar i bruk spill i opplæring og at forsvaret rekrutterer gamere som jagerflyvere?
Eirik Newth, cand. scient med hovedfag i teoretisk astrofysikk

Tumbleweed Interactive om dagens spillbransje
Temaer: Hvorfor lager Tumbleweed Interactive spill?
Hva er de mest spennende trendene i spillverden i dag?
Kristoffer Jetmundsen, Tubleweed Interactive
 
Gamecamp kommer og holder XNA-stand samtidig som flere andre utviklere vil vise frem teknologi og spill. (Det blir også mulighet for å teste Break a Leg)

Sted: Dubliner.
Tid: 17.september. Kl 17.00 - 20.00. Registrering fra kl 16.45

Mage Defender: Remake is now on CodePlex, and can be found on the following URL: http://magedefender.codeplex.com/

 

From there you can download the newest sourcecode when we release it, and download the newest releases.

 

 

Have fun!

 

 

For those of you who didn't know, one of the best games ever made is out on PS3( Since GameCon in Germany ): Final Fantasy VII.

 

I still got my original PS1 game( Yes, you can play PS1 games on PS3 now.. ), but for those of you who want to experience this great adventure, go to the PS Store and buy it for a very cheap price compared to what you will get ;)

 

 

Mage Defender Remake
Today, we released the newest version of Mage Defender, created in XNA as apart of Thomas Beswicks and my "Creating a game from A-Z" presentation held at Game Camp, 03.09.2009.

Note: The download-URL for these files will change( and be updated ) once I find another host.

 

Credits: 

Programming: Petri Wilhelmsen

Idea: Petri Wilhelmsen, Thomas Beswick

Art: Thomas Beswick

Music: Egil Hasting aka. Higen

Special thanks to:
Tuuli Savolainen, Laura Marie Tan, Sindre Rian, Victor Bredholt, Ragnar Fatland

The game is much more advanced than ever, with full 3D-Cel shading, animations and particles. The game got many adcanced spells, AI, bosses and a short story mode.

Made Defender Remake for PC and XBox360.

 

 

Here are some more screenshots from Mage Defender Remake:

 

So, as I promised, the game will be released with it's full source code.
There are some small things that I need to change before I upload the game, but it will be up today or tomorrow.
A new post will be added with the link, and a codeplex page will be created for the project.

 

Download ( XNA 3.1 ):
Source( 63mb )
Binary Installer( 29mb )

Note: The URL for these files will change( and be updated ) once I find another host.

 

 

If you are missing a refernece( SkinnedModelPipline ) follow these steps in order to fix this issue: 

1 - Download the missing file by clicking here

2 - Add the SkinnedModelPipeline.dll file to the Referenced under Content in the Mage Defender project:

3 - Compile and run!

 

 

Thats it, please tell me if you still have any problems with this!

 

A history on Mage Defender

Hi,

 

I was going trough my old project files when cleaining up my drives today, and found some old games that me and my friends have created back in the old days.

I decided to put them up here, to save them and share them with you.

 

Enjoy :P

 

 

 

As you might have experienced when using XNA, some of the render states are set incorrectly when rendering sprites with SpriteBatch or when rendering a model using a shader. Remember, SaveState is a heavy process so use it only when you really need this, try setting the render states manually instead!

 

There are many posts about this issue, but I will create another myself, as I came across another problem( see last solution point ).

 

Let's take a look on common solutions to this problem.

My render states get distorted after rendering sprites/textures with SpriteBatch

To solve this, you can set the SaveStateMode to SaveState when calling the Begin() method of SpriteBatch.

spriteBatch.Begin(SpriteBlendMode.None, SpriteSortMode.Immediate, SaveStateMode.SaveState);
// Render your sprites
spriteBatch.End();

If SaveStateMode is set to SaveState, a StateBlock object will capture the current state of you rendering device. Once you call End(), the StateBlock will call Apply(), witch applies the state captured earlier.
This usually works in most situations.

My render states get distorted after rendering a model using a shader/effect
To solve this, you can set the SaveStateMode to SaveState when calling the Begin() method of Effect.
effect.Begin(SaveStateMode.SaveState);

Again, If SaveStateMode is set to SaveState, a StateBlock object will capture the current state of you rendering device. Once you call End(), the StateBlock will call Apply(), witch applies the state captured earlier.
This usually works in most situations.


I am saving the state on my sprites/models, but the renderstates still get distorted!??
Ok, this is the problem I had today. I was rendering a 3D model, and after rendering it, everything got distorted..
I tried, just for fun, to call spriteBatch.Begin(...SaveState), render the model, and calling spriteBatch.End().
This worked by my model got some big problems related to the Z-buffer/Depth buffer and so on, so the model got pretty ugly.

I also tried to set the SaveStateMode to SaveState in Effect.Begin(..) and in mesh.Draw(SaveStateMode.SaveState); but without any luck..

So, finally, I treid to save the state manually, and to my suprise, it worked very well! :D
To save the state manually, add the following lines of code to your application:

StateBlock stateBlock = new StateBlock(GraphicsDevice); // pass in your GraphicsDevice here.
stateBlock.Capture(); // Saves the state.

//Do your magic, like mesh.Draw();

stateBlock.Apply(); // restores the state again.
stateBlock.Dispose(); // remember to call dispose!


This method works on the computer. When I run it on an xbox360( not sure if this is the reason ) I get an DriverInternalErrorException. If anyone know how to solve this, I would be really glad if you send me the solution!!

 

Good luck!