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Citizen Scientist
Installing XNA 3.0 Game Studio getting ready to build a Christmas Gift!
It's Christmas time and what better thing to do than to build a game to give away as a Christmas...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 11/04/2008
Error Handling or Exception Handling
In writing code, error handling is important, and it is often overlooked when studying in...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/01/2008
Using XNA
XNA, this is not a three letter acronym, XNA is three letters that stands for FUN and creating FUN...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/19/2008
Creating a web presence, part 2
Creating Videos are an important in improving your web presence. Google YouTube is a popular way to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/03/2008
Creating a web presence
As Dan Waters points on his excellent blog post about working in the game industry, you have to be...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/29/2008
What you need to get to start on Web and Video/Console Game Design
Here are the items you will need to have to follow along with this blog, for college students...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/28/2008
Sam Stokes writes about XNA development
My plan is to post a blog entry to this site twice a week for the next 16 weeks. The syllabus for...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/26/2008
Zune: Getting your Zune software ready to load a game
To get the XNA GSE 3.0 CTP it is at this site (click to link): Link to XNA GSE 3.0 CTP[i] Once you...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/09/2008
New Zune Review: Create games on the Zune
Wow, with the new CTP release of the XNA Game Studio 3.0 you can create games that work on the Zune....
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/07/2008
Pong in 5 Minutes and a careful analysis of Point
Investigating the Point concept in XNA and Pong What is the Point in XNA? Take a look at this video,...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/03/2008
Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, or just change the curriculum?
Alfred Thompson discusses the concept of a Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, and I have been...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/11/2008
Code Snippets: Again with the code snippets
Well the space aliens were asking me about code snippets again, and they were curious if they had to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/31/2007
Pong: The adventure begins again, join in NOW, ADD Graphics
To use code snippets make sure to download the file attachment to this blog! Use the text to follow...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/29/2007
Code Snippets for PONG: part 70 of gazillion
How do you create Code Snippets, and what are they?[i] Ok, ok, the space aliens are talking to me...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/28/2007
Building an XNA Game part 300 of a gazillion or so parts
I lost my aluminum foil hat in Nov. and have been under direct control of space aliens, and they...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/12/2007
Building an XNA Game that will run on XBox, part 4 of gazillion
Well, let's take a look at our next component, we got the Blue Screen Game (that is: A cornflower...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/10/2007
The Imagine Cup: Imagine That!
As I write about communications with aliens, I have found out about the Imagine Cup, and my...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/08/2007
Building an XNA Game part 2 of a gazillion or so parts
Let's see if my aluminum foil hat is in position...yes it is. At the end of the last post you should...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/30/2007
Building an XNA game and having fun!
Ok, ok, I have been having some mental issues, now that I have repaired my aluminum foil hat, and...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/29/2007
Getting into Game Design
As a student, when you look at the material on the MSDN sites, it can be difficult to determine what...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/27/2007
Escape Velocity, Artificial Intelligence and Space Aliens
It appears that the one of the MoteAI coming in from interstellar space is changing its orbit so...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/19/2007
Artificial Intelligence: Fixing the Education system
Could cognitive artificial intelligence fix the K-12 education system in the US? How would that...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/16/2007
Artificial Intelligence in games: Looking at Turing's first article on machine intelligence
Let’s take a look at the writings of Alvin Turing on machine intelligence. What does this have to do...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/10/2007
Having fun with Artificial Intelligence
As schools that I work with are moving to add some game design to the curriculum, one of the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 05/07/2007
Computer related jobs for college graduates in the US
There IS NO shortage of computer related jobs in the US. These are the numbers that are INCREASES of...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/20/2006