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Results for the Absolutely Fine XNA Tutorial Contest

We have judged, we have analyzed the votes received from you; and now we have our winners!

The first place goes to

Rolling World Tutorial

by Christian Schlager

His prize consists of:

• One SunBurn Community License
• One License for Toon Boom Studio
• One 12-Months XNA Creator's Club Premium Subscription

The second place goes to

XNA Farseer Platform Physics Tutorial

by Roy Triesscheijn

For his hardwork, he receives:

• One License for Toon Boom Studio
• One 4-Months XNA Creator's Club Premium Subscription

And finally, the third place goes to :

Programming your first XNA 4.0 game for PC, Xbox 360 & Windows Phone 7: Pong

by Thomas "Mister Helmut" Altenburger

He also receives:

• One License for Toon Boom Studio
• One 4-Months XNA Creator's Club Premium Subscription

Congratulation to all of our winners. They deserve it!

We'd like to thank our sponsors for their support:

• Toon Boom Animation Inc. for the Toon Boom Licenses
• Synapse Gaming for the SunBurn Community License
• Cpt. ZSquare, for the Creator's Club subscription codes
• Everyone in the Sgt. Conker barracks for the hard work they put in

And another set of thanks and applause go to all of our participants, who worked hard to bring us all the articles.

Here they are again, in all their glory:

• Arbitrary Shaped Secondary 2D Viewports, by Harry Trautmann
• Character Movement, by David Kendall
• Derived Effect Classes in XNA 4.0, by Dave Carlile
• Input Playback, by Jesse Chounard
• Multiple columns with Game State Management, by Jeff Brown
• Node-Based Scripting, by Blecki
• Programming your first XNA 4.0 game for PC, Xbox 360 & Windows Phone 7: Pong, by Thomas "Mister Helmut" Altenburger
• Rolling World Tutorial, by Christian Schlager
• Scripting on the Xbox 360, Windows Phone and Beyond!, by UberGeekGames
• Shaders - Introduction, by Daniel Greenheck
• Shaders - Ambient Lighting, by Daniel Greenheck
• Shaders - Diffuse Lighting, by Daniel Greenheck
• Shaders - Specular Lighting, by Daniel Greenheck
• Shaders - Texturing, by Daniel Greenheck
• Shaders - Rim Lighting, by Daniel Greenheck
• Simple 3D Camera in XNA, by Pete Street
• Texture Modification using Render Targets, with some Stencil Buffer Action, by Dave Carlile
• Vacant Skies - Action RPG Tutorial Series, by Aaron T Foley
• WCF on the Windows Phone 7 - The How-To Guide, by Simon Jackson
• XNA Farseer Platform Physics Tutorial, by Roy Triesscheijn

About our sponsors

Toon Boom Studio is a great product for 2D animations, allowing you to use a wide range of techniques for your work, including: stop-motion animation, traditional digital animation, traditional paper animation, cut-out animation and rotoscoping. In their own words: "Toon Boom Animation offers easy to use software applications for storyboarding and animation, that perfectly fit game developers' needs. Propel your games to the next level using pre-visualization and leading-edge animation features." I found the product very easy to use, and it will be a great addition to the arsenal of your development tools.

SunBurn is a Lighting and Rendering engine built on top of our beloved XNA Framework. As the guys at Synapse Gaming say, "combining the latest lighting and rendering technology with a flexible and easy to use framework, SunBurn performs the heavy-lifting, letting you focus on your games." For a full list of features included in the SunBurn Engine, visit their site. The license we're giving out as a prize is provided by the kind people and Synapse Gaming.

About Captain ZSquare

Microsoft XNA MVP