• Spy Game Design – Agent Specialties
• Spy Game Design – Inventory and Related Areas
• Spy Game Design – Assignments/Missions
• Spy Game Design–Death
• Spy Game Design – Advancement
• Spy Game Design – Combat
• Spy Game Design – Identities

And, compared to the AppBuh Forums mess his forums are alive and kicking.

Hopefully, in SharpDX unlike any other DirectX .NET APIs, this code has been written to be consistent over the whole generated code, and was carefully designed to be quite efficient… but still, It has obviously a cost, and we need to know it!

Spoiler: The offerings Microsoft has in store are, by far, slower than SlimDX/SharpDX.

In other news: There is a thread over in the AppBuhAppHub forums praising the XNA MVPs. We here in the barracks fully support that effort – mostly due to the fact that Captain ZSquare has access to various arms here and we lost the keys to lock up the arsenal… – so you might head over to add to the +1 (none of the Google +1 stuff) choir.

First, there’s Michael B. “Concise” McLaughlin of Bob Taco Industries fame. Expect even more words coming from this man and his blog (and now his forums).

Next up comes the John “The Pale Impaled” Defenbaugh, joining Jim “The Closer” Perry, armed with his shut gunshotgun the threads will fall left and right like clay pigeons. Luckily he still ain’t havin’ the permissions.

The third one is MIA currently… [Update: OK, our intelligentintelligence services managed to get ahold of his name now, Dr. Minh-Triet TRAN, but not many more details…]

Lets hope thisthese guys can fulfill the demands of the community…

[Update: Moo]

With that out of the way here are the nominations for next Friday’s XNA Notes (in no particular order):

Jim “Still Not Evil” Perry shares an updated XNA 4.0 for Windows version of the Game State Manager sample.

Nick “MVP” Gravelyn breaks the word about a “solid way to handle trial [Ed.: not trail, as initially stated] mode on the Windows Phone 7” written by Dean Johnson.

There’s a new Ad SDK for XNA on Windows Phone 7 in town, seeking help for a very closed beta.

And last but not least, Jason Swearingen still participates in the #AltDevBlogADay, this time covering Spatial Partitioning. Part 1: Survey of spatial partitioning solutions.

A closing paragraph with the sole reason to have the text flow below the photo and bear no real content. The same can be said about this link to The ZBuffer. However, this The cake is a lie does have a meaning…

Weighing in at 552 pages and featuring a foreward [sicObs.] by the legendary James Silva (Ska Studios, creator of The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, I MAED A GAME W1TH Z0MB1ES 1NIT!!!1, and more...) this book gives thorough coverage of XNA 4.0 as it relates to Windows Phone 7.

Continue reading more at Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development: Creating Games using XNA Game Studio 4 (named in true Microsoft style and spirit…)

Via the forums comes the word that a new beta release of Natur is available. You do not know what Natur is? Well, neither do I so here’s the blurb from CodePlex:

Natur allows you to easily create and manage maps in 3D using the Xna framework. As you build your map, you can enter simulation mode at any time; this will activate bounds, physics, and any game logic such as animations and triggers. The following are currently supported:

• Animations
• Bounding Systems
• Interactive Objects
• Lighting
• Locations
• Physic Simulation
• Spawn Points
• Texture Palettes
• Triggers

Meanwhile Andy “Ratava” Dunn ponders self publishing, asking for feedback.

Anyway, George W. “Bugbear” Clingerman feels unhated and so did Vincente “Bête Noire” Cartas, Chris G. “Daggers Drawn” Williams started something, Andy “Jealous as a Barbary Pigeon” Dunn likes to do the opposite, Charles “Demoniacal” Humphrey ain’t impressed, Jim “Philophilosophos” Perry reviews movies.

George W. “Knockando” Clingerman shares links, has a heart of gold and is in good company.

Glenn “Miltonduff” Wilson returns to XNA while Andy “Inchgower” Dunn keeps on runnin’.

Ed. Stalking is my business and business is bad. Moo?

Meanwhile, on a Saturday night at 2:20 Pieter “Dajal” Germishuys talks about drinking coffee. The day after Andy “Blonde d'Aquitaine” Dunn runs 50 miles.

Chris G. “Red Angus” Williams fears small people, frags for charity and Goerge W. “Dølafe” Clingerman downplays his contribution.

John “Wagyū” Sedlak needs.

[Ed.: Somehow the relevance of the subjects actions of this very series is not what it used to be, resulting in a sort of dilemma of what to actually share here. Today's nick names ain’t the most inspired either…]

Intermission: most of the personas featured in this series are part of the preferable category mentioned at The Problem With MVPs – and, frankly, I cannot name one that would fall into the other category right now…

Vincente “Curan” Cartas battens in memories of the MVP Summit, Chad “Oswald” Carter repudiates his fetish and Chris G. “Edgar” Williams meets Kharma and has a Game Design Dilemma, asks Nine Questions.

Meanwhile, George W. “Fool” Clingerman is back at work, accepts meetings when there’s coffee and doesn’t know who he is. Richard “Caius” Fine knows himself.

Catalin “A Herald” Zima will be with us for yet another year and so will Pieter “Old Man” Germishuys. But at the end of the week, only George W. “Fool” Clingerman counts.