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Hi, welcome to a new website for games development related articles, news, gossip and whole lot more.
Please mind our dust, we're just getting started.
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Here is a run down of what we have or will be coming in the near future.
- XNA & General game development related articles from around the community.
- Affiliated open source projects produced by the people behind this website.
- The Week in Code.
- Discussion forums
- Shader Challenge (ITS COMMING!!)
- Game Feature Replicator (ITS COMMING!!)
- Shout outs to the community of other open source projects and killer games.
We already have a range of articles available but we want more. please send your articles to articles@conkerjo.com
The moderators will hopefully be providing a wave of articles, news and info for you to keep up to date with XNA topics, hot games and other great stuff.
We have a range of affiliated projects for you to look at too, IceCream, TinyEngine and BRAINS which are all XNA based open source libraries. These are developed by one or more of the people behind Sgt. Conker.
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Watch this space.
XNA 7 Day Challenge
Nick "the crazy" Gravelyn has posted on his blog about a new challenge he's set up called the XNA 7 Day Challenge. We're a bit late, ITS COMMING!!! on sunday. He's even set up a website see "the crazy"
We can't make the cut this time. But maybe we'll try the next one. Can't wait to see the entries.
The XNA 7 Day Challenge is as follows.
Challenge #1 Dual Buttons
Theme/Rules:
Your game is only allowed two buttons or keys. You cannot use triggers, thumbsticks, or other analog input. A directional pad can be used, but each direction counts as one button. You can use these buttons in combination, context, or any other mechanism in your game; the only requirement is that only two physical binary inputs are utilized in the game.
Challenge Time:
October 25, 2009 – November 1st, 2009 (Entries due by 12:00 PST GMT-8 on November 2nd, 2009).
To Enter:
Email your entry to contact@xna7day.com with the subject line “Challenge 1 Entry”.
Please see the About page for full rules/guidelines for the challenge. Since this challenge was started with this post, those rules are also valid for this first challenge.