Sgt. Conker » Jon Watte http://www.sgtconker.com We are "absolutely fine" Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:29:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Depth And Games http://www.sgtconker.com/2010/03/depth-and-games/ http://www.sgtconker.com/2010/03/depth-and-games/#comments Sat, 27 Mar 2010 07:03:52 +0000 Captain boki http://www.sgtconker.com/2010/03/depth-and-games/ Matt “Blitzkrieg” Pettino fights with the depth buffer and Charles “One” Humphrey flags bits in XNA.

Meanwhile, George W. “The Frayed Ends of Sanity” Clingerman stares at walls, not goats and Chris G. “Fade to Black” Williams says Good Night.

Glenn “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)” Wilson installs the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP finally, Jon “Escape” Watte releases a beta of kW X-port 1.4.5 for 3DS Max 2010 and in a desperate move Andy “Harvester of Sorrow” Dunn begs for common sense to be applied during peer review. Following the lead of desperation, Iñaki “Whiplash” Ayucar fulminates against clones, strongly.

John “Motorbreath” Sedlak has a new jacket, with a back, plays games, writes cryptic code. Joel “Ride the Lightning” Martinez loves LINQ and threats to release a game. Finally, Chad “Hit the Lights” Carter is a happy daddy.

]]> http://www.sgtconker.com/2010/03/depth-and-games/feed/ 3 The Brotherhood http://www.sgtconker.com/2010/02/the-brotherhood/ http://www.sgtconker.com/2010/02/the-brotherhood/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:44:58 +0000 Captain boki http://www.sgtconker.com/2010/02/the-brotherhood/ Catalin “Gone Green” Zima recycles posts on Sgt. Conker to feature John “Snow Shovel Master” Sedlak once again.

Jon “Last of the Mohicans” Watte ponders the future of PC gaming and is reflecting about the quality of his subtle way to ask questions.

Andy “Master Of The Brotherhood” Dunn will not put Chris G. “Walk Like An Egyptian” Williams onto his list, but onto the Adult Friend Finder one.

Chad “I Wrote Some Books” Carter encourages the Sarge to pick up SBARG again.

Vincente “Works On Boring Things” Cartas lobbies for Phil “The Quiet Veteran” Bourke (and so do we: IGDA members vote for Phil!).

Loïc “Epsicode And Not-A-MVP” Dansart (the Little Gamers: Teh Game chap) dropped the 1st public screenshot of his Dream Build Play entry.

Glenn “Legendary Seeker” Wilson seeks reasons for an academic XNA Code Camp in Victoria.

]]> http://www.sgtconker.com/2010/02/the-brotherhood/feed/ 1 Jim Blogs About the Content Pipeline http://www.sgtconker.com/2010/02/jim-blogs-about-the-content-pipeline/ http://www.sgtconker.com/2010/02/jim-blogs-about-the-content-pipeline/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:39:23 +0000 Captain boki http://www.sgtconker.com/2010/02/jim-blogs-about-the-content-pipeline/ Yes, that comes as a surprise: Jim “Eraser” Perry, the chap that deleted your forum posts for Very Good Reasons™, returns from the Global MVP Summit 2010 just to find his I am here for the community by the community spirit refreshed and comes out of the shadows – or, in true Phoenix fashion (that’s the mythical firebird, not the city in Arizona), arising from the ashes – with the master piece of diving deeply into the XNA Game Studio content pipeline to leverage its powers to serialize your game objects into (and out of!) XML.

In more dramatic news: George W. “End of Days” Clingerman lost his awesome – investigations if a certain J. is involved in this traumatic loss have already started: If you have any knowledge about the whereabouts of poor little Georgys awesome, please report to him immediately – and became all emo.

Meanwhile, Andy “Running Man” Dunn pleas to stop bashing the XNA MVPs, Chris G. “Predator” Williams exchanges gold for bullets and tells UPS how it is, Chad “Jingle All the Way” Carter longs for a Windows Phone 7 Series, er, phone, Glenn “Total Recall” Wilson prepares for the Azure launch, Jon “The 6th Day” Watte discovers Charles Darwin, Vincente “Collateral Damage” Cartas unboxes boxy boxes and Joel “Stay Hungry” Martinez progresses nicely.

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