Machaira's Space

Yes, I've been slacking off again, but for the past week I had an excuse (kinda). I was at the Microsoft MVP Summit learning about all the cool stuff that's coming and playing with my new Zune. :)

All kinds of silly (and not so silly) ideas were tossed around by the XNA MVPs and I threw together one of them - Endurance. It's a silly little game, but knowing the competitive nature of gamers, someone will keep it going for wayyyyy too long. :D

Our friend George was the originator of this one, so go blame him if you'd like.

Channel 10 has been giving XNA GS some love for a while now. Laura Foy made another post last night that you can check out here. Hit the XNA tag on the post for more good stuff.

The bad news would be for those 2 or 3 people that were following my RPG series and waiting for the next part. I'm afraid that series is going to be discontinued. :(  The good news is that I'm starting a much larger version of it. More info will follow soon. :)

I've been fiddling around with this RPG and associated book/text since my VB 6 days. It's great that it'll finally see the light of day.

Check out the latest issue (April 08) of the Official Xbox Magazine. On page 54 you'll notice that The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai game created with XNA Game Studio is included in the list of upcoming Xbox Live Arcade games. Very nice. Another known commercial  XNA GS game, Schizoid, is also included on that page. It looks like XNA Game Studio is set to take over the gaming industry, especially come the end of this year when we'll have the ability to publish XNA GS games to Live Arcade. :)

Or a thousand HP in this case: