The Gaming invasion of Bollywood : Microsoft Xbox 360 and Yash Raj Films partner for Bachna Ae Haseeno

Microsoft Xbox 360 and its biggest selling exclusive titles, will be making a huge appearance in the super hit movie of the season Bachna Ae Haseeno
 
Bachna Ae Haseeno, the forthcoming movie title from the Yash Raj banner stars Randir Kapoor in the lead, playing the role of an Xbox 360 game developer. In the movie, [...]

Game development industry in Sri Lanka.

Ten years back when you heard about Software industry in Sri Lanka, that’s the same feeling that you get with the game industry in Sri Lanka as of now .But now In Sri Lanka we have big software industry with big software companies. Still in Sri Lanka we couldn`t see a game industry. But game [...]

XNA GAME STUDIO 3.0 beta released.

list of the changes in new release
Zune

Compatibility with the upcoming Zune 3.0 Firmware release. Please note that the XNA Game Studio 3.0 CTP will no longer work once you have upgraded your Zune device to the 3.0 firmware.
Improved deployment stability.
Support for Zune deployment on Windows Vista x64 Systems!
You can now use the Remote Performance [...]

Using VB.NET in XNA

This example show you how to use VB.NET in your XNA game.
Because by default XNA supports C#.NET
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/VBXNA

Debugging a 3d game.

With the Visual Studio integration in XNA,Now you can debug 3d or 2d game and see what really happening inside the memory.
Also you can see how 3d and 2d data being proceed in.NET CLR.
GraphicDevice manager Class

Model class -store 3d model data.

 
Matrix array -Store all 3d data for transformations.

 
 
example I use in this [...]

Microsoft Popfly

To create mesh up and games more easier way.
You can create  mashup without writing a line of code. Combine different web sites together to form cool, new creations.
Also now  you can create fun, sophisticated, and addicting games without writing any code. Try it out, and have fun!
http://www.popfly.com/
checkout this facebook application to I created using popfly.
http://apps.facebook.com/udithaapp/
 
 

F#

F#, a functional programming language for the .NET platform, combines the strengths of functional programming with the breadth of frameworks and tools available with .NET and Visual Studio.
F# September CTP now available for download
Microsoft F#, September 2008 Community Technology Preview
MSDN F# Developer center
F# IN MSDN
Simple F# Game using WPF

Game Development with C# .NET

This session is about how to make Video games using C# .NET.
Agenda
*Introduction to video games.
*Designing a video game.
*Console technologies.
*Adopting game development in Sri Lanka.
*Game development with C#.NET (XNA).
*Making a 3d game in 30 minutes.
speaker-
uditha sampath bandara
Microsoft Student Ambassador

http://uditha.wordpress.com/
location -7th floor SLIIT malabe.
Facebook event-http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=25495497631

SLIIT Game dev Community

SLIIT Game dev community was recently formed under HEDRA – Programming Community.
 

http://moodle.sliit.lk/course/view.php?id=152
[only sliit student can access the link]