Posts tagged XnaChallenge

XNA Challenge: Simian Escape

by Kyle Orland (Mar 7th 2007 5:56PM)

Jonathon Stevens and Patrick Glanville did not take what you'd call the traditional path into game development. After 12 or 13 years software tools for business, the pair decided it was time for a change. Luckily, the community at Garage Games helped them transfer their skills from business ...

XNA Challenge: Final Stand

by Kyle Orland (Mar 7th 2007 7:45AM)

Josh Butterworth is probably better known to NeoGAF readers as Ghost, the author of XNA space shooter Last Alarm. The game got him noticed not just by the NeoGAF community but also by Microsoft, who invited him to take part in the XNA Challenge to create a game from scratch in four days at the Game ...

Microsoft's four-day XNA Challenge

by Kyle Orland (Mar 6th 2007 10:30PM)

Game developers are used to tight deadlines and pressure-packed schedules. Even so, Microsoft's XNA Challenge at this year's Game Developers Conference pushes the idea of quick turnaround to a ridiculous extreme. Four "teams" (two of them are single people) have been thrown into GDC's crowded, ...