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All Hail the Old and the New – The MonoGame Content Builder Tool

by Simon Jackson

All Hail the Old and the New – The MonoGame Content Builder Tool

An XNA Animated Sprite Component for Windows Phone, PC, and Xbox

by Joel Ivory Johnson

A proof of concept for an animated sprite component that I am developing to run in XNA projects on Windows Phone, PC, and Xbox. The component allows animation information to be a part of the project's content and is a step in the direction of allowing an artist to be completely over creating animati

Animating single bones in a Blender 3D model with XNA

by Alan Boldock

Many available demonstrations and tutorials demonstrate how to play an animation generated in a 3D application. This tutorial demonstrates how to manipulate a 3D model using only the code to find and manipulate Bones within a simple 3D model generated in Blender.

Be Careful of Those SPECIAL Names in Unity

by Simon Jackson

Be careful of those SPECIAL names in Unity

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All Hail the Old and the New – The MonoGame Content Builder Tool

by Simon Jackson

All Hail the Old and the New – The MonoGame Content Builder Tool

An XNA Animated Sprite Component for Windows Phone, PC, and Xbox

by Joel Ivory Johnson

Animating single bones in a Blender 3D model with XNA

by Alan Boldock

Be Careful of Those SPECIAL Names in Unity

by Simon Jackson

Be careful of those SPECIAL names in Unity

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All Hail the Old and the New – The MonoGame Content Builder Tool

by Simon Jackson

All Hail the Old and the New – The MonoGame Content Builder Tool

An XNA Animated Sprite Component for Windows Phone, PC, and Xbox

by Joel Ivory Johnson

Animating single bones in a Blender 3D model with XNA

by Alan Boldock

BlendedTexture2D

by Daniel M. Kane

A RenderTarget2D-derived class to blend textures at runtime that internally deals with some common headaches.

Creating a 3D Space Invaders Game From Scratch in XNA

by Judah Gabriel Himango

A series of articles meant to build a 3D space invaders game from the ground up using Microsoft's XNA technology.

Driving Simulation in XNA

by AmitDey

A Tutorial to develop a driving simulator using XNA Game Studio 2.0

Fighter Space Ship Game

by sandeepkumar.sgnr

As the name suggests, you will be driving a space ship in galaxy and protecting yourself from meteors. Now to show ultrabook capability with the game I will be using touch and accelerometer.

Floor Detection using Kinect

by Vangos

Floor Detection using Kinect

Getting Started With Intel Realsense 3D Technology

by Pooja Baraskar

This Article will help you in Getting Started with Intel Realsense 3D Technology

Home Automation with Microsoft Kinect Point Cloud and Speech Recognition

by Dan Thyer

Use a Microsoft Kinect to control the home automation in the house. Lights can be turned on an off from speech recognition or from pointing at them and waving your other hand one way to turn on and the other way to turn off.

Home Automation with Netduino and Kinect

by Dan Thyer

Remote control a squirt gun, open the garage, and water the garden all through .net

Hosting XNA in a Window

by Marc Clifton

My journey to unravel and discover a solution for hosting XNA in a WinForm UserControl

How to perform fading transitions on Textures in XNA 4.0 using Interpolation Timers

by CJ Kent

Create an Interpolating Timer and use it to fade textures in and out in XNA 4.0

Journey of Windows 8 game (SkyWar) for Intel App Up using MonoGame Framework

by sandeepkumar.sgnr

This article is all about my experience of developing a SkyWar game for CodeProject’s Intel AppUp competition.

Journey of Windows 8 Game (SkyWar) for Intel App Up Using MonoGame Framework

by sandeepkumar.sgnr

Journey of Windows 8 game SkyWar for Intel App Up competition

Kinect is Dead! Now What?

by Vangos

Kinect is dead! Now what?

Kinect Joint Rotation – The Definitive Guide

by Vangos

How to measure the orientation of a joint around each axis (X, Y, Z)

Kinect v2 Point Cloud Scanner and Viewer

by Edgar Maass

Display a Point Cloud grabbed by the Microsoft Kinect v2 in a OpenGL control

Learning XNA 2D Engine IceCream With 1945 Demo Project

by Tyler Forsythe

IceCream1945 is a demonstration of XNA and the IceCream 2D library in a 2D top-down scrolling shooter similar to 1942 for the NES.

MarbleMaze

by Ayush001

Traditional game which becomes more interetsing.

Multithreaded Kinect Stream Saver Application

by Elham Dolatabadi

The application allows users to record and store Kinect streams at 30 frames per second to a folder.

Non Deadlocking Read/Write Locker and Thread-Safe Collections

by Tamus

A ReaderWriterLock that cannot deadlock, and thread-safe example collections

Point cloud alignment: ICP methods compared

by Edgar Maass

Different methods to align (aka stich, register) point clouds via the ICP (Iterative Closest Point) method

Resume the User’s Music after MediaPlay

by dolhaig

How to Resume the User's music after we played a video or audio from our Silverlight/XNA WP7 Application.

Start C/C++ Projects FAST

by coder_of_salvation

Skip the 'starting from scratch' & Makefile bullsh*t, this will boost your creativity

The Bip Buffer - The Circular Buffer with a Twist

by Simon Cooke

A bi-partite circular buffer for high performance buffering, where it comes from, and why you'd want to use it.

The simplest possible memory leak detector

by Bachowny

C++ code showing how to track memory usage to avoid memory leaks

UNITY 3D – Game Programming – Part 3

by Vahe Karamian

The third article in a series to discuss Unity 3D and how to get started with your own 3D projects.

XNA & Beyond: The Path to VS 2008

by Pedro Güida

The article shows how to embed a XNA-based game into a WinForms control with ease. Also, it explains how to integrate an XNA GS project into VS2008 (this IDE is not currently supported by XNA GS), and in turn, to be able to use WPF with your XNA-based creation.

XNA Batched Text Output

by Bob Bradley, Kurt Wesner

A batched text output component that is useful for debugging XNA projects.

XNA Billiards Visual Demo: An example of XNA content processing and 3D rendering

by Inaki Ayucar

This article is an example of visual rendering and content processing with XNA, and a good start for those who want to start learning XNA.

XNA integration inside WPF

by Valentin Billotte

Another way to integrate multiple XNA scenes inside WPF.

XNA is no more, as the phoenix rises from the ashes

by Simon Jackson

We have finally reached the end of an era and the dawn of the next with the MonoGame project. The latest release has now broken its ties to the old XNA framework and stands alone.