ScriptTD

October 9th, 2011 | Posted by Michael in Games | Programming | XNA - (1 Comments)

I just realised I never posted about this. ScriptTD is a project I have been working on for the past year now, although we officially launched a couple of months ago, I’m still working on v2.0. The goal was to create a Tower Defense game engine for Windows Phone 7, allowing people with no coding … Read more

Light Pre-Pass Round 2

March 11th, 2010 | Posted by Michael in DirectX | Games | Programming | XNA - (9 Comments)

Those who have been following this blog know that I wrote an article about implementing a Light Pre-Pass renderer last year. Since then I have made numerous improvements and fixes as I have tried the system over different PC configurations. This time around I will be including those changes into the implementation, and also releasing … Read more

Robbie Bach Uni Talk

January 31st, 2010 | Posted by Michael in Games | Programming | Students | Xbox 360 - (0 Comments)

Robbie Bach, President of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices division is giving a public talk at the University of Sydney on Tuesday 9th February 2010. For any readers who are in Sydney, this would be a great event to attend. E&D covers everything from the XBOX to the Surface, even Keyboards + Mice from MS hardware. … Read more

Nebulon Now Available

July 16th, 2009 | Posted by Michael in Games | Xbox 360 | XNA - (0 Comments)

Just letting everyone who reads this know that Nebulon is now available on XBOX LIVE Community Games. The official website for the game is http://nebulon.darkomengames.co.uk and you can go through there to buy online, or find it on your XBOX 360 console. We are considering bringing this to PC, there are some things that need … Read more

Nebulon in Peer Review

July 2nd, 2009 | Posted by Michael in Games | Xbox 360 | XNA - (0 Comments)

I mentioned previously that a game by fellow DOG member DaphydTheBard was undergoing play testing. Well I am happy to report it is ready for peer review and hopefully should be out soon. If anyone has a Creators Club Premium account, it would be great if you could peer review Nebulon and help speed up … Read more

Nebulon in Playtest

June 3rd, 2009 | Posted by Michael in Games | Xbox 360 | XNA - (1 Comments)

For those of you out there with a Creators Club Premium membership, head on over to http://creators.xna.com and help us (Dark Omen Games) out by playtesting Nebulon, our first game on the service. You can see a trailer for Nebulon in my last post here, and using the normal interface on the Creators Club website, … Read more

Bioshock 2 – 9 Minutes of Awesome

May 16th, 2009 | Posted by Michael in Games | Videos - (0 Comments)

I loved the first game, and this one looks like it is going to be just as great. (If not more) Watch the video (I suggest in HD) and then go play Bioshock if you haven’t already.