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Re: Movipa Mini Game - Now Available!

shiony — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:51:26 GMT

play crash that seem to happen randomly .

"games for windows - LIVE proxy process terminated unexpectedly"

Re: Movipa Mini Game - Now Available!

Leglaw — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:45:21 GMT

I'm getting a compile-time error:

Microsoft.Xna.Framework.NoSuitableGraphicsDeviceException was unhandled
Message="Could not find a Direct3D device compatible with the current device preferences."
Source="Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game"
StackTrace:
       at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GraphicsDeviceManager.FindBestPlatformDevice(Boolean anySuitableDevice)
       at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GraphicsDeviceManager.FindBestDevice(Boolean anySuitableDevice)
       at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GraphicsDeviceManager.ChangeDevice(Boolean forceCreate)
       at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GraphicsDeviceManager.Microsoft.Xna.Framework.IGraphicsDeviceManager.CreateDevice()
       at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.Run()
       at Movipa.MovipaGame.Main() in C:\...\Movipa\Movipa\MovipaGame.cs:line 255

What are the min system specs for this game? I have dx 9.0c.

Re: Movipa Mini Game - Coming Thursday (7/31 PST)

McLovin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:53:19 GMT

Apparently the layout tool relies on MS XML 4.0 as well, which you can get here.

Re: Movipa Mini Game - Coming Thursday (7/31 PST)

EdAndersenUK — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:08:33 GMT

Woah! I spent months working on a Flash -> XNA renderer to render sprite scene animations and a Japanese company goes and releases this amazing tool for free..

I don't know weather to laugh or cry! haha

Re: Movipa Mini Game - Coming Thursday (7/31 PST)

Jenkmeister — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:44:14 GMT

The installer application that was available for download has been replaced with a zip file that you'll be able to extract to your desired location.

Thanks for your patience!

Re: Movipa Mini Game - Coming Thursday (7/31 PST)

Jenkmeister — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:52:02 GMT

Sorry about the install issues - this tool is a 3rd party one that we linked to. We are working with the developers to get it fixed up.

The following has been added to the download page:

Please note that running the download of the tool will initially bring up a dialog which may not render all the buttons and characters correctly. This is actually an installation dialog. Select the path you wish to install the layout tool into and click OK. Then navigate to that path and you should find the layout tool installed. We are working to correct this installer and will update this page when it is ready.

Re: Movipa Mini Game - Coming Thursday (7/31 PST)

Brent Lamb — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:34:12 GMT

Jim Perry:

The layout tool doesn't appear to work, not under Vista at least. :(

Clicking the OK button closes the window and nothing else appears to happen.

It tricked me too, what it does is "installs" the program to the directory in that dialog. If you got to that directory you will see a Layout tool folder with the real exe.

Re: Movipa Mini Game - Coming Thursday (7/31 PST)

Jim Perry — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:50:20 GMT

The layout tool doesn't appear to work, not under Vista at least. :(

Clicking the OK button closes the window and nothing else appears to happen.

Re: Movipa Mini Game - Coming Thursday (7/31 PST)

Jenkmeister — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:09:47 GMT

Movipa is now available for download here: http://creators.xna.com/en-us/minigame/movipa

Enjoy!

Re: Movipa Mini Game - Coming Thursday (7/31 PST)

Jenkmeister — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:11:52 GMT

Working on getting everything up there right now in fact :)

Re: Movipa Mini Game - Coming Thursday (7/31 PST)

JamesH — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:06:07 GMT

Jenkmeister:
See you tomorrow!

Is it tomorrow yet? :)

Just kidding, I'm sure it will be up at some point but figured I'd post this just to let you know there are people eager to see the new samples (and thankful for them!).

Cheers,

- James

Re: Movipa Mini Game - Coming Thursday (7/31 PST)

Jenkmeister — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:10:26 GMT

A few more screenshots before tomorrow's release!

See you tomorrow!

Re: Movipa Mini Game - Coming Thursday (7/31 PST)

Antony Kancidrowski — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:02:30 GMT

More code to get "my teeth into"... Great! :)

Movipa Mini Game - Now Available!

Jenkmeister — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:39:51 GMT

Introducing Movipa!

Movipa is a complete mini game for XNA Game Studio. The project comes ready to compile and run, and it's easy to customize with a little bit of C# programming. You are also free to use the source code as the basis for your own XNA Game Studio game projects, and to share your work with others. Movipa was developed by AGENDA/Zenryokutei.

Movipa is a puzzle game involving moving images that demonstrate the following components:

Non-continuous rendering of puzzle tiles via texture coordinates
Asynchronous asset loading
Game state saving and loading
Multiple gameplay modes
Complex scene-description system for layered 2D scenes.
Skinned animation system, from the Skinning Animation sample on the XNA Creators Club website.

Movipa will be released on Thursday (PST) and will be available to all creators. In the mean time, check out the screenshots below:

More screenshots to come during the week!