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Starting a new Dev Diary about converting my DX7 game to XNA Game Studio

Last post 7/31/2008 6:13 PM by Abel Garcia Plaza. 10 replies.
  • 7/28/2008 12:29 AM

    Starting a new Dev Diary about converting my DX7 game to XNA Game Studio

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    I've got an old DX7 game I want to move over to XNA Game Studio and I thought I'd share my thoughts and experiences.

    First post is here:http://the-agent.net/blog/?p=284

    I'll post more as I start the process but I'd love any feedback you guys have about what you see so far. Leave comments here or on the post, whichever you like! I'll update at http://www.the-agent.net/blog. First step - getting my sprites drawing!

    Charles Cox
    XNA Community Content Producer | Microsoft
    http://www.the-agent.net
  • 7/28/2008 1:15 PM In reply to

    Re: Starting a new Dev Diary about converting my DX7 game to XNA Game Studio

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    Added to RSS reader list. :)
    Jim Perry - Microsoft XNA MVP
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  • 7/28/2008 5:21 PM In reply to

    Re: Starting a new Dev Diary about converting my DX7 game to XNA Game Studio

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    I has a reader! :)
    Charles Cox
    XNA Community Content Producer | Microsoft
    http://www.the-agent.net
  • 7/28/2008 5:31 PM In reply to

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    LOL, I love your Mario pitch conversation. That whole article was pretty good. And yep, I'm adding you as well. Thanks for letting us know about it and good luck on your conversion. That's going to be fun to watch. I ended up doing complete re-writes of all my DirectX projects, so it will be interesting to see if you run into the same problems I did and reach the same conclusion.
    George Clingerman - Microsoft XNA MVP | XNADevelopment.com | Kissy Poo
  • 7/28/2008 5:34 PM In reply to

    Re: Starting a new Dev Diary about converting my DX7 game to XNA Game Studio

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    You're not going to spoil it and tell me the conclusion now?
    Charles Cox
    XNA Community Content Producer | Microsoft
    http://www.the-agent.net
  • 7/28/2008 6:06 PM In reply to

    Re: Starting a new Dev Diary about converting my DX7 game to XNA Game Studio

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    I thought this was his conclusion:

    "I ended up doing complete re-writes of all my DirectX projects"


    Jim Perry - Microsoft XNA MVP
    If people spent a minute searching the forums and reading the FAQs before posting I'd be out of a job.
      Got some XNA Game Studio/XNA Framework development info to share with the community? Put it on the XNA Wiki.
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  • 7/28/2008 8:17 PM In reply to

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    Well, yeah, but I figured that was so he could add multithreading, Xbox LIVE and HDR effects.

    Right? :)

    ...I said it to myself on the blog - must maintain feature parity...rrrrrrgggh

    Charles Cox
    XNA Community Content Producer | Microsoft
    http://www.the-agent.net
  • 7/31/2008 4:18 AM In reply to

    Re: Starting a new Dev Diary about converting my DX7 game to XNA Game Studio

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    LOL, no, I just discovered as I was trying to convert that the XNA framework was doing so much for me now that my entire structure just no longer made sense. My games became impossible to convert and it became faster to rewrite. I didn't even need some of my images because it was so much easier to flip and rotate in the XNA framework....

    So yeah, it will be interesting to see how your conversion goes :)

    George Clingerman - Microsoft XNA MVP | XNADevelopment.com | Kissy Poo
  • 7/31/2008 5:23 PM In reply to

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    Err... I can't access to your web page, Charles...
    Multilanguage: meeting point | how to | the peer-review paradox
    Aran -- Let your game think!
  • 7/31/2008 6:03 PM In reply to

    Re: Starting a new Dev Diary about converting my DX7 game to XNA Game Studio

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    Works fine for me.
    Jim Perry - Microsoft XNA MVP
    If people spent a minute searching the forums and reading the FAQs before posting I'd be out of a job.
      Got some XNA Game Studio/XNA Framework development info to share with the community? Put it on the XNA Wiki.
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  • 7/31/2008 6:13 PM In reply to

    Re: Starting a new Dev Diary about converting my DX7 game to XNA Game Studio

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    Jim Perry:
    Works fine for me.

    Not for me. I can neither do a ping. www.the-agent.net doesn't respond...

    Multilanguage: meeting point | how to | the peer-review paradox
    Aran -- Let your game think!
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