New Content: Waypoints, and 2D Tutorial Extra Credit! The XNA Team announces a new set of educational content for XNA Game Studio: Waypoint Navigation - Learn about artificial intelligence navigation in 2D using waypoints. Getting Started 2D: Community Extra Credit - Already finished the 2D Getting Started tutorial, but still hungry ...

Gamefest 2008 Presentations Now Available This year's Gamefest included exciting announcements about Games for Windows - LIVE and Xbox LIVE Community Games. Now, you can enjoy the interesting and informative Gamefest 2008 presentations from the comfort of your own home! We've posted many of the presentation's slides and audio at ...

[quote user="RUIN NATION"]Id like some pointers I pick up things fairly quickly Im gonna start at 2d work my way up to 3d.. Is there a good starting video any one can reccomand ? [/quote] You might want to check out the 2D video tutorial series in our Getting Started section: http://creators.xna.com/en-US/education/gettingstarted Let ...

[quote user="Jemik"]ok, serously, I need help here guys. This is driving me nuts![/quote] Hey Jemik, Sound can be a little tricky in XNA Game Studio 2.0. In the upcoming version it'll be easier, but if you're using XNA Game Studio 2.0 you'll need to use the XACT tool to package your sounds and music so they can be played ...

[quote user="EvoFx Studio"] when hi sigend up for the dreambuildplay he get a 12 month free pass then i thout taht we coud test the game out , but bad luck it can not be done microsoft have to give a guest account for only cc memebers so we can test our game out for xbox360 please after all we have been wating for this allmost 2 ...

[quote user="nca2003"]Thank you for the new samples.  I found the shadow mapping especially interesting because I never really understood how shadowing techniques worked, but I know they are an important enhancement to gameplay (better depth perception, realism, etc).  I was wondering if anybody from the XNA team knows where ...

The proper fix is now up on the site! :) If you re-download the Sprite Sheet sample, the problem is fixed. Thanks, Charles Cox

Hey Creators, Today we're releasing the shaders that run the SpriteBatch and BasicEffect drawing routines in the XNA Framework. This has been requested for a while, and now, thanks to Teh Shawn, we're bringing them to you. Here's the direct links: BasicEffect Shader SpriteBatch Shader They come with ...

Hey CDarklock, Some news on the videos. Turns out this work you did on uploading turned up a bug in the Community Clips system. Thanks for helping track this down. Essentially, the Community Clips team made an encoder switch and it's affecting Community Clips Recorder users. They're fixing the encoder and once that's done, the upload ...

Question: What's your user name on Community Clips? I'm having someone look into it, and he'll need your user name on Community Clips to drill down and get to your video uploads.