Check your Brick class definition, it should be public as well.

And that certainly has been done before, from demoscene (with latest-and-greatest example of .kkrieger), to middleware like ProFX and .werkkzeug...

Obviously, the primary choice for graphics is Photoshop. Menu (and pretty much everything else) is based on photo textures, with an overpaint to give it a bit less photorealistic, more cartoonish feel. The great help is a tablet, Wacom Graphire 3 in my case.Terrain textures are using a speed trick - GIMP with the Resynthesizer plugin by Paul ...

Another alternative is loose octreeIt's a trade off between the speed of updates (in loose octree insertion is O(1) complexity) vs. increased memory usage and potentially more collision tests.

Hm, that's interesting, since the mode switching code is brain dead simple:Graphics.IsFullScreen = !Graphics.IsFullScreen;if (Graphics.IsFullScreen){  Graphics.PreferredBackBufferWidth =    Graphics.GraphicsDevice.DisplayMode.Width;  Graphics.PreferredBackBufferHeight ...

Yup, that's a solo entry. I joined quite late in the game, so didn't have time to look for designers to ''outsource'' graphics :)

That looks really nice!Are backgrounds prerendered or is it realtime?

Cool, thanks for feedback!Controller scheme adjusts to the platform, on Windows it is more or less regular painting with a mouse, while on the Xbox cursor position is fixed in the center and terrain is moving around it.I was thinking about supporting controller on Windows as well, so the first thing (easy way) I've implemented was to move cursor ...

Usage of string literals does not cause any garbage, through the string interning process...http://blogs.msdn.com/cbrumme/archive/2003/04/22/51371.aspx

The only limit I've hit so far is really a raw fp performance. Given that my demo is pretty simple, and collisions are mostly 50/50 sphere-sphere and sphere-box, I still spend more than 20% of CPU time in the code that was flying in C++. Same is for visibility calculations, terrain runtime updates, particles, etc. For example, I ended up ...