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Get Your Game On!
Writing software using Microsoft's XNA Framework 3.0
Microsoft’s XNA Framework 3.0 is currently in the Community Technical Preview stage. This new version of XNA introduces a new target platform for the framework: the Microsoft Zune. For the first time ever, developers will be able to write games for three different platforms (the PC, the Xbox 360, and the Microsoft Zune) with virtually no code changes from platform to platform. XNA Framework 3.0 games are developed in C# using XNA Game Studio 3.0 which runs within of Visual Studio 2008. We’ll discuss the exciting new developments in XNA (including Xbox LIVE Community Games) and go through a walkthrough demo of some XNA code and deploying that code to an Xbox 360. Should be fun!
Aaron Reed works at Neumont University where he manages relationships with industry partners. He also teaches the XNA game development course at Neumont. He’s just finishing up a book for O’Reilly on game development in XNA (http://www.amazon.com/Learning-XNA-3-0-Aaron-Reed/dp/0596521952/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215545932&sr=8-1)
| Date: |
Thursday, August 14th, 2008 |
| Time: |
6:00 PM |
| Place: |
Neumont University 3rd Floor (10701 South River Front Parkway, South Jordan) |
The Utah .Net User Group meets the 2nd Thursday of every month at 6:00 PM. Browse to the Events section for meeting details (topic, speaker, etc.). Meetings are held at Digital Draw Network (DDN) in the South Jordan area just a few minutes from downtown Salt Lake City. If you are traveling on I-15: exit on 106th south, head west, and they are right on the left hand side of the road in the grey 4-story buildings right there on the 3rd floor.