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More XNA/WP7 Performance Stuff: Yes, More of that Mess
Cross Dot Input… Wait what?
Shamelessly ganked from Wikipedia's cross product article.
Another little snippet of wisdom from adventures in WP7 and XNA. Today it
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Stacks of Heaping Garbage Everywhere
ah'm in ur heap, killin' ur performance
Ah, garbage collection. One of the high (and also low, low, low) points in favor of/against managed solutions like C#/XNA. High, because it frees you from having to lose sleep at night over your pointers and allocation and memory leaks you don
Posted in Nucleus, WP7, XNA
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A Designer
So, what have we here? A new pair of category tags, it appears.
In something of a mild departure from my usual design-oriented ramblings, I
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Best-laid Plans of Designers
A Rough Approximation of How I Felt on Wednesday
Unsurprisingly, even for a relatively relaxed quarter, this one has been pretty intensive, making it difficult to post as frequently as I would like. So today shall make do with a quick post about my most recent unforeseen enormous mistake and what
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Press X to Read This Blog: On Quick Time Events
The QTE Controller. Image from Cracked.com
I will be honest at the outset. I pretty much despise Quick Time Events (QTEs) in games. Unlike many who share this dislike, I don
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Post-Mortem: Winter Quarter 2010
What? A post-mortem on an academic quarter? How strangely game-designer-y!
Indeed. But as Winter wrapped up last Thursday, I started to feel like I should talk about how it went and what I learned. So here we are, with my first academic post-mortem.
Conclusions in Brief, or TL;DR
There are two overriding lessons this quarter:
Lesson 1: Don
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