@Doug: Thanks for the link, I hadn't gotten the chance yet to look over all the CES coverage. Looks pretty wicked. @wes: Cloud does seem like it's the best bet for the future, but in my opinion cloud puts too much dependency on network performance. I don't look forward to ...
I agree that HTML5 just isn't the ideal game platform everyone thinks it is. Even with WebGL standardization around the corner, Javascript performance is unpredictable at best. This is not to say that games can't be developed on the platform, but that the platform severely limits what is possible.
XNA is just a framework, a GDK if you will, for C so you should be completely comfortable writing an XNA-based game. The XNA books in my library include: XNA Game Studio 3.0 Unleashed - Chad Carter Sams Learning XNA 3.0 - Aaron Reed O'Reilly Although I'd highly recommend getting ...
I would argue that games have several of these 10 minute periods the duration of these periods can vary of course where it's the game's duty to hook the player deeper into the game's universe i.e. keep the player in the zone -- http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly csikszentmihalyi on flow.html , which will ...
Now bear with me here, I'm no expert when it comes to writing game documents nor do I claim to be. I've used Word, Basecamp Writeboards, Wordpad, and Google Wave in the past for document creation. All these tools lack the fluidity that is required when writing design documents. What ...
