GameDev.net Four Elements IV Contest!

In case you havent heard GameDev.net is holding a programming contest over at GameDev.net - Contests - Four Elements IV

Forums are now back online...

I have been aware that the forums have not been working and was not sure why it suddenly stopped working. Then I woke up this morning and realized, I changed my password at my brinkster web hosting account. lol Duh! The password that phpbb was trying to use to connect to the database was the old password. Any way all is right again and no fourm data was lost. If this ever happends again and you are trying to visit the fourms just send me an email at createdbyx@gmail.com and let me know that the fourms are down. I am able to respond more quicker this way.

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Sigh! Better late then never...

On June 13 I made a blog entry titled "Hint: noslO nosaJ "Nutty Soup"

This post if any of you might have figured out, refers to Jason Olson's blog regarding 2D game game developemnt using managed DX.

Well instead of leaving you hanging and scratching you heads. I'll just tell you. I have taken the C# code from the Console and Command classes and converted them to VB.NET. I have also added some functionality, as well as stipped some out.

The console code Jason has on his blog was too tightly coupled with the game that he was making so in order to simplify and make the console code more easily portable and resuable I removed the rendering code so that the console now calls a delegate that the programmer specifies rather then the console rendering itself.

But anyway, I will be posting the code as well as a example of the console code in action, fairly soon. I am planning on making a video demo that will take you thru understanding how the console works and what changes I made to it etc. As well as demonstrate the power that having a console in your game can be.

We have a winner!

A winning game has been chosen at the 2005 VB Game programming contest. TAttack took the top spot and won a copy of VB.NET 2003 standard!

I would just like to say thanks to all who participated, and I hope to hold another contest some time in the future...

Yahoo. Not too bright in the marketing department...

I was checking my old email addresses over at yahoo and realized that I was looking at a ebay banner advertisement (yahoo email displays advertisement banners when checking your email.)

Is this a bad marketing idea or what! Yahoo has there own auctions site at Yahoo Auctions which I believe they promote on TV, but there displaying ebay advertisements on there site?

LOL >Snaps fingers at yahoo< Comon yahoo snap out of it!

I personally only use Yahoo Auctions for buying and selling my online auction stuff. I was registered at eBay but have had nothing bad to say about it ever since, I tried to put an item up for sale on it. Oh, you want a add a picture .25 cents, want to do this .25 cents more, bastards, to hell with you ebay. Yahoo auctions are completly free! Yah you heard right, Free!

I even went so far as to have them close my account and request they purge all traces of me from there filthy databases, and any backup databases as well. lol. As you can see I am a little peeved at eBay. If me and eBay were standing on a high bridge and no one was looking I'd push push them over the side and wave good buy. Money lovin greedy bastards, stab you in the back if they had the chance. Did I mention Yahoo Auctions are completly free to use!

Rant Over.