Link to the blog I’ve been looking for a great tutorial around building a gaming backend with Azure, and finally found a fantastic one from an MVP, Nick Prueh, Technical Director of Daedalic Entertainment. It includes the source code, and step-by-step tutorials — I cannot recommend it enough! ———————– @DaveVoyles Subscribe to my startup, tech, and…
View the source on GitHub. I put together a brief sample, largely based off of James Montemango’s Plugin.Media extension for Xamarin.Forms. I just wanted to quickly test out Xamarin’s camera functionality, so I built this. In the future, I’ll add support for Azure Blob Storage, which would allow you to upload the image to the…
I recently started working on a Xamarin.Forms project, where I need to use Azure Blob Storage to host pictures taken from a mobile device’s camera. Along the way, I came across several great tutorials illustrating how to take advantage of blob storage, but they were all missing one key part: I couldn’t use this namespace: Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Blob;…
This evening I gave a talk at the Philly.NET user group, out of Microsoft’s Malvern office. Joel Martinez, a SDE on the Xamarin team suggested I talk about Xamarin Workbooks, Xamarin’s latest offering, which provide a blend of documentation and code that is perfect for experimentation, learning, and creating guides and teaching aids. Workbooks allow you…
As part of this commitment I am pleased to announce today that Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire Xamarin, a leading platform provider for mobile app development. In conjunction with Visual Studio, Xamarin provides a rich mobile development offering that enables developers to build mobile apps using C# and deliver fully native mobile app experiences…
Hello and welcome to the first episode of the Game Dev Show, I’m @DaveVoyles. Throughout this series we’ll have several Microsoft Technical Evangelists, as well as some guests, to introduce you to the concepts behind game development from a number of angles, including the programming, art, and business aspects of game production. Every Wednesday we’ll…
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I’ve been working on a shmup for the last year in my free time. Here’s a video of the most recent update. Still working out some bugs. ———————– @DaveVoyles Subscribe to my startup, tech, and game dev newsletter
Today the MonoGame team released 3.4, which includes a flurry of updates, but most importantly, support for Windows 10 Universal Apps and was timed to coordinate with the Build 2015 conference going on right now. I wrote more about what’s coming to Xbox One and Windows 10 for game developers here, following GDC. What…
Listen to the podcast. I do a podcast from time to time, which you can find at indiedevpodcast.wordpress.com In this follow up to episode 15, Michael gives a brief postmortem about releasing his first Playstation 4 title. We discuss the process for getting approved through the ESRB as well as Europe’s PEGI system, in addition…