At Microsoft we have an internal distribution group for retro computing and gaming. I stumbled across this gem from Hans Reutter the other day, and with his permission, had to share it! ———————– @DaveVoyles Subscribe to my startup, tech, and game dev newsletter
I just returned from the annual Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco after working at the Xbox booth, and we had several questions about our newly announced updates to the Xbox Live Creators Program. The biggest change is this: “Xbox Live will soon be open to all developers via the Xbox Live Creators Program –…
Holographic Emulation is a new feature that vastly reduces iteration time when developing holographic applications in Unity. Developers creating applications for Microsoft HoloLens will immediately benefit by being able to prototype, debug, and iterate on design directly from the Unity Editor without getting bogged down by long build and deploy times. Holographic Emulation works in two…
I’m not quite sold on VR yet. The more I speak with people in the gaming industry, the more I realize that I’m not the only one. I attended New York Comic Con this weekend, and had a chance to try out two VR demos, including one for Amazon’s “The Man in the High Castle”,…
Andrew Peterson is a software engineer who has spent much of his timing building the N3S, a NES emulator which works on Microsoft’s Hololens. Best of all, the current games on display are not only holographic images presented in world space, but , but are also 3D objects in the form of voxels. Although the…
Huge changes to this bad boy. I needed a more elegant landing paeg for the podcast episodes, so I went with a new WordPress template ( a premium one this time!) and I love it. Visually, I think it is striking when compared to the old look. It took me nearly all of Sunday morning…
This week is a bit different. I’ve got my co-worker in DC, Shahed Chowdhuri on the show, along with Pek Pongpaet (pong-pat) and Daniel Pesina. Shahed and Pek grew up together, and Pek met Daniel while studying at his Wushu. Daniel played Johnny Cage and ninjas Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Reptile, Smoke, and Noob Saibot in several…
The HTML5 gamepad API allows you interact with the web browser through a traditional gamepad, whether it is from Microsoft, Sony, or some other third party product. Bear in mind that it is an experimental technology, so that means it isn’t implemented in every browser (yet). Mozilla has some fantastic docs and examples for the…
Developed by Neon Deity Games, Shutshimi: Seriously Swole is a randomized shoot’em up about a muscle-bound fish with memory problems defending the seven seas. But there’s a catch (there’s always a catch): you’ve been cursed with an incredibly short attention span. Combat waves and upgrade cycles only last 10 seconds a piece. ———————– @DaveVoyles Subscribe…
@DaveVoyles This weekend the team at Unity stopped by Philadelphia to attend not only Dev Night on Thursday at the Philly Game Forge, but also to Pipeline Philly on Saturday to host a day-long workshop and testing for certifications. All of Unity’s upcoming events can be found at unity3d.com/events. I had a chance to stop by…