Randy Guthrie, an Academic Evangelist on our Evangelism team at Microsoft, put together a great set of video tutorials for students who take advantage of DreamSpark. He also teaches at Arizona State, and has an active blog there for his students. DreamSpark is a Microsoft program to provide students with software design and development tools at…
UPDATED: 2/2/16 I have a video overview for all of this now, too. Writing code for multiple platforms can be a lot of work. It can be even more work to have to completely rewrite it for each one, too. What if you wrote an application in C++, but wanted it to be displayed in…
We’ve got a Reddit thread for this, whith lots of conversation happening. For this ongoing event, I plan on illustrating a number of ways that you can get started in the gaming industry, regardless of your background. You don’t need to be a rock star programmer or have a degree in fine art to begin.…
Create a WordPress on Azure using DreamSpark from joescars My colleague in Florida, Joe Raio, put together a great power point deck on how to create a WordPress site in Azure using DreamSpark. DreamSpark is MIcrosoft’s free iniative for students to take advantage of our software and platform, such as Azure. If your school…
Find the full tutorial here Download the finished version of this tutorial. Open with Xcode View the project in your browser Tutorial for the web portion of the project I love high performance JavaScript, and have faith that others will finally come around and understand its true potential someday too. Famo.us allows you…
I host a podcast called The Indie Dev Podcast where I interview game developers from around the world in 30 minute segments. I’m always fascinated by what people are able to create, and I’m even more curious about how they make these games happen. I store the most recent episodes of the podcast on…
UPDATE, 10/24: PHL Collective, the authors of this article, release ClusterPuck 99 on Xbox One, as of 9/9/15. The fine folks at PHL Collective, a Philadelphia based game development studio put together a brief tutorial on how to connect your Xbox One / 360 gamepad, either wired or wireless (using the receiver), to Unity. …