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…
This is my weekly newsletter which covers my favorite stories of the week in the fields of Tech, HTML5, Startups, Game Dev, and Venture Capital. If you find some links that you think would be useful, feel free to share! You can always subscribe (or unsubscribe) by clicking on the MailChimp widget on the right-hand…
Unity, and Epic’s Unreal Engine, the popular middleware tools frequently used by game developers are not limited to creating compiled applications that run as an executable. Unity previously had a web player, which was a downloadable plugin that used ActiveX. Chrome killed support for NPAP (Netscape Plugin API), but announced it over one year ago.…
Recently Microsoft announced a new deal with these engine providers: Unity Technologies, Epic Games, and Chukong Technologies. When you go to install these engines now, Visual Studio will be the default IDE selected.The Community Edition is included, which is basically VS 2013 professional. If you are using Unity, we also have the free Visual Studio…
This is my weekly newsletter which covers my favorite stories of the week in the fields of Tech, HTML5, Startups, Game Dev, and Venture Capital. If you find some links that you think would be useful, feel free to share! You can always subscribe (or unsubscribe) by clicking on the MailChimp widget on the right-hand…
You can find the video here. My peer in Chicago, David Giard, has a video podcast called “Technology and Friends”. During the MVP Open Days event in Philadelphia a few weeks ago, I had a chance to hop on and talk about WebGL, in addition to that, we cover asm.js, and how middleware tools like…
This is my weekly newsletter which covers my favorite stories of the week in the fields of Tech, HTML5, Startups, Game Dev, and Venture Capital. If you find some links that you think would be useful, feel free to share! You can always subscribe (or unsubscribe) by clicking on the MailChimp widget on the right-hand side…
Microsoft has a new video show, based on game development, called Level Up. You can find Episode 1: Project Spark here. They’re always looking for additional talent, so if you happen to be in the Seattle area and would like to come on, feel free to reach out to me. Level Up is a show…
UPDATE, 9/13/16: This project is no cancelled. Miguel de Icaza outlined why in this post from May: Hello, As you guys have noticed, the experience to setup Mono with Unreal Engine is not very pleasant. It involves compiling code from source, it involves a specific version of Unreal and has a very long and tedious installation…
This post is part of 3 week series giving current and aspiring game devs the tools, resources, and advice they need to get started building for Windows. We also have a great video course on game production basics at Microsoft Virtual Academy. Visual Studio Community Edition You need an IDE, or Integrated Development Environment,…