Wow, it has been awhile. I have been totally consumed with work but as things are leveling out I have found some time and decided to dust off the game project. With the release of XNA GS 2 and it supporting multiplayer, I think I can finally get this project off the ground. Look for new posts once or twice a week as I document my progress. I will also post on tutorials, interesting ideas, and articles I find while checking out resources as I find them. I do hope to complete this project in a timely manner but this project is done in my free time so it could end up taking months or longer. This weekend I will begin digging in. Thanks for the visit and if you are looking for more XNA resource, you might check out the XNAPortal.com links section.

For anyone wondering about what I have been working on, go check out the new Community Links section over at XNAPortal.com. I will be adding to the database weekly and activating submissions daily. Go check it out, submit your favorite XNA sites and vote for them ;)

Microsoft had four teams from four different countries flown to the GDC. They spent 96 hours coding a game from scratch for each team and we get to reap the rewards, you can read more about it and download the games from XNA.com here.

Over on the XNA Team Blog, Michael Klucher (Program Manager – XNA Community Game Platform Team) announced what we can expect in the upcoming XNA Game Studio Express update coming in April.


He then goes on to list the changes, click the link to read the rest.

Just a note to let you know David Weller (LetsKillDave.com) posted about XNA.com going live and even more important, to me anyway , the Creators Club Online went live.

At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) yesterday, Microsoft announced details for their Dream-Build-Play contest.

So there you have it, win $10,000 and get your game published on XBLA. Oh, contest deadline is July 2, 2007. Check out the Dream-Build-Play website for more information and to sign up.

Gamerscoreblog.com has a post up about a new Microsoft website for casual games. MicrosoftCasualGames.com is a site about casual games from Microsoft of course but there is a section for developers offering resources and events which lists their policy for getting games approved for MSN Games and a few other resources such as Gamefest presentations. Also announced was Casually Speaking, a new interview series introducing us to various MSN Games developers, designers, and artists (the first article is about Jason Mai).

I don't usually post things of a personal nature such as family, mainly because I am a private person and do not wish to air my dirty laundry on the internet. However, this is a post about my personal life so if your not interested, click a link and head out.

For everyone else I have some personal news on why things seems rather dead on my blog lately. My wife is eight months pregnant and the past couple of weeks have not been good. She has had a few complications and things are pretty busy in my life due to this. The doctors are not sure what is going on though they think it could be a condition known as Preeclampsia. She is in the hospital and the doctors are discussing taking the baby early. I also have three kids and all of them are sick at once. So between the two my time has been all about serving the greater good of my family and nursing my loved ones.

I do not know when I will have the time to get back to this blog. Once the baby arrives my world will turn into a sleepless blur of never ending diaper changing I am sure. Being cranky and tired all of the time does not a good blogger make. So my posting will probably be slim for the next month or so until things start to return to normal.

So, please, have some patience and don't dump my blog totally, I will return, it is just that while my Life is happening, I will be missing in action.

Thanks for reading my ramblings, I hope to return real soon.