Very Silly Games in XNA

XNA Video Casts

2009-07-13T22:18:00Z

And there's more. Rob Miles (who seems to be on a creative high at the moment) has also posted some videocasts about getting starting programming on the Thirteen 1 webzine site. Find out more by turning the page from here.

New XNA Curriculum Materials

2009-07-13T21:16:00Z

Rob Miles has also produced some curriculum materials that you can download here. They are to teach programming from first principles, based on a suitably silly starting point.

If the system sems to be asking you to become a Faculty member, don't worry about this, just keep going through the download pages and you can find a way to get the content without registering for anything.

Version 3.0 of XNA book now out

2009-07-13T16:15:00Z

The second version of the XNA book from Rob Miles is now in the shops. You can find out more about it here.

If you want to obtain the code samples for this book you can find them here.

Free C# Book

2008-10-20T18:37:00Z

Rob Miles has now made the Famous Yellow Book available for download from his blog. This is the book that is used at the University of Hull to teach C# to the first year. It is given to students (and Open Day visitors) in printed form, but you can now get a PDF version for free.

Very Silly Video on Channel 9

2008-06-06T14:16:00Z

If you want to see Rob Miles being silly (and who doesn't) then take a look here:

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/Rob-Miles-Very-Silly-Interview/

Universal Sound Effect

2008-03-14T20:07:00Z

Not content with providing mugs and T shirts, the Very Silly Game franchise is now moving into game developer resources. Every now and the we will be posting items that you might want to include in your games.

Today you can download the only sound effect you will ever need. Created by accident in the Very Silly Games labs, this sound can be used for any purpose, from a stylish ring tone to game over, and just about everything in between. Simply grab the bit that you want from this symphony of sound...

Wear the Dream (or drink from it)

2008-03-11T14:42:00Z

You can now get Very Silly Games T shirts and mugs. These are decorated with stylish (perhaps) and unique (definitely) logos, all of which were generated by an XNA program. With very little help from me.

Follow the link at the side of the page, or go here.

Gamepad Racer Lives

2008-03-05T08:42:00Z

I now have a new hero, Jerry V (Gamertag: Xyjar). He has only gone and produced a stunning video of a Gamepad racer session, complete with rocking soundtrack.

The start of the race (I love the way he has used XNA books to prop up the table!)

For those of you who have no idea of what I'm talking about, Gamepad racer is a very silly Xbox 360 game where you just make the gamepads vibrate down a slope. You can find the source for the game here. You can find Jerry's video here. Thanks for that, you've really made my day.

Facebook Group Launched

2008-03-03T13:04:00Z

In a vain attempt to be hip and cool I've launched a Facebook group for Very Silly Games (actually it was Craig's idea). If you want to take part you can find out more here.

I'm still waiting for someone to come up with a video for GamePad racer. The first one with something halfway decent on Facebook gets a signed copy of the book.

Silliness at GDC 08

2008-02-18T20:57:00Z

I wrote an XNA Program that does nothing but print this. Silly eh?

Very Silly Games is at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. If you want to meet up with the silly person behind all this, send an email to gdc@verysillygames.com with your contact details and we could meet up for a silly chat.