Archived Posts by matt

Matt Sams is a hobbyist game developer focused on using C# and the XNA Framework to bring classic gaming archetypes with modern updates to the PC and XBox 360.

You Are The Castle Update #1

By matt :: Published June 16, 2010 :: Leave a comment

Hello faithful follower(s)! I’ve been a bit lax in keeping up with my blag here, and that’s unfortunate because Tyler and I have been moving along pretty nicely with our first game, You Are The Castle. So, to recap where we are… Tyler has really been cranking out some awesome new assets (tiles, traps, heroes, [...]

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New Look

By matt :: Published May 30, 2010 :: Leave a comment

So, I spent most of yesterday getting rid of the generic WordPress theme I was using. Elements of SEO is a great theme, don’t get me wrong, but it rather irks me when I’m trawling blogs and see the same themes over and over.  I don’t want to be that guy. So with some CSS, [...]

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YouTube Channel

By matt :: Published May 4, 2010 :: Leave a comment

I finally broke down last night and made myself a YouTube channel.  I looked around for some nice plug-ins for WordPress to host videos on-site, but couldn’t find anything that wasn’t a mess to setup or didn’t require you to subscribe to some random service.  I figure if I have to subscribe to a random [...]

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OgmoXNA Released

By matt :: Published April 20, 2010 :: 3 Comments

Download at Codeplex Well, it’s been a busy few days. Last Friday I was browsing the TIGSource forums when I came across an announcement by Matt Thorson.  You may not know him if you don’t purview the indie scene outside of XBLIG, but he’s responsible for games like Jumper, Runman:  Race Around the World, and [...]

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Hex Colors

By matt :: Published April 17, 2010 :: 4 Comments

So I’m working on a side project to load in XML maps generated by Matt Thorson’s Ogmo Editor.  It turns out that he uses hex values to define his ARGB colors.  You know, #FFFFFFFF for white, #FF000000 for black, etc. XNA’s default Color implementation doesn’t have anyway to read to or from hex values, and [...]

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XNA Using Statements

By matt :: Published April 17, 2010 :: Leave a comment

If you’re anything like me constantly having to re-add the XNA using statements each time you create a new class can be more than tiresome.  To remedy this I finally decided to dive into the world of Visual Studio code snippets.  The first thing I immediately learned is that I have been missing out!  So [...]

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