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My two passions are gaming and programming and my hobby is combining them.

Age 35, Male

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Posted by kiwi-kiwi - June 23rd, 2009


For the past few months I've been developing a game to teach myself the basics of XNA and right now it's starting to take shape, it's almost finished, I just have to work on the graphics for a bit and implement a storyline.

Anyway seeing as I actually bought Visual Studio for this reason, I want to distribute the game for free so right now I'm releasing a public beta through my website, it's a .rar file with the installer, the End User License Agreement (GNU GPL) and a instruction file.
Problem is that I only tested it on my computer so I don't really know how well it's going to deploy on different systems, it should work on any machine with .NET 3.5 installed (yes you have to have .NET 3.5 already installed, otherwise it won't work), though I can't guarantee it.

For those of you that do manage to install it, I'd appreciate any comment, criticism, feedback etc

Game can be found here

P.S: Don't expect too much from it, it's still in beta.


Posted by kiwi-kiwi - June 11th, 2009


So I had this little poll on my website some time ago to ask people if they like the new theme I made for it and all visitors voted no.
Anyway that made me rethink the whole layout of my site and for now it is generating some nice feedback even though it's kinda grayscale.
Here's a link if you want to check it out

Feel free to comment or suggest improvements.


Posted by kiwi-kiwi - May 21st, 2009


I was thinking these days how desperately I was seeking a drawing API for 2D primitives in XNA and after failing to find something that suited my needs I thought I'd make one.

Things are actually going pretty well, I've managed to make drawing methods for circles and rectangles, I'm gonna do ellipses next and then I'm moving to lines and curves.

Anyway I'm going to post it somewhere for download sometime in the future, so check back from time to time.

Also feel free to comment on the initiative or ask for features on the API.


Posted by kiwi-kiwi - April 27th, 2009


So I've started this tutorial series that will be focused on game development.
It starts from general programming concepts and builds from there (or at least it will when it will be completed), hoping that somebody will benefit from it.

Anyway the tutorials are here and I'd appreciate any feedback you could give me on the accuracy of the data, the structure of the tutorials etc.