November 2008 Blog Posts
Several friends and I work together to write “indie” video games under the brand Ganksoft Entertainment. You may recall that for Maker Faire 2007, we created a very simple rhythm-based music game (think Rock Band or Dance Dance Revolution) using XNA called Head Banger. With Microsoft’s official release of Xbox LIVE Community Games with the New Xbox Experience, we decided to blow the dust off of Head Banger, add a couple songs, integrate it bit more with Community Games and XNA 3.0 and release it. It is now available for purchase for 200 Microsoft Points (or, as with...
I’ll be presenting a session on building your own holiday musical light show using Phidget boards and .NET at this month’s Tech Valley User Group. I’ve previously written an article about this topic on the Coding4Fun site, and there will be a full chapter on this in our upcoming “Coding4Fun: 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube, World of Warcraft, and More” book. Here are the session details… Abstract: This month, learn how to build an animated light show set to music, much like the famous holiday light show videos you may have seen on YouTube. This session will...
I previously talked about my WiiEarthVR project shown at PDC project, and now I have posted the article for the application up at the Coding4Fun site. Full source code is available. You’ll need some hardware to make this go, namely a Wiimote, Nunchuk, Wii Fit Balance Board and a pair of Vuzix VR920 glasses, but the hardware can be toggled on or off depending on your own setup. The VR920 glasses are pretty cool in that they also work with a variety of FPS games on your PC with a custom driver they include. The article will, among other...
A new version of my managed Wiimote library for .NET has been released. You can find version 1.6 up at CodePlex now. The changes are as follows: v1.6.0.0 Added "center of gravity" calculation to the Wii Fit Balance Board (thanks to Steven Battersby) Structs are now marked [Serializable] (suggested by Caio) Battery property is now a float containing the calculated percentage of battery remaining BatteryRaw is the byte value that used to be stored in the Battery property ...
We finally have an official cover! This is likely exciting to no one but me (and Dan)… Dan and I are working on the very final round of edits and formatting. The book goes to the printer next week and it should be available the first week of December according to Amazon. So what are you waiting for? Order now! :) And be sure to visit our book’s website. The chapter items will be filled in as we near the official release so you can get a head start on the book’s content.
Cross Posted from www.brianpeek.com.
While at PDC2008 we shot an episode of This Week on Channel 9. If you feel the need to waste 13 minutes of your life on a PDC recap with me, Dan Fernandez, Scott Hanselman and Clint Rutkas, then this is the video for you. I have embedded the video below, but you can also click through to the main page to watch or download the video in a variety of formats.
This Week on C9: PDC recap and Halloween with Scott Hanselman, Clint Rutkas, and Brian Peek
Cross Posted from www.brianpeek.com.