Happy post-tax day! As some of you may know, I work on the Xbox team at Microsoft. Last month, I wrote a blog for our team’s Xbox Engineering Blog on our virtual environments and how our engineers go about developing and testing Xbox LIVE features. Check it out! http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/engineeringblog/virtually-xbox-live.htm
Happy 2010, everyone! We’re looking forward to a wonderful and exciting new year and hope for the best to all of you! As for me, I’ve been working on the robot game (as mentioned in previous posts) with my brother during my free time and on vacation during this holiday season, which leads to the update [...]
Here’s an interesting article on Gamasutra about Achievements that I think is a must-read for game designers: Achievement Design 101 Every game on the Xbox 360 (with the exception of Xbox LIVE Indie Games) ships with achievements and games have used this functionality in many ways to both their benefit and their detriment. For example, [...]
This was too funny not to share. While some guy named Greg was sleeping, his dog decided to chew on his Xbox 360 controller and managed to purchase some Microsoft Points (Xbox LIVE currency) and went on to spend $60 through Greg’s account. The happy ending: Microsoft refunded the money from Oscar’s purchases and sent a [...]
The E3 Conference was this week and working on Xbox LIVE and all, I felt the need to share this exciting Project Natal with everyone, now that it is publicly announced! I got to try it out a while back and it definitely worked very well, detecting all of my movements and gestures right away, [...]
Can you believe it’s already the middle of March? With losing an hour from daylight savings time, it is brighter outside late into the evenings which is really great and it feels nice to be getting dinner while the sun is still outside. It’s been quite an eventful few weeks and I am more excited [...]
