Aaron’s Head is now Animated

I’m learning that programming as a novice is a whole lot of trial and error, with an akward learning curve.

Today I managed to get my moving sprite animated; if it’s moving right it looks right. If it’s moving left, it looks left. I also got it open and close the mouth from a space bar press! The path to getting there however, was a long one…

XNA Halo Effect & Tutorials

I’ve been scrounging around, observing the coming XNA halo effect of websites and products. So far I know that I’m looking at new PCs, will be purchasing a USB XBOX 360 controller, and I’ll be paying the $100 to deploy my stuff (even my simple bouncing head app) to the 360. So already, off of free tools, the PC division of Microsoft is going to be making more money off me than they have in… um… 5 years since I built my last computer and thus, a copy of Windows XP (I’ve been using Macs since I do video production).

Two site have popped up of interest for tutorials specific to XNA:

http://learnxna.com/

http://www.xnaspot.com/

So on day 2 of the XNA unveiling, it looks like Learn-XNA is going to be a great spot for information. They were working on C# tutorials before XNA was out.

I’m anticipating that XNA Spot MIGHT be a bit more of a commercial site to promote Synaptic Studios and not really a tutorial site, but that’s just because the majoirty of the content there is about Synaptic Studios. Of couse, this is day 2 and what do I know (aside from that I need more knowledge!). I don’t mind looking at images of Synaptic’s stuff if they have great tutorials, so we’ll see.
But here, here’s the site/blog I can’t wait to get rolling:

http://xnarocks.spaces.live.com/

If Krishna can deliver on the killer syllabus he’s suggesting, then maybe we can all play in our own XNA-created worlds. Krishna’s blog is the place to watch.