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My XNA book is out and XnaProjects.Net launches

by Benjamin Nitschke 4. May 2007 13:29
Yes. My XNA book is finally out and some people even got an early version last week. There is also some discussion going on in the XNA Forums and on the official Wrox forum for the book.

The coolest thing yesterday that my book was on Rank #16 for Computer/Technical books on Amazon.com and on Rank 500 something for all books. Quite impressive if you ask me, hopefully it will continue to stay high and make me filthy rich .. just kidding.

Yesterday I wanted to put all the samples from the book on my blog, but it is already way to overloaded here with screenshots and games, adding another 10 games will not make anything better. Instead I had a crazy idea to create a XNA Community site in one day. It is called XnaProjects.Net. The idea is for everyone to submit their games and links. News are grabbed with Google Blog Search and more features will come in July 2007 when I got more than 5 minutes time in a row.

Anyway, check out this great new website, submit your games and links and check out whats already submitted by me (10 Games so far, yes, thats a lot of XNA games I did in the past few months):

  • XNA Pong
  • XNA Breakout
  • XNA Tetris
  • Rocket Commander XNA
  • XNA Shooter
  • XNA Racing Game
  • SimpleRacingGame
  • SpeedyRacer
  • Dungeon Quest
  • Skinning with Collada Models in XNA
You can find source code and game installers for all of these games, including some nice screenshots and a YouTube video for each of them on the XnaProjects.Net website. Check it out:

Comments


5/4/2007 9:06:23 PM #

I received the book from Amazon two days ago (pre-order) I immediately skipped to chapter 11 for the racing game. The book is well written, and easy to read.

Great work.

KaBaL | Reply



5/4/2007 9:39:49 PM #

Thanks, I hope you like the other games too ;)

abi | Reply



5/4/2007 10:57:17 PM #

Is there like a special MVP award? You deserve one Ben...BTW Im going to buy two copies of your book...

Silmar | Reply



5/5/2007 1:43:59 PM #

Hi Benjamin,

will you book also be available in german?

Greetings Patrick

Patrick | Reply



5/6/2007 12:47:09 AM #

Fantastic Work Ben.

Got to ask though, with all this book writing, Developing a game in 4 days (in a conference no less) and setting up even more sites, just when do you get time to wear those tights and cape?, lol

P.S
If you do have some spare change from all these millions in book sales, I can always offer to help out with it!, Wink

Darkside

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5/6/2007 8:24:24 AM #

Quote Benjamin Nitschke: Quite impressive if you ask me, hopefully it will continue to stay high and make me filthy rich .. just kidding.

Maybe you could give some books for free Smile (GIVE IT TO MEE!!! Laughing)

EclipsE | Reply



5/8/2007 3:31:46 AM #

Thanks guys, you keep me going. Too much stress lately (again, involved in 3 projects at the same time, not very healthy ^^).

abi | Reply



5/8/2007 11:22:52 AM #

i read some chapters of your book. the book is ok, but it is not the best work i think. for example you don't speak about the menu effect shader, some graphics are bad and so on.

spoon | Reply



5/8/2007 10:41:31 PM #

i received your book today, and i think, as far as i have read it, its great... A lot of help and very useful to get deeper into xna, and finally understanding 3D graphics and shaders.. ;) thank you sooo much .. Smile

Johannes | Reply



6/19/2007 6:35:20 PM #

Ben,
I just picked up your book.  It is great!  I gotta say, the book is very well structured, has great project examples, and I love how you touch on concepts like testing and agile development.  

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