The next version of XNA game studio has been announced. There’s a bunch of improvements and it will be interesting to see it in action later this year.
In the meanwhile the XNA demo will be on hold and I’m planning doing something with the GP2X again. Also, TMDC again in November!
It has been a few days after the Assembly. After the initial disappointment we now feel it was a good choice not to release the unfinished and ugly version. We’ve done it before and we really don’t want to do it again :)
I really recommend checking out the other XNA entries:
We have decided not to release the demo after all.. There just is too much stuff missing and badly unfinished. Also, problems with running the demo on the xbox didn’t help either. If we loaded all the parts in memory when starting the demo they all lagged. We also tried to load each part after the previous one. We got the first part to run nicely but latter parts run slower and slower even when we tried to free the memory used by the earlier parts.
We will release the demo later with all the stuff we had originally planned.
The decision was very hard. This sucks.
We now have the demo running (or half-a-demo) on the xbox but we have some problems with it. A short lag about every one or two seconds. Possibly something to do with the garbage collector..
Whee, currently the demo crashes on the xbox. Actually the whole xbox crashes..
The party is on! We visited the arena and now we are back at my place desperately trying to finish the demo. We now have the finalized version of the music and we are now putting the rest of the stuff together.
Time is running out and I’m feeling a bit feverish.. Great.
There has been some very small progress with the demo and it is really going to be tight finishing everything. I might have to drop out even more stuff.
If you are in Finland then tune your radio to YleX on Thurday morning. I’ll be talking about demos and stuff with Pehu/ASMorg at 0900 :)