Tom Miller's Blog

The Ramblings of Miller. These postings are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confer no rights.

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Date: 03/25/2011

For starters, I never mentioned that I had left the XNA team here. After spending approximately a...

Date: 08/08/2010

Oh yeah, are you a game artist and you want to see your art in an upcoming book?  Then you...

Date: 05/02/2010

It has been about five years since my last book came out.  During that time, a lot has...

Date: 05/02/2010

Much like Shawn mentioned recently, I too got a twitter account after all this time.  Although...

Date: 02/08/2010

If you were already developing games for your Zune using XNA Game Studio, you’ll be happy to know...

Date: 09/15/2009

At PAX this year, we announced the winners of the 2009 Dream.Build.Play contest with Dust: An...

Date: 09/08/2009

Once again, the Dream-Build-Play 2009 competition has provided a ton of great games.  The...

Date: 09/03/2009

It’s been over a year since my last post, and despite my many promises to myself (and anyone who...

Date: 09/03/2009

Today we announced the Xbox LIVE Community Games. You can read more information about it (including...

Date: 07/22/2008

For those of you who don't read the XNA Team Blog the Community Games on Xbox LIVE feature has gone...

Date: 05/20/2008

I'm probably going to get in trouble for announcing this before any press release has went out...

Date: 04/01/2008

Dear Mr Miller, you suck. I'm running in 1080p resolution, and needed to have four simultaneous...

Date: 02/29/2008

This post will be purely speculation by me! Take a time travel machine back in time to early 2003....

Date: 02/27/2008

One of the things I'm going to try to do this year is write more on my blog. The publisher for my...

Date: 02/21/2008

Well, another conference has come and we have more announcements it seems. Hard to believe I've...

Date: 02/20/2008

Well, Gamefest started today, and with that our team blog posted a new announcement. Exciting stuff!...

Date: 08/13/2007

Next month we'll be releasing an update with a small sampling of some of things we've been working...

Date: 03/08/2007

I never seem to find time to write posts here anymore. Well, to be more accurate, I get frustrated...

Date: 03/05/2007

With a title like that I’m bound to start discussing the intricacies of one of the CLR features am I...

Date: 01/02/2007

Yay, Beta2! Check out our newly updated site on MSDN.

Date: 11/01/2006

You may remember me talking about Koios Works before. They wrote one of the first retail games using...

Date: 09/01/2006

Just click this link.

Date: 08/30/2006

I heard somewhere that we might be having a beta of the Xna Game Studio Express before the end of...

Date: 08/29/2006

Well, maybe not so random. First, ever wonder what the XNA Framework was? Look at Mitch's latest...

Date: 08/25/2006

In one of my posts yesterday I linked to it, but it is a good blog to read. I really enjoyed the...

Date: 08/14/2006

Turns out, Microsoft can't seem to wait until tomorrow. The press releases are all out, and woah, we...

Date: 08/14/2006

Much like Boyd (my boss) says on the XNA Team Blog, I am pretty surprised we're here today and our...

Date: 08/13/2006

As the title implies, Gamefest is rapidly approaching. It's the last weekday before the conference...

Date: 08/11/2006

(I'm gonna copy/paste since i'm in a lazy mood) Are you a hobby, casual or Indie game developer? If...

Date: 04/13/2006

If the title didn't give it away, I regret to inform you that I didn't. I'm sure everyone is aware...

Date: 04/12/2006

At least, it's been the question people have been asking me quite a bit. Given we haven't announced...

Date: 04/12/2006

In the comments section of my last post (not including the april fools joke) many people are talking...

Date: 04/11/2006

Well I have to admit, I've been anxiously awaiting the opportunity where I could finally get out and...

Date: 04/01/2006

One of the Program Managers for the Xna Framework recently started his first blog. Unless you have...

Date: 03/20/2006

Lots of changes been going on over here recently which have been keeping me quite busy (well, more...

Date: 03/14/2006

Joe from TrayGames contacted me earlier and apparently they have a public beta available now. You...

Date: 03/09/2006

So amongst the other mails I got today, i also got one from Marshall Belew from Koiois Works. You...

Date: 02/22/2006

I got an email today from "Matthias" who did some MDX work last semester at the University of...

Date: 02/22/2006

This will be the first of a number of posts today.. It seems today is just the 'news' day for me I...

Date: 02/22/2006

I'm always the last person to announce these things, but.. Hey.. Did you hear? The February SDK is...

Date: 02/13/2006

I just recently acquired a copy of "The COMPLETE Effect and HLSL Guide" and I must say, it delivers...

Date: 02/06/2006

Rather than just copy and paste the stuff that ZMan already wrote, i'll just link directly to his...

Date: 02/01/2006

Aside from this one sentence here, this entire post will be completely devoid of any information...

Date: 01/24/2006

I think I blogged about this once before. If I did, I don't remember when and can't find it. Since...

Date: 01/20/2006

So here at Microsoft, we have this thing called a 'buddy program' which you can read more about at...

Date: 01/18/2006

Just was shown a new website dedicated to MDX Info, called (strangely enough)...

Date: 01/17/2006

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