Hey everyone,

My name is Rod Hughes. I live in Dallas, Texas. I'm a self-taught developer currently using C# for building line-of-business apps. Back in the day I dabbled in assembly language for the Commodore 64 and wrote a few simple games. Recently, I've been working on a 2D game engine in XNA by myself, but I think it's time to receive some outside influence to expand my understanding of XNA and game design in general.

hi everyone

My name is Thomas Pinetz, I live in Austria and I'm 17.

I got programming knowledge in C/C++, Java, C# and a bit of assembler. Most of it is self taught, however I learned the basics at school. I got limited knowledge in the most popular graphics API like Direct3D & OpenGL and i have worked with SDL for school some.

I tried to learn XNA some time ago without real success, mainly because of the lack of a guideline.

I'm hoping to make contacts with other studends and find a gamedeveloping team to develop bigger games.

Hello all

My name is Christopher or for my friends just Chrissi. Im 20 years old and i live in Hamm, Germany and im studying Informatics at the TU(Technical University) Dortmund in, well, Dortmund xD. May be a bit confusing that my shortname is Chrissi ... Everytime i sign up somewhere just with "Chrissi" as nickname everyone thinks that im a girl . Well in Germany usually there are no female Chrissi's

Well ... Im interested in 3D-Game Programming and i've tried some tutorials ... I've introduced myself into DirectX11-basics and mostly i write in C++, but i like C#, too. It's a really nice language and XNA is one of the most powerful tools i know. Once we had a "crash-course" in XNA. We had a 2h lesson and then we had 8 hours to program a simple 2D Game. We did a kind of Super-Mario-Evade game, a little bit buggy, but still funny =)
I hope i will learn a lot more by now, making games just makes so much fun. It's really awesome. One of my dreams =)
Hopefully i will finish my running project. Until now i've just got the idea for the game. But i will start programming soon.

So far,
Chrissi =)

Hey all,

My name is Hagalin, I'm 23 years old and I live in Iceland. I'm a C/C#/C++/Java programmer with 3 years in experience. I have a B.Sc. degree in Mechanical engineering from the University of Iceland and my experience is mostly hardware development, embedded systems, robotics and simulations. I really want to expand my software developing by taking this course and what better motivation is there than video games. I'm a programming enthusiast and really eager to learn more even though I plan to study Applied Physics in the future. I got 2 friends who are taking this course as well and we hope to make a game developing team hopefully with more people.

That pretty much sums it up so I just wish everyone good luck out there.

Hello there people!

Guess I too will share a welcome with everyone and let a little bit of information be known about myself. I've been programming for around 6 or 7 years now, I started from the real classics such as VB6 and worked my way up always being self taught. My first programming knowledge actually started with servers, then game servers, mainly mmo. I had no interest in actually running an mmo myself but the software behind an mmo I thought was truly amazing and to replicate a server like that was a huge thing for me. From here I moved on to game modding/scripting and this was where my thirst for game development flourished lol before long I wanted to make my own stuff. I started with Director and Flash both of which I hated! I wanted to stay on familiar ground... At the time I was programming and working with Java a language I liked a lot which was when I found XNA, okay it was C# but I'm sure most people know the difference here is minor! I tried it anyway and I knew I found what I was looking for. Since then I've been working on small projects and I feel my 2d side is quite up to scratch atm. I'm now planning on upgrading my knowledge enough to be able to start tackling 3d and I also want to polish myself using this course. Hopefully then I can get myself some work with a team and a small portfolio going.

Sadly I have no work I can show anyway atm due to life circumstance and losing my old computer I'm missing a lot of old projects and so on, the only thing I really have atm was a windows phone 7 directional pad I released on the XNA forum.

Anyway sorry for the ramble and life story look forward to doing the course with everyone and hopefully making a few friends and/or partners along the way.

Hi everyone!

I'm Johnny from Philippines. I am a 3rd yr ComSci student and it is my dream to make AAA games in the future. I have experience programming mostly in C, knows C++ a little, and I am loving programming in C#. I have made a simple 2d game in Java before as a school project and Tetris in XNA 4.0. I took a couple of XNA tutorials to prepare for this workshop. I also know some basics of 3d game programming. I would like to meet friends here in this workshop to make a team project in the future.

My name is Justin. I've got about 2 or 3 years programming experience with C#/C++/VB. I've dabbled in a couple of XNA tutorials just to make simples scrollers and what not. I know enough to know that I don't know hardly anything. You know, after this workshop is complete, I'm def going to want to form a team and see what we can come up with; hopefully I can make some good contacts on here with fellow students

Pretty stoked about this. Good luck, everyone.

-Justin

Hi Justin. Maybe we could be teammates after this.