http://dxframework.org A pedagogical computer game engine library. Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:26:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Fall 2007 EECS 494 course at the University of Michigan used DXFramework again for the arcade projects with success. http://dxframework.org/2008/01/11/another-successful-course/ DXFramework 1.0 is here. Very few changes from 0.9.7 which had much success in classes in Fall 2006. http://dxframework.org/2007/03/06/dxframework-10/ The new place for DXFramework help and discussion is here. http://dxframework.org/2006/11/13/new-dxframework-google-group/ There is a very simple but critical bug in the 0.9.7 release configurations. Make the following change to fix the issue: 1. open your project's properties dialog 2. set "Configuration" to Release 3. open the dialog: configuration properties -> linker -> input 4. click the ... button to view the Additional Dependencies setting 5. find ... http://dxframework.org/2006/08/22/bug-in-097-release-configuration/ I've generated the Doxygen documentation files for 0.9.7. Please let me know if you spot any problems. http://dxframework.org/doxygen/0.9.7 http://dxframework.org/2006/08/18/doxygen-documentation-for-097-generated/ The annual summer update for DXFramework is now available. Make sure to read the release notes and the Wiki pages, there have been some significant semantic and configuration changes from previous versions. http://dxframework.org/2006/07/21/dxframework-097-released/ Information on the computer game design course at Michigan Please do not hesitate to contact me, Jonathan, at voigtjr@gmail.com if you have any questions related to DXFramework. For information on Sage, a 3D game engine out of north Texas, click here. http://dxframework.org/2006/03/03/sigcse-more-information-on-dxframework/ The high-level walkthrough I presented at Microsoft Academic Days is now available on our wiki. The final version of the Tank game code is available on the CD passed out at the conference, and will be available in the next release of DXFramework. A note about the student demos included on the ... http://dxframework.org/2006/01/24/microsoft-academic-days/ Another day, another release, fixed a few serious issues with 0.9.5. Read about it here and download 0.9.6 here. http://dxframework.org/2006/01/08/release-early-and-often-dxframework-096/ DXFramework is a simple, illustrative, general purpose 2D computer game engine for Microsoft Visual Studio using Microsoft's DirectX technology. Much DirectX 2D functionality is wrapped so that 2D games can be created in a simple manner not requiring knowledge of the ins and outs of the DirectX API. Although 3D support as ... http://dxframework.org/2006/01/06/announcing-dxframework-095/