Kicking off my little vent drama, I focus on one of my biggest pet peeves to date (next to people tweeting from their main accounts about sport) is about developers who complain bitterly that some opensource project doesn’t work the way they want it to or just doesn’t have feature X that they need. End result is usually some flame posts about said project.

Every now and again it’s good to vent / flame or just scream at the world “Why”. What follows are just my personal opinions of the world.

Until January 3rd 2014, PacktPub are offering every customer to buy any title in their catalogue for only $5 (or £3.05 in Brit coin).

I recently attended the ID@XBOX event to get the low down on what it means to be a developer for the new XBOX, more specifically how to be an Indie on the new XBOX One. Now what was said behind those hallowed doors was under NDA but what I can say is that if you want to build games for the XBOX One (or even apps!!!) you can get started now, no matter who you are!

After a flurry of activity the MonoGame NuGet packages have been updated.

Unity3D has been making great strides of late, it is has been one of the big go-to middleware engines for budding iOS and Android game developers and even expanded its reach to Web, Windows desktop and other platforms.

Here is a bit of news you don’t want to miss if you are an existing Unity3D developer in the UK, Nokia and Unity3D have gotten together with some assistance from Microsoft to hold the UK’s largest Unity3D porting event.

I am being battered and getting knackered with my schedule at the moment, not to mention work decided it is a good month to “ramp up” but I am coping. Still, I found time to have a look at one of PacktPubs newest titles and rather surprisingly it is a video book. So sit back relax, get your favourite 3D glasses on and have a look.

GIT appears to have become the defacto new source control system for the masses, in fact most if not all open source projects of late are managed through one GIT repository or another due to its alignment with SCRUM style development and team collaboration capabilities.

After a few last rash hours and feedback from the NuGet team themselves, I can finally announce that MonoGame finally has NuGet support 😀

I’m not usually one for cross promoting sales or offers from vendor sites, there are better ways to do it.

Keeping with the Unity3D season I seem to be having, here is another Unity3D book, this time focusing on beginners.