Bruno Silva

Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Receiver + Wireless GamePad + Guitar Hero

A equipa PizzaShoot continua o intrincado processo de desenvolvimento de um jogo de elevado nível!

Temos disponível mais um vídeo. Desta vez demonstramos com é possível ligar acessórios wireless da Xbox 360 ao PC através do Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows. Demonstramos também como utilizar o Input Reporter (disponível no XNA Creators Club) para testar o input não só do gamepad wireless, como também da guitarra que acompanha o Guitar Hero 3! Isto porque a guitarra não passa de um comando com uma disposição diferente dos botões (e com um acelerómetro mapeado nos triggers do comando normal).

Os developers de jogos em XNA ficam então com um leque de possibilidades ainda mais abrangente.

Video: Connect X360 Wireless devices to PC

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Although the video is in Portuguese, I want to leave the main message to all the potential worldwide readers of this blog. If you connect your Xbox 360 guitar to your PC (a wireless or wired guitar) you can use it as a X-Box 360 gamepad. Use Input Reporter to find out the correspondence between each device buttons. Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows it the accessory that you need to connect Xbox 360 wireless accessories to your PC.

Deploy de XNA na Xbox 360

Um pequeno vídeo caseiro só para dar a ideia do processo. Gravado durante uma tarde de desenvolvimento e testes do PizzaShoot!

Video: XNA Game Studio Deploy X-Box 360

Dream Build Play - Free XNA Creators Club Membership!

Great news!!! For all the Portuguese folks, it is a nice resource for XNA Pizza Night! Now you can deploy your XNA game on your Xbox 360 for free.

Don’t forget that XNA Pizza Night is getting closer! Register in Microsoft Portugal website, and get your game ready until 24th June.

Windows SideShow on Mobile

Have you heard about Windows SideShow? It’s kind of a geeky feature of Windows Vista.

It allows you to connect an external device to your PC, displaying gadgets like incoming e-mails, photo galleries among other stuff. There are already some devices that support this feature. You may be familiar with an ASUS laptop which comes with a display on top of it.

There are other devices detached from your laptop like digital picture frames.

More details available in the Windows Vista official website - Window SideShow details.

A beta version of a piece of software is now available which transforms your Windows Mobile 5 or 6 devices into a Windows SideShow compliant device (using bluetooth).

The developer preview can be found at Microsoft Download Center. Follow the instructions that come with the software. After a successful install you can download and install new gadgets from Window Live Gallery. (Suggestions: Microsoft Office Power Point Remote and Picture Viewer)

You can configure your gadgets for each plugged Windows SideShow device in the Windows Control Panel (Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Windows SideShow).

Take a look at some screenshots at Chris Craft’s Blog.

(Based on another great post from Channel 10)