20th July, 2010 Detailed information about my Windows Phone 7 Game Development book now available

I now have an information page online describing the contents of the book I am currently working on: Windows Phone 7 Game Development.

Please click the link above to find out more. If you think it looks good, you can pre-order from Amazon. The expected publication date is December 2010.

13th July, 2010 I Can Press Keys now available for whatever price you want!

For the time being, my children's game I Can Press Keys is available without a fixed price. Instead you can choose to buy it at whatever price you think it is worth.

I Can Press Keys is a fun game for children in the 1 to 3 year age range, offering a large number of different animated scenes and sound effects, activated simply by pressing keys on the keyboard.

You can purchase a copy from as little as £1 or $1 -- don't miss this opportunity to buy the game at a bargain price!

I have also updated the game page with a video clip of I Can Press Keys in motion so you can see what it looks like before you download. Have fun!

22nd June, 2010 New book underway: Windows Phone 7 Game Development

Having recently finished up my game programming book for Windows Mobile, I'm very pleased to have now signed a contract with Apress to write a new version of the book targeted at Windows Phone 7 game development.

Windows Phone 7 has some fantastic capabilities for game developers, including a near full implementation of XNA (a powerful 2D and 3D graphics environment already in use on Windows and the Xbox 360) and Silverlight (a flexible user-interface environment which also has lots of potential for game developers).

In my new book I will cover everything you need to know to create rich and spectacular-looking games in either of these environments, and distribute them to the world through the Windows Phone Marketplace.

The new book is a near total rewrite, focusing entirely on the features and capabilities of this new platform.

Stay tuned for more details...

22nd April, 2010 New freeware Windows Mobile game: GemDrops now ready to download

I'm pleased to announce the release of another game for Windows Mobile: GemDrops.

GemDrops is a fun and frantic puzzle game in which you must arrange pairs of falling gems to form groups of the same colour. Groups disappear once they have formed, allowing the gems above to fall. Create "chain reactions" to multiply up their score.

GemDrops is featured in my book, Windows Mobile Game Development, which also includes the GemDrops source code and step-by-step detail of how the game was designed and programmed.

I hope you like it!

14th April, 2010 Windows Mobile Game Development now available to buy

My book Windows Mobile Game Development is now available to buy from Amazon.com -- I hope you like it! It's still only available to pre-order from Amazon.co.uk and Computer Manuals, but hopefully these will get stock soon.

14th April, 2010 ADCollectionsVisualizer updated to support Visual Studio 2010

With the final release of Visual Studio 2010 now available, I have updated my Collections Visualizer so that it can be used in the new IDE.

An automated installer, archive for manual installation and source code are all available on the Collections Visualizer page.

27th March, 2010 I've written a book: Windows Mobile Game Development

After many months of hard work, I'm pleased to announce that I've now finished writing a book! Windows Mobile Game Development will teach you everything you need to know (providing you already have some basic C# or VB.NET programming knowledge) to create and distribute games for Windows Mobile devices, including setting up your development environment, graphics APIs (including coverage of OpenGL ES), game timing, object management, input and control mechanisms, music and sound effects, maximising device compatibility and lots more.

The book will be published by Apress within the next couple of months. If you would like to read more or order a copy, you can find the book on the following web sites:

• Apress
• Amazon.com
• Amazon.co.uk
• Computer Manuals

4th February, 2010 "Comments" feature now available

I've now put a Comments system online. Each news item added to the site will show a comments link where you can post your own messages relating to the story. Please let me know if you have anything to say!

21st December, 2009 TellyPrompter v1.7 released

A small but important update to TellyPrompter. The data format of the listings was modified, resulting in TellyPrompter showing an error message after downloading its programme listings.

This new version fixes the problem and is required in order for TellyPrompter to continue working.

Either update by choosing "Help / Check For Updates" in TellyPrompter's main window, or download the new version from TellyPrompter's page.

8th October, 2009 TellyPrompter v1.6 released

I can hardly believe it, but a year has passed since my previous TellyPrompter update. No need to wait any more though, as a new version is finally ready. This time it's a fairly small update, but one which contains features that quite a number of people have asked for.

TellyPrompter v1.6 now has support for high priority notifications (marked with a star graphic to draw them to your attention), is time-zone aware for those of you outside of GMT, and will refresh itself if you leave it running past midnight.

Have fun!