Thursday, February 11th

XNA - multi-platform game development
Presented by Aaron King

XNA Game Studio has come a long way from XNA Game Studio Express 1.0. Learn about the new features in XNA Game Studio 3.1 and how to publish your game with the XNA Community Games publishing program.  Avatars and advances in 3D modeling will also be demonstrated in Autodesk Softimage Mod Tool and XNA. Learn how to integrate custom and downloaded models in your game.  XNA also allows a developer to build games for the Zune platform. 

Aaron will give a quick demonstration of how to code a game for the Zune.  PC gaming hasn’t gone out of style.  Windows 7 and MonoXNA will be touched upon and quickly demonstrated.  This is an action packed presentation appropriate for all ages.

About Aaron King
Aaron has over 10 years experience in development. He has designed large applications hosted on dozens of servers across locations that support thousands of users at once and millions of registered users. He has mentored several successful development teams. His main focus is connecting very large databases to internet users thru feature rich Microsoft web applications.  He currently works fulltime at Digiop using ASP.NET MVC.
 
Aaron most recently has created a team of amateur game developers and designers to participate in the XNA Creators Club.  They are also creating games to compete in the Microsoft Dream-Build-Play Challenge.  More information can be found at http://creators.xna.com.

Meeting location
Gene B. Glick Junior Achievement Eduction Center
7435 N. Keystone Ave.
Indianapolis

Registration opens at 5:30
Pizza and soft drinks until 6:00
All are welcome, and there is no fee to attend.

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
SIGs meet after the prize drawing following the main meeting.

Architecture SIG (Steve Porter, SIG Leader)
Topic TBA

ASP.NET SIG (Trey Gourley, SIG Leader)
The group is in the midst of a multi-month development of an open source project: KBMVC (Knowledgebase written in MVC). The project is posted at CodePlex.com. Join in the development, or attend to learn about MVC.

C# SIG (James Ellis, SIG Leader)
The group will host a roundtable discussion on C# topics.

SharePoint Developers SIG (James Curtis, SIG Leader):
Topic TBA