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Yesterday was the second XNA workshop organized by CSSU. And this time Evgeni showed great presentational and organizational skills, even though few people came. The workshop’s focus was on extending last time’s project. Along with the basic movements, that were created in the first workshop, a map was generated and the packman was able to [...]

On the 23th of October the first XNA workshop took place given by Evgeni Petrov. Unfortunately only few people attended the workshop. Handouts with theory were provided by the lecturer. The theory covered the Application model of XNA (game class, game components, game services, timing) and 2D drawing basics. The goal of the workshops is [...]

Due to some technical problems, the "Intro to C#" workshop was  rescheduled from Oct. 15th to Oct. 16th. The workshop took place in Blue room at around 7:30pm. The theoretical part, presented by Evgeni Petrov, covered the topics of .NET and C#. On the workshop part C# syntax was demonstrated together with Visual Studio functionality [...]

On October 15th, CSSU is organizing a workshop based on the .NET framework and its language of choice - C#. The workshop will be divided into two main parts - theoretical and practical. The theoretical part will cover basics of the .NET framework such as memory management, CLR etc. The practical side of the workshop [...]

Two words - simply amazing. The workshop that Joro and Veli made couldn’t have gone better. People really enjoyed what they were doing. Veli and Joro gave a brief overview of what JavaScript is and then demonstrated how to create a resizable and dragable window from scratch. NOTE: I just uploaded some video [...]

On 8th of October(Wednesday), CSSU is going its next presentation. The event will take place in the Red Room and will start around 7:15pm. The topic of the seminar is going to be "Introduction to JavaScript" and will be presented by Veli Pehlivanov and Georgi Petrov. Both of them have really strong background in web [...]

On 24th of September, CSSU hosted a presentation by Mihail Balabanov from Crytek Black Sea Studio. This was the first company presentation for the semester and it turned out to be extremely successful. More than 60 people come to listen to Mihail Balabanov presentation of "How games are made". Mihail Balabanov is Lead Programmer in [...]

This just a quick recap of Evgeni’s presentation on XNA. Besides having slight problems with the presentation device, the lecture was amazing. Evgeni delivered the information in the most suitable way making people cheer him even before he had finished. At the end, people were leaving with a gloss in their eyes, and I will tell [...]

I am glad to announce that on Wednesday, October 1, CSSU is going to host a presentation on "Game Development Using XNA" by Evgeni Petrov. Background Microsoft XNA ("XNA’s Not Acronymed", in other words, XNA is not an acronym) is a set of tools with a managed runtime environment provided by Microsoft that facilitates computer game [...]

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