As you might know, I’m a HUGE fan of “Colin McRae: DiRT 2” the Racing Game.
I like everything in the game, but one of the things that grabbed my attention was the Loading Screen because it switches from a 3D Environment to a 2D image on a Photograph in a very cool way, and one day when I was thinking about it from a programmer’s point of view, I found out that this part can be easily implemented on XNA, so I decided to do it in my free time...

Lately, I’ve been reading a lot about Custom Shaders, FX Files and HLSL (High Level Shader Language), and now after I understood their concepts I decided to implement what I though was very hard to do, Sea Waves ! ...

Yesterday I read a post on mashable.com about YouTube's new 3D video feature and I read about all the new 3D technologies that were in CES 2010, so I decided I should try implementing something like this on XNA.
Of course the easiest way to display 3D images is using the cross-eyed stereoscopic approach where the output is 2 images displayed side by side and you cross your eyes so that your right eye sees the left image and your left eye sees the right image, so you see a 3D image floating between your eyes and your screen as a result of these 2 images combined and interpreted by your brain...

I started working on a Game Engine to help with various things in every game I make, like Input Handling, Screen Managment, 3D Text and Menues.
This "GameHelperEngine" XNA Game Library Project consists of a bunch of classes that were written as part of previous projects, for example, the Input handling class was part of Asteroids v1.3 and the Screen Management and Menus classes were (and still are) part of my Checkers 3D project...

I've been working on a UDP Chat Client for a few weeks, it basically enables computer on the same LAN (Local Area Network) to be able to chat together using the UDP protocol.
I know this might sound useless but it could be great in a Huge LAN like the one in the GUC, students in different rooms in the University can chat together (COOL ?), and I also wanted to learn about UDP...