Category Archives: Windows

AthleTECH Summer 2015

By Shahed C on July 16, 2015

Back in 2014, I was fortunate enough to teach a group of talented students for Microsoft’s AthleTECH program, thanks to founder Anthony Egbuniwe, a Technical Account Manager at Microsoft. We covered visual game development with Construct 2.

Now in Summer 2015, AthelTECH is back at Microsoft’s Chevy Chase MD office and we’re sprinting ahead with Unity game development with C# to build 3D games that can run on any platform.

 

The students used the following tools:

We got through my C# Crash Course, followed by my Rollerball tutorial, a step-by-step version of the Roll-a-ball tutorial from Unity technologies.

The goal of this program is to train the students to create their own unique game, and publish to the Windows Store and other online stores.

You can follow IDEA Games and AthleTECH on Facebook and Twitter:

 https://twitter.com/IDEAGames_

 https://www.facebook.com/Athletech

Publishing on Windows 8 & 10 and Xbox One

By Shahed C on June 25, 2015

windows-xbox

This presentation “Publishing on Windows 8 & 10 and Xbox One” was delivered at my monthly meetup in Reston, during the 6/25 Dev Showcase event.

 

 

Flying a Drone with Windows 10 and an Xbox Controller

By Shahed C on May 4, 2015

WARNING: To avoid personal injury or damage to objects around you, I would suggest flying drones in outdoor open areas, preferably in an open field with little to no wind. It goes without saying that you should not fly drones in restricted areas, or record video/pictures of others without their consent.

Introduction

I recently started playing around with an AR Drone 2.0 by Parrot. There is a companion app available on iOS, Android and Windows 8. But I really wanted to use my Xbox controller for better control, and also tweak the app to make improvements and add functionality.

 

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App Studio: Hands-On

By Shahed C on March 19, 2015

On March 19, 2015, I delivered a presentation at my monthly Meetup titled “Hands-On: App Studio”.  The presentation material is intended to complement a hands-on session for building Apps using App Studio.

 

You can download the presentation from the link below:

 

 Enjoy! 🙂

Publish Your App/Game

By Shahed C on February 19, 2015

On Feb 19, 2015, I delivered a presentation at my monthly Meetup titled “Publishing Your App/Game”.  The presentation is intended to show developers how to publish an app/game onto Microsoft platforms, including Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox.

 

Xbox One banner

You can download the presentation from the link below:

 

 Enjoy! 🙂