Michael Wolf

Thursday March 11, 2010

xna gunfight at mix and sxsw

Were getting ready to head out to sxsw and mix. We will have a booth at mix, and will be at the Microsoft booth and party at SXSW, if your in town come…. by and say Hi. One thing we will have at both is a quick fun game some of us came up with for Cynergy.Labs were calling "Gunfight in Redmond". Its an XNA game running on the zune hd, using the accelerometer. The idea came about while discussing the Mix 2010 zune shuffle app I made. We were talking about other gestures you could achieve with just the accelerometer. Shake is the most prominent of these types of gestures, but we wanted to find another that emulated a real life interaction. After some discussions of using the zune for a baseball game, and the concern of people slipping and throwing the zunes, we looked down at our nerf guns. In the DC office we have a fine assortment of nerf guns, and a single nerf missile, which are always a great release. This became the inspiration for the game.



thanks to Ryan Lee (by the way check out his new mobile gesturecons ) and Javieer Villarel for all the great work.