Space Shooter Part 1 will be released this week. 8 new tutorials, tutorial complete VS2008 project, and two extras!

This will be a single ZIP file, and it will include the content series in it. File size at the moment is around 500 MB.

The forums and drupal software have been updated to their latest versions, I backed up the entire site and changed some things around.

Things still in development:
* A new forum skin is in the works. I was going to add it this week but I had some server issues to deal with when backing up. The good news is, I will be able to work on the new skin while the site is online. You will not experience any downtime while I work on it and while I release it. I will post some screen shots soon.

* Premium Member Area is being redesigned. I will be adding a simple page to the premium area instead of having you see a directory listing. You will be able to navigate to any tutorial from the premium area a lot easier now!

* Premium Area will eventually be connected to the Invision Power Board's database. This means instead of having two sets of logins, you will only need to remember the forum's login for both sections.

Remember, tutorials start late next week for premium members!

Maintenance:
Both the forums and the main website will be down Monday, May 10 through Friday, May 14 while I work on new features. I will also update the designs and make the Premium Area look more appealing than it has been. Once the site has been updated, tutorials will resume. I am hoping to release about 4 or 5 tutorials a week the entire summer (maybe take a week or two off here and there). I plan to get as much done this summer as possible that way you can have the fall to look at stuff while I am in classes.

Please post ANY ideas or features you would like by Monday, May 10. Anything you think of, post it here

Adventure:
Brocoli has started a very interesting text based adventure to have something fun for everyone. He will take a command you write, and make a picture of what happens when the character performs that command. Check it out, it is very fun!

General Text Adventure Discussion: http://www.phstudios...ased-adventure/
Current Adventure In-Progress: http://www.phstudios...1646-adventure/

Hey everyone!

While I am still in classes for another month, what kind of samples would you like to see? I cannot do any tutorials until this semester is finished since my classwork needs my full time to get done. As soon as the semester is done (May 5 is the last day) I will start doing 3-5 tutorials a week again.

Samples are a lot easier for me to do, so if you have an idea for a sample, please let me know!

I apologize for only being able to do tutorials in the summer time this year :(

Comment on this blog post if you have an idea, or post on the forum topic here!

As I finish my Space Shooter videos with loads of extras (keep them coming), I will begin working on an intro to C# series. For those of you that were not around for the earlier tutorials, I originally had the XNA series start with the basics of C#. I had way too many complaints so I removed that series. I brought the XNA Basic Training series to you with just XNA, but some people wanted C#. So I will be making another series for an intro to C#

Keep in mind I am still in college, so the regular semester time will be slow around here. The summer is when I am available to make up for the slow times. Stay tuned for the Space Shooter package in the next few weeks. The extras will be separate since I have had a lot of requests and ideas I can do.

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