You will need another texture, a box, for the newer tutorials. This is a very simple texture that I made in about 5 seconds so there is not much to it:

Link - http://www.phstudios.com/tutorials/xna/AdvancedTechniques/BasicPhysics/o...

Upcoming tutorial will be a mouse tutorial, so you will need some nice textures. Leibrockoli was nice enough to create these awesome textures for you to use!

Version 1

Link - http://www.phstudios.com/tutorials/xna/AdvancedTechniques/Mouse/mouse_v1...

Version 2

Link - http://www.phstudios.com/tutorials/xna/AdvancedTechniques/Mouse/mouse_v2...

Due to the enormous amount of spam comments I have to deal with, I sometimes become a little slow when getting around to a reasonable comment. So the fastest way to contact me is through the Contact link on the left, or the Forums. You need to be registered here to use the contact link, and you need to be registered on the forums to use that. You can keep requesting help through comments, but it might be a few days before I get to it.

Well its that time for another update thread and email. We have some small updates and news for you guys, from xna tutorials to site contests. Lets get the posting contest out of the way since everybody is excited about that! Thanks to everybody that helped make the site more active by participating in the latest posting contest. As of this morning, we have 8,751 posts, which means we have reached our goal of 8,250 posts by July 31st. Now here are the prizes:

1st - Left 4 Dead (Steam) or any content with equivalent price from any of the listed applications (up to $49.99) and Legendary/Phoenix Membership
2nd - Team Fortress 2 (Steam) or any content with equivalent price from any of the listed applications (up to $19.99) and Premium Membership
3rd - $9.99 priced content from either of the applications (Plants VS Zombies, Peggle, and all of those games).

Check this thread for a FAQs about these prizes. The following are the top 6 posters from the start of the competition (including staff)

Shattered Hopes
Whiplash
Dr. Conner
Sir Brocoli
Jakob
Akuen

Since staff cannot receive the prizes, here are the winners:
1st - Shattered Hopes
2nd - Jakob
3rd - Akuen

Congrats to you guys! Please send me a PM on what you would like and from where. I will start processing the purchases this weekend (Saturday), so you can PM me before then if you changed your mind on an item.

Whats Next?
Dr. Conner is going to hold a graphics tournament as the next contest. You do not have to be an expert at graphics to participate, this is a learning experience and activity booster more than anything. So if you are interested and have not signed up for it yet, head over to the sign-up thread. Prizes will be discussed later once we get enough participants.

Two new tutorials are now available to the public! I would also like to mention we will no longer be offering public tutorials directly on the server until I get a new one. It takes up a lot of bandwidth having 6-10 versions of one tutorial (including YouTube parts). So with that said, public tutorials will be available at YouTube and Vimeo (links will be provided to the video). I apologize for the complications, but this is better for the server space, and tutorial time.

XNA Advanced Techniques - ScreenManager Files
In this tutorial, I show you how to add the screen manager files to your project in a nicely organized way. I also discuss what these files do. These are from the Space Shooter tutorial, but enhanced for increased functionality.

Part one - YouTube
Part two - YouTube
Vimeo - Will be added soon

XNA Advanced Techniques - Intro Screen
In this tutorial, I continue to discuss the screen manager system and how to implement a logo/intro screen in a very abstract way for easy expansion. Very lengthy tutorial, but a lot was covered.

Part one - YouTube
Part two - YouTube
Part three - YouTube
Part four - YouTube
Part five - YouTube
All 5 parts in one at Vimeo - Recommended so you do not need to go to other videos for part x.

The links were broken for a few days since the files were moved to a new server. If you find any more broken links, let me know :)