But seriously … I think there’s a lot that can be done on the tooling side.  For example, it wouldn’t be too far-fetched to imagine creating a custom UITypeEditor for your content pipeline processors that spin up an XNA Graphics Device and let you edit in real time resources like heightmaps, shaders, or maybe even let you preview model material changes in real-time.

Cool Stuff

• Importer now throws an exception if the .avi file is readonly to avoid any confusion over why the import won’t work.
• Video now has an “End” event that is raised when the video reaches the final frame.  This can be used in cases where you need to know when the video has come to an end (like an Intro video).
• Improved the video streaming code to read fully into the byte array buffer.  Before, I was just calling .Read on the stream, which is not guaranteed to read the full amount requested.

But that’s not a requirement.  I won’t go into the properties and virtues of a good logo, since if you’re the kind of person that could come up with a great logo, you’d know them better than I.  Though if I had to give any direction (aside from the scurvy bones logo above), I’d say that I really love farseer’s logo:

It’s so simple, and iconic … and explains exactly what the farseer physics library is all about.

What will you win?  aside from my undying gratitude … the winner will be forever recognized (with a link and info on any scurvy media distribution site) as the logo’s designer.

Download

https://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=ScurvyMedia&ReleaseId=8615

Release Notes

• XBox 360 Project Support!
• Streaming playback mode is now multithreaded.  On xbox, it defaults to Core#2.
• Texture setting is now double-buffered to avoid stalls.
• Internal video related functionality has been moved to the Scurvy.Media.VideoModel namespace to avoid crowding up the root Media namespace.
• Fixed InvalidOperationException bug.  Description here. This was a side-effect of the double buffering feature above
• Improved runtime allocation profile slightly by removing debug write statements (lots of string allocation).

Known Issues

• Using “In Memory” playback type throws an exception. This will be fixed in a follow up release.
• Using compression partially garbles the texture playback.  There is an active thread on the XNA forums about this here.  Once resolved, the content pipeline will be able to support larger videos, and have a smaller disk footprint of the processed XNB file.
• Importing a large video will still throw an OutOfMemoryException.  I have a bug logged on the XNA Connect site.  However, it has been closed with no hint as to whether it was deferred, or solved.  If the compression issue noted above is resolved, it will mitigate this issue.

Wouldn’t it be nice if the following accepted openid:

• Forums
• Blog Comments
• Sites like Digg, Flickr, and Facebook

Here’s a clue … if you are even remotely involved in building web-based software.  please be familiar with this: http://www.dataportability.org/

https://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=337992&SiteID=226

I think that the launcher should show up on your gamercard. I would be proud to show the fact that I had recently been deploying and developing XNA games to my xbox This could also come with some achievements that obviously only XNA Creators Club members could get, like:

• “Deployed an XNA Game”
• “Used Multithreading”
• “Used Xbox Live API”
• “Deployed 100 Different Games”
• “Had a Game Published”
• “Peer Reviewed Someone Else’s Game”
• etc.

What achievements would you be proud to show off as a creator’s club member? add feedback/votes to the connect item if you agree

Getting a glimpse into the passion and determination of those early pioneers also inspires me to start plugging back into the community.  An aspect that I’ve largely been disconnected from for the past two years due to work and life. 

It is so important to think of the community as a whole instead of only your own personal ambitions.  Who knows what world-changing effort will find it’s roots in the central florida developer community.  I don’t know, but I’d like to say I was there

• I’ve joined Twitter to see what all the hullabaloo was about.
• Met up with the guys from Likemind.us … cool bunch.  Turns out the guy that runs those meetups, Alex Rudloff, was one of (or the?) guys that built twitterholic.
• Work is going quite well.
• Planning on going to the next ONETUG meeting this coming thursday.
• Have actually rediscovered the joy in coding for fun
• Work is underway for the next version of ScurvyMedia.  The one where you can sync up the audio track to the video.

In short … life is grand