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I'm a professional game developer from Wakefield, England, working as a senior programmer for Rebellion North.

I'm a married father of five and I a also sometimes do Retroburn stuff.

Martin 'Bytrix' Caine

Father. C++ Games Programmer. Cyclist. Guitarist.

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My Thoughts on Windows 8, XNA and XBLIG

I've not posted much lately as I've been busy finishing my game Positron but I've been seeing increasingly negative comments targetted at Microsoft with regards to Windows 8, XNA, and XBLIG lately and I thought I'd post something to share my thoughts.

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Tuesday, January 10th 2012 / XNA

XBLIG Network - Networking and Promotion

Being an advocate of the Xbox Live Indie Games channel I have always tried to stay on top of the games being released and follow many of the developers on social networks like Twitter and Facebook.

The thing is, there are many more XBLIG developers who I'm not following, and many games which get very little exposure on the internet and they don't get the coverage from the gaming media either.

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Tags: games networking promotion xblig xblig network xbox live indie games xna

Thursday, October 20th 2011 / XNA

Pre-Release Expectations of Xbox Live Indie Games

I was pleased to see an article about Xbox Live Indie Games (XBLIG) on gamesindustry.biz this week, but after reading it I think the writer still did not really explain what the article title hinted at. The article in question subtitled 'How To Survive' does not really give much insight into how the platform and the marketplace works for the average developer. It showcases some of the work done by some of the more experienced developers and sweeps away the thousands of failed ventures that have gone before them.

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Tags: games xblig xbox xbox live indie games xna

Thursday, June 17th 2010 / XNA

Optimizing my BSP loader

I've been thinking for a while that I need to go back to my XNA BSP Processor / Importer to optimize the output a little more and my current focus is optimizing the patch meshes in the BSP. We use NetRadiant to create our game levels in BSP format (and for our track builder I export each piece as an individual BSP then convert it into a mesh since I'm not really a modeller but I'm pretty good with level editing tools).

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Tags: bsp retroburn game studios tesselation track builder xblig xbox live indie games xna

Tuesday, June 15th 2010 / XNA

New track bulder game

Here's a preview of my latest XNA project, a new track builder game for Xbox Live Indie Games. The screenshot here shows a view of the track in free-view mode after creating the track in-game. The aim of the game is to create your own tracks, set fastest lap times and share them with other people on Xbox Live!

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Tags: retroburn game studios track bulder xblig xbox live indie games xna

Tuesday, May 4th 2010 / Blog

Follow me on Twitter

For those of you out there who are Twitter users I have three accounts on there which I try to regularly keep updated (ok, not so much yet but I do plan to update them more often).

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