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Nick Gravelyn has uploaded his Tile Engine tutorials to YouTube as a playlist (in his own words: A bunch of older video tutorials I did for creating a tile engine using XNA Game Studio.) to YouTube.
The playlist can be found here.
What does HLSL stand for? Why was it created? How does an HLSL effect file look like? What can you do with HLSL? Catalin Zima answers these questions and more in a brilliant article introducing HLSL over at her site. Check it out here
Dave Charlile has posted a great new article over at SGT. CONKER detailing the implementation of a lens flares that cater for obstruction. For a better worded explanation check out the following:
One thing every planet generator needs is a nice bright sun and ubiquitous lens flares. While the concept of lens flares is fairly [...]