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Full Name Les Bird
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State/Province, Country FL   United States
GD Gathering City Sunrise, FL, United States
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Homepage URL http://www.lesbird.com 
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Job Title Director of Development 
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Member Since 1/16/2006 10:34:48 AM
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[XNA] Render to Form Control - strange behaviour Trying to render an XNA surface to a WinForm Panel control (I know, the millionth time this has been asked). Spent 2 days on this and can't get it to work. Googled for it, tried the solutions, still not working. Let's turn back the clock. Fir... 
Posted December 16, 2009 9:11:14 PM
Eliminator 3D arcade shooter My most recent arcade game, Eliminator 3D, plays like Robotron and Geometry Wars. Basically, you fly your ship around and shoot everything on the screen that comes towards you. As you get in to the upper difficulty levels the action is intense.... 
Posted January 24, 2006 8:17:00 AM
Levitar 3D: Evolved (Gravitar/Thrust-style game) Levitar 3D: Evolved - Episode One is now available for general public download. Levitar 3D: Evolved is a total rewrite of my original Levitar 3D game. The game should appeal to fans of Gravitar and Thrust but I also threw in a Lunar Lander... 
Posted November 2, 2006 3:06:54 PM
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[XNA] Render to Form Control - strange behaviour Quote:Original post by MJP Have you looked through this sample? It's a good starting point for making XNA work in a WinForms setting. Matt, Thanks for replying so quickly. I did indeed look at that sample and it's where I got most of my XNA in... 
Posted December 17, 2009 7:46:28 AM
Eliminator 3D arcade shooter Quote:Original post by speciesUnknown VS 6? What convinced you to stay with that? It's reached version 9 now and the express edition is free... Anyway, the use of particles for text is brilliant, that title screen does look awsome. Excellent work... 
Posted April 30, 2009 7:43:15 AM
Levitar 3D: Evolved (Gravitar/Thrust-style game) Episode 4, the Venus missions, is now available for download. One new weapon - the very destructive sub-atomic bomb! 6 new missions on a hot, windy planet. - Les  
Posted January 13, 2007 3:26:11 PM
Levitar 3D: Evolved (Gravitar/Thrust-style game) Episode 3 (the Pluto Missions) is now available for download. Two new weapons (the rail gun and the vortex bomb), two new enemies (the battle cruiser and the super cannon) and a new icy planet environment.  
Posted December 23, 2006 6:52:41 PM
Levitar 3D: Evolved (Gravitar/Thrust-style game) Episode Two is nearly complete. After I do some last minute testing and make sure all files are updated I'll put it up online for download. It includes missions on the Moon and some more small enhancements. I also added an online hi... 
Posted November 18, 2006 8:26:59 PM
Levitar 3D: Evolved (Gravitar/Thrust-style game) Any more comments on this? I'm curious if anyone has had problems getting it to run. A new version is up, 1.08, that makes it more compatible and with more graphic detail settings than earlier versions. - Les  
Posted November 10, 2006 6:33:08 PM
Levitar 3D: Evolved (Gravitar/Thrust-style game) By the way, it's not documented yet but to get to the configurable keys press F1 at anytime during the game then F2 to go to the keyboard configuration. I'll go update the online documentation right now. - Les  
Posted November 5, 2006 9:21:41 AM
Levitar 3D: Evolved (Gravitar/Thrust-style game) Good feedback! Thanks. I'll look into the objective out of range bug. I can fix that. The new version (V1.05) might work better for you on the laptop. I rewrote the mesh rendering code and a few other areas which sped things up a bit. Also... 
Posted November 5, 2006 9:19:13 AM
Levitar 3D: Evolved (Gravitar/Thrust-style game) Anyone here try this yet? Comments? Suggestions? Some people have suggested configurable keys which is now available along with some performance improvements. - Les  
Posted November 5, 2006 7:29:51 AM
Eliminator 3D arcade shooter Nilkn, Thanks for your suggestions, points are well taken. I'll make some corrections. My best score on Geometry Wars is a mere 315,000. Not even close to your 2+ million. Impressive. I checked out HGEWars. Thanks for the link. I like how... 
Posted January 27, 2006 8:49:52 AM
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