Update!

Hey everyone, just want to give a quick update on what I've been up too. Currently I am working as a software engineer at a laboratory, making laboratory management software, websites, and even games! Its a really sweet job, and I have been learning a lot since ove been here. I am currently working in PHP, Visual Basic, C# (silverlight), and SQL. One of the most challenging tasks I have had while here has been taking an old QuikBasic program, and converting it into Visual Basic, which is like taking a knight from the dark ages and throwing him into today's New York and telling him to work haha. I pretty much have the freedom to complete projects however I want, using the language of my choice. This is awesome because it gives me a lot of flexibility. My current project has me making a game for one of our marketing sites. WE decided on Silverlight, so I have been making a "Space Invaders" clone so i can familiarize myself with the language. Its almost finished, only a few more things to do, so I wanted to post a screen shot of what I have. Yes its Halloween themed ;)

XNA Game - FIGHT!

So after years of wanting to do this, but not knowing how to start, me and my friend are finaly going to be building our super secret XNA puzzle game. Problem before was I didnt know how to build the puzzle board but using the awesome info from:

http://www.packtpub.com/article/building-complete-board-based-puzzle-game-microsoft-xna-40

By the way the author of that article also made a really good XNA 4.0 book, you should check it out. I was able to use bits and pieces and tailor it to give me a great starting point to the game. As of now its just gonna be a prototype to get the basic gameplay mechanics working. No pretty graphics yet.