Eric Sweeten's Blog

Category: Gaming

  • Wumpus Revenge (made in Microsoft XNA)

    This was a Microsoft XNA group project I did along with three classmates when I attended the University of Washington, Tacoma. Microsoft XNA is the programming language used to make Xbox 360 games. It is C# with additional libraries. Note that you will be required to install additional software on your PC in order for…

  • What are Massive Multiplayer Role-Playing Games (like World of Warcraft)?

    MMORPG stands for “Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game”. RPG’s have been around since at least 1974 when the original tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons was released, then later the first published computer RPG was released in 1980 (?) with Akalabeth: World of Doom on the Apple II, and the first console game RPG was released for the Atari 2600 with Dragonstomper. Here are some good definitions, all from Wikipedia: A massively…