August XNA Creators Club Online Update

Another update on creators.xna.com. Here’s a list of what’s new.

# Premium starter kit – Ship Game

Ship Game is a 3D spaceship combat game set inside a complex tunnel system. Ship Game features advanced lighting and textures, a full GPU particle system, and advanced physics. Explore the tunnels on your own, or take on a friend head-to-head using split-screen mode. This starter kit is only available for XNA Creator Club Members.

# Optimization Tutorial

This tutorial teaches you how to find and correct performance problems in your game, and highlights solutions to common performance problems on Xbox 360, using a particle system as an example.

# Distortion Sample

Using a particle system as an example, this tutorial teaches you how to find and correct performance problems in your game, and highlights solutions to common performance problems on Xbox 360.

# Shader Series 4: Materials and Multiple Light Sources Sample

Until now, the shader series has focused on single meshes, single lights, and single materials. This sample demonstrates how a developer might combine the techniques leading up to this sample into a usable system for composing a 3D scene.