So! how’s everyone doing? It’s been a long time since I last updated my site. I’ve been really busy with work, school, and the wedding. Everything is going well, though. I’ve been working on some side projects, mostly for Windows Phone 7. I’ve been spending a lot of time learning Silverlight and XNA 4.0. Mix in some Adobe After Effects and you’ve got yourself a nice/decent intro for some games.

So in the spirit of learning new things, I found a Visual Studio Template for making an XNA game already with game state management and an asynchronous loading screen. It’s really nice, except it doesn’t work on XNA GS 4.0. Perhaps it might work on 3.1, but I’m trying to make games for Windows Phone 7, so that’s kinda useless. So, I ended up making a new template. You can follow the same steps used in the linked site.

Here’s the new template: GameStateManagementWindows.zip
All of the credit for code included in the zip goes to Nazeeh and Microsoft. I did modify some code so that it can compile, but it was a grand total of 2 lines that were changed. Other than that, I repackaged the project so it will open in Visual Studio 2010 using XNA GS 4.0.