Game completed and posted online. Have a look...

I recently developed a 3D game using XNA and have posted the binary and source on www.threesixbox.com. The game's name is Snake and it can be found at http://www.threesixbox.com/project/ id=f580fc1536

I've been developing games since the early 80's but just downloaded XNA last week. During the course of the project I went through several iterations of optimizations and learned quite a bit about XNA. 

I know that whenever I'm learning a new development language or library, working examples are very helpful to me.  If nothing else, this project can be used as another source of information for anyone interested in XNA development.

Let me know what you think...

Hmmm...

I thought I fixed all the power of two texture issues but I'll take a quick look.

I made the snake purposefully slow on the first level (my wife was complaining that it was too fast for her). A quick test to see if it's frame rate or the intentionally slowness would be to change the start speed variable for the snake to a bigger number.

I'm developing on a pretty loaded Alienware PC so the XBox 360 is the slowest platform I've run it on. I'll move it to a slower computer and see what happens...

Thanks for the feedback!

I just finished uploading a project update. The texture power of two issue should be fixed. I also increased the initial speed for the snake. I still need to try the game on some slower pc's to look into the frame rate issues some are experiencing.

If you don't want to download everything again for just these two fixes, you can do the following:

1. Open Content\Models\Green.bmp and resize it (in Paint use Image->Attribute) the the next lower power of two (16x16).

2. In Main.cs, change the declaration of startPlayerSpeed to:

protected const float startPlayerSpeed = 4.25f;

Thanks!