XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide - Visual Basic Edition

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Автор книги: Kurt Jaegers

Название книги: XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide - Visual Basic Edition

Издательство: Packt Publishing

Год издания книги: 2011

ISBN: 978-1-84969-240-3

Страниц: 424

Формат книги: EPUB / PDF

Размер файла: 13 MB

Язык книги: English

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XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide - Visual Basic Edition позволяет как специалистам, та и любителям игр с легкостью создавать видео-игры. XNA поможет вам воплотить свои замыслы в жизнь на Windows, Xbox 360 и платформы Windows Phone. В последний релиз XNA была добавлена поддержка для Visual Basic и, следовательно, Visual Basic, разработчики теперь имеют все возможности, чтобы творить с XNA.

XNA Game Studio enables hobbyists and independent game developers to easily create video games, and now gives that power to Visual Basic developers. XNA lets you bring your creations to life on Windows, the Xbox 360 and the Windows Phone platforms. The latest release of XNA has added support to Visual Basic and therefore, Visual Basic developers now have the power to give life to their creativity with XNA.

This book covers both the concepts and the implementations necessary to get you started on bringing your own creations to life with XNA. It presents four different games, including a puzzler, space shooter, multi-axis shoot ‘em up, and a jump-and-run platformer. Each game introduces new concepts and techniques to build a solid foundation for your own ideas and creativity.

This book details the creation of four games, all in different styles, from start to finish using Visual Basic and the Microsoft XNA framework. Beginning with the basics of drawing images to the screen, the book then incrementally introduces sprite animation, particles, sound effects, tile-based maps, and path finding. It then explores combining XNA with Windows Forms to build an interactive map editor, and builds a platform-style game using the editor-generated maps. Finally, the book covers the considerations necessary for deploying your games to the Xbox 360 platform.

By the end of the book, you will have a solid foundation of game development concepts and techniques as well as working sample games to extend and innovate upon. You will have the knowledge necessary to create games that you can complete without an army of fellow game developers at your back.

A step-by-step tutorial for using Visual Basic with Microsoft XNA to create four different styles of video games.

What you will learn from this book:

Install the Microsoft XNA Framework and its required tools

Build XNA Game projects and associated XNA Content projects

Create a puzzle-style game exploring the concepts of game states, recursion, and 2D animation

Add sound effects to your game with a “fire-and-forget” sound effects manager

Create a particle system to generate random explosions

Implement sound effects, collisions, and particle-based explosions by building a space shooter inside a chaotic asteroid field

Implement the A* path-finding algorithm to allow enemies to track down the player

Generate tile-based maps and path-finding enemy tanks amidst a storm of bullets in a multi-axis shooter

Combine XNA and Windows Forms to create a map editor for a multi-layered tile map engine

Run, jump, and squash enemies in a side-scrolling platform using the maps from your editor

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