Learning XNA 4.0 / Aaron Reed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reed, Aaron.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microsoft XNA (Computer file).

Video games--Design.

Video games.

Video games--Programming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (540 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Beijing ; Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Want to develop games for Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7? This hands-on book will get you started with Microsoft's XNA 4.0 development framework right away -- even if you have no experience developing games. Although XNA includes several key concepts that can be difficult for beginning web developers to grasp, Learning XNA 4.0 shortens the learning curve by walking you through the framework in a clear and understandable step-by-step format. Each chapter offers a self-contained lesson with illustrations and annotated examples, along with exercises and review questions to help

Contents:

Table of Contents; Preface; Who This Book Is For; How This Book Is Organized; Support; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; We'd Like to Hear from You; Safari® Books Online; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. What's New in XNA 4.0?; Revised Project Folder Structure; Develop Games for Windows Phone 7 Series; Graphics Profiles; Configurable Effects; Built-in State Objects; Scalars and Orientation; Revised Input API; Additional Audio API; Music and Picture Enumeration and Video Playback; Modified and Added Classes and Methods; Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; Chapter 2. Getting Started

System RequirementsAdditional Resources; Installation; Creating Your First XNA Application; What You Just Did; Summary; Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; Chapter 3. Fun with Sprites; A Look Behind the Scenes; Game Development Versus Polling; Modifying Your Game; Adding a Sprite to Your Project; Loading and Drawing Your Sprite; Transparency and Other Options; Layer Depth; Let's Move; Animation; Adjusting the Framerate; Adjusting the Animation Speed; What You Just Did; Summary; Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; Test Your Knowledge: Exercise; Chapter 4. User Input and Collision Detection; More Sprites

Keyboard InputMouse Input; Gamepad Input; Keeping the Sprite in the Game Window; Collision Detection; What You Just Did; Summary; Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; Test Your Knowledge: Exercise; Chapter 5. Applying Some Object-Oriented Design; Designing Your Classes; Creating a Sprite Class; Creating a User-Controlled Sprite Class; Creating an Automated Sprite Class; Game Components; Coding the SpriteManager; Cleaning Up; Making Them Move; What You Just Did; Summary; Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; Test Your Knowledge: Exercise; Chapter 6. Sound Effects and Audio; Using XACT

Implementing XACT Audio Files in CodeUsing the Simplified API for Sound and Audio; Adding More Sound to Your Game; What You Just Did; Summary; Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; Test Your Knowledge: Exercise; Chapter 7. Basic Artificial Intelligence; The Turing Test; Creating Sprites at Random Intervals; Randomly Spawning Sprites; Irrelevant Objects; Creating a Chasing Sprite; Creating an Evading Sprite; What You Just Did; Summary; Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; Test Your Knowledge: Exercise; Chapter 8. Putting It All Together; Drawing 2D Text; Randomly Generating Different Sprite Types

Adding Some Variety to Your SpritesAdding a Background Image; Game Scoring; Game States; Enabling/Disabling GameComponents; Game-Over Logic and the Game-Over Screen; Fine-Tuning Gameplay; Creating Power-Ups; What You Just Did; Summary; Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; Test Your Knowledge: Exercise; Chapter 9. 3D Game Development; Coordinate Systems; Cameras; Creating a 3D Camera; Drawing Primitives; Matrix Multiplication; Movement and Rotation; Backface Culling; More on Rotations; Even More Rotations; Primitive Types; Applying Textures; What You Just Did; Summary; Test Your Knowledge: Quiz

Test Your Knowledge: Exercise

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781449302764

1449302769

9781449302863

1449302866

OCLC:

780425379