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[...]... could I make a game out of that? The Sky’s the Limit Did you know that you can write your own games for the Xbox 360? Microsoft provides XNA Game Studio 4.0 for free, and it uses Visual C# 2 010 Express as the compiler For an annual membership fee, you can develop a game right on your retail Xbox 360 and upload your XNA games to a special “developer’s” section on Xbox Live Arcade and sell your game using... book was featured in that DarkBASIC book; see Chapter 15 , “2D Game Worlds: Level Editing and TileBased Scrolling.” And for the C++ code, see Chapter 10 , “Scrolling the Background” in Beginning Game Programming, Third Edition Another obvious choice for further study will be XNA Game Studio, which allows you to write games for Xbox 360 using the C# language we’re using here! Source code is very On Creativity,... fairly easy to use and Forms-based graphics programming produces good, fast results, which we need for a high-speed game loop This book treats C# like a professional game development language What makes Visual C# so popular in application development will be useful for our needs as well—we just won’t be using any data flow diagrams or flowcharts here! Although this is a For Teens book, that certainly... issues under Visual C# 2 010 as well If you have 2 010 you will still be able to run all of the code in the book, but you will have to convert the projects to the 2 010 format (an automatic process performed by Visual Studio when you open a 2008 project) I have left the projects in the 2008 format so that more readers will be able to open the projects with either version You cannot open 2 010 projects using... reading and programming level of the average reader who is likely to read the book I spent quite a few years doing NET programming with Visual C# and Visual Basic and I appreciate the NET environment But, I have to admit something: for every line of application code I have ever written, I was daydreaming about the source code for a game Now, no matter what I do day by day, I love game programming, ... platform, but we’re going to explore RPG creation with C# Note If you also like the Basic language and want to learn even more role-playing game development tricks, then check out the sister book, Visual Basic Game Programming for Teens, 3rd Edition! That book builds an open world with towns, trees, and beaches, and quests The Basic language is quite different from C# but the NET Framework and Forms... other games at the time that a whole new genre was created: the first-person shooter (FPS) FPS games dominate the game world today, unlike any other genre, partially because it consumed the virtual reality market that was flagging at the time Do you want to create a game like Doom using Visual C#? That goal is possible, but it would be a challenge The Visual C# compiler creates intermediate Game Programming. .. Figure 1. 2 Goldeneye 007 for Nintendo 64 and Wii (cover art) language (IL) code that looks the same regardless of whether you’re using Basic or C#, and then that IL code is compiled to an object file and linked into an executable file That compiled Visual C# game code could deliver a gaming experience like Doom There are quite a few third-party libraries available for C# and even more for C++ For example,... that will be used for the Dungeon Crawler game n Chapter 1: Welcome to the Dungeon n Chapter 2: Drawing Shapes and Bitmaps with GDI+ n Chapter 3: Sprites and Real-Time Animation n Chapter 4: Collision Detection n Chapter 5: Playing Sound Effects and Music This page intentionally left blank Chapter 1 Welcome to the Dungeon Welcome to the first chapter of Visual C# Game Programming for Teens This chapter... cover in this chapter: n Game programming is an art n Get your feet wet first, ask questions later n Let your creativity fly n Creativity, talent, and hard work n The sky’s the limit n Learning the tricks of the trade n Taking a look at Dungeon Crawler 3 4 Chapter 1 n Welcome to the Dungeon Game Programming Is an Art Visual C# is a good tool for beginners to use for writing games because the language . PC, and game consoles. He is the author of the recent books Beginning Java SE 6 Game Programming, Third Edition; Visual Basic Game Programming for Teens, Third Edition; XNA Game Studio 4.0 for Xbox. States of America 12 3456 713 1 211 eISBN -10 : 1- 4354-5849-4 This book is dedicated to Roy and Janice Harbour A big thank you once again to Emi Smith, Jenny Davidson, and Joshua Smith for another great.