Bouncing Ball Movement in a 2D Level

krissteele.net — Making an enemy that bounces like a ball around a 2D level, not just bounces at the screen boundries. read more...

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Kollectiv has Been Released

virtualrealm.com.au — Kollectiv - A puzzle game written in C# using microsofts XNA Framework. This is an addicting cross between tetris and bejeweled and is playable via mouse, keyboard or gamepad (only on the XBOX 360). read more...

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Sprite Sheets in XNA: Auto-Movement

berecursive.com — If you begin from my previous article then you should already have a decent template for what we're about to create, which is auto-movement! We've all played games such as Final Fantasy or Pokemon that have sprites that walk around say, in a circle, or back and forth along a path. Of course, they don't just glide around, they walk like you do when you move. Therefore, in order to create a non-playable character (NPC) that uses the same animation method we do, lets add the ability to create an auto-moving character. read more...

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Sprite Sheets in Xna: The Basics

berecursive.com — When designing 2D games, many of has have the annoying habit of being born out of the Flash age. We want to be able to have a drawing of something and animate, just like we did in Flash! However, this is obviously not possible in XNA since XNA is not a enriched content creation platform but instead a library for the creation of games. There is, however, an alternative that we might find more familiar, and these are Sprite Sheets. read more...

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Tile Based Placement in XNA

berecursive.com — Having just begun programming for XNA I thought I’d begin to share what I’ve been learning. One thing I definitely aim to do which I find lacking in many tutorials is explain the logic behind what I’m doing so it can be easily ported into other languages (such as Flash). For this tutorial I’m going to cover quite an easy feature, which is locking the placement of a sprite to a ’tile-based’ system. This is essentially the mechanism found in most tower defense games for tower placement. read more...

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Compressing your audio in XNA

dolittle.com — An easy to use guide for a setting everyone can use until comression of audio becomes a real feature in XNA. read more...

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XNA games coming to the Zune, Xbox Live Arcade

3dgameprogramming.net — This morning at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft announced the next step in its Xbox Live and XNA initiative: the Zune will become the third pillar supporting XNA software, with over 1,000 games ready for the device by year end. XNA software developed for the Xbox Live Arcade is now going to be opened to the public. Microsoft showed off an XNA game running on a Zune during a keynote speech presented by vice president John Schappert. A top-scrolling space shooter was shown running on a PC, an Xbox 360, and, lastly, a Zune. In addition, Zune games will be multiplayer: users will be able to play against each other online. Games for the platform will be arriving this year alongside the launch of Xbox Live Community Games. The new XNA-oriented service, Xbox Live Community Games, allows select user-created software to be distributed through Xbox Live, effectively opening user-created games to the masses. Titles will be selected through a democratized game distribution system pulling on the Creator’s Club user base. Members will be able to screen and vote on games, with those reaching a certain level of approval cleared and released to the public. A handful of these games are now available as trials on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Creator’s Club members are paying subscribers who have access to the XNA development platform. Much like the gamercard, a “creator card” will show what games specific creators have built. XNA is a suite of development software which Microsoft introduced in 2006. The suite allows developers to create projects that can easily be translated between the support platforms. Previously only the PC and the Xbox 360 were supported, but the Zune represents Microsoft’s first significant step into the mobile gaming market. read more...

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How to build a 3D game using XNA

published 6 months, 30 days ago, submitted by HoolieMan 7 months, 1 day ago

blogs.msdn.com — Dan Waters has just published a 14 part video cast series on how to build a 3D game, complete with audio, input, and character animation. 2 Hours and 25 Minutes of total content! read more...

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