Professional XNA Programming : Building Games for Xbox 360 and Windows with XNA Game Studio 2.0 , 2nd Edition
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Feb 2008, Pages: 600
Wrox's Professional XNA Game Programming is the best-selling guide to Microsoft's framework for building games for Xbox 360 and Windows. Professional game developer and MVP Benjamin Nitschke shares his experience with the XNA Framework, and teaches readers how to use the free XNA Game Studio Express 2.0 to build cutting edge 2D and 3D games. This improved and updated edition of Professional XNA Game Programming is a hands-on guide that will get readers up and running with XNA quickly, and includes 6 fully functional games including the popular Racing Game, and the new Dungeon Quest.
Topics include:
- XNA requirements and components - Writing helper classes - Graphics with the XNA Framework - Create great visual effects through Shaders - Using XAct for Music and Sounds - Accessing Keyboard, Mouse and Xbox Controllers with XInput - Programming a complete racing game - Building a graphics engine - Creating a game engine - Building networked games - How to get all the content managed in XNA - Fine tuning and debugging - Deployment to Xbox 360
