Now you can build your own games for your Xbox 360, Windows Phone 7, or Windows-based PC—as you learn the underlying concepts for computer programming. Use this hands-on guide to dive straight into your first project—adding new tools and tricks to your arsenal as you go. No experience required!
- Learn XNA and C# fundamentals—and increase the challenge with each chapter
- Write code to create and control game behavior
- Build your game’s display—from graphics and text to lighting and 3-D effects
- Capture and cue sounds
- Process input from keyboards and gamepads
- Create features for one or multiple players
- Tweak existing games—and invent totally new ones
- ISBN10 0735651574
- ISBN13 9780735651579
- Publish Date 15 January 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Microsoft Press,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 464
- Language English