Game Programming Basics
XNA Game Studio 3.0
To get started writing games in XNA Game Studio, you may wish to review these key how-to topics.
Fundamental How-To Topics
In This Section
- Adding Game Assets to Your Game
- Demonstrates how to add a texture asset to your game. The same procedure can also be applied to model and sound assets.
- How To: Load Content
- Demonstrates how you can load content and ensure that the content will be reloaded at the appropriate times.
- How To: Draw a Sprite
- Demonstrates how to draw a sprite by using the SpriteBatch class.
- How To: Draw Text
- Demonstrates how to import a SpriteFont into a project and draw text using DrawString.
- How To: Make a First-Person Camera
- Demonstrates how to create a first-person camera.
- How To: Render a Model
- Demonstrates how to load and render a model using the XNA Framework Content Pipeline.
- How To: Use BasicEffect
- Demonstrates how to create and initialize an instance of BasicEffect, initialize a vertex buffer that can be rendered by BasicEffect, apply the effect, and render the geometry.
- How To: Detect Whether a Controller Button Is Pressed
- Demonstrates how to detect whether a user has pressed a digital button on a connected Xbox 360 Controller.
- How To: Play a Sound
- Demonstrates how to play a sound.
- How To: Write Games for Less Capable Hardware
- Demonstrates how to write games for a variety of computer configurations. Specifically, this topic addresses ways to write a game so it will work on high-end hardware, yet continue to give adequate performance when the game is run on a computer that is less capable.
- How To: Open a File
- Demonstrates how to use the StorageContainer class to open a save game file in the title storage area on a device specified by the gamer.
Related Topics
For step-by-step guidance through creating a simple game, see the following sections.
