XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide - Visual Basic Edition. Create your own exciting games with Visual Basic and Microsoft XNA 4.0 - Helion

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Autor: Kurt Jaegers
Tytuł oryginału: XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide - Visual Basic Edition. Create your own exciting games with Visual Basic and Microsoft XNA 4.0
ISBN: 9781849692410
stron: 424, Format: ebook
Data wydania: 2011-12-23
Księgarnia: Helion

Cena książki: 139,00 zł

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XNA Game Studio enables hobbyists and independent game developers to easily create video games, and now gives that power to Visual Basic developers. XNA lets you bring your creations to life on Windows, the Xbox 360 and the Windows Phone platforms. The latest release of XNA has added support to Visual Basic and therefore, Visual Basic developers now have the power to give life to their creativity with XNA.This book covers both the concepts and the implementations necessary to get you started on bringing your own creations to life with XNA. It presents four different games, including a puzzler, space shooter, multi-axis shoot 'em up, and a jump-and-run platformer. Each game introduces new concepts and techniques to build a solid foundation for your own ideas and creativity.This book details the creation of four games, all in different styles, from start to finish using Visual Basic and the Microsoft XNA framework. Beginning with the basics of drawing images to the screen, the book then incrementally introduces sprite animation, particles, sound effects, tile-based maps, and path finding. It then explores combining XNA with Windows Forms to build an interactive map editor, and builds a platform-style game using the editor-generated maps. Finally, the book covers the considerations necessary for deploying your games to the Xbox 360 platform.By the end of the book, you will have a solid foundation of game development concepts and techniques as well as working sample games to extend and innovate upon. You will have the knowledge necessary to create games that you can complete without an army of fellow game developers at your back.

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XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example Visual Basic Edition Beginners Guide
- Table of Contents
- XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example Visual Basic Edition Beginner's Guide
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
  - Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
    - Why Subscribe?
    - Free Access for Packt account holders
- Preface
  - What this book covers
  - What you need for this book
  - Who this book is for
  - Conventions
  - Time for action heading
    - What just happened?
    - Pop quiz heading
    - Have a go hero heading
  - Reader feedback
  - Customer support
    - Downloading the example code and colored images
    - Errata
    - Piracy
    - Questions
- 1. Introducing XNA Game Studio
  - Overview of the games
  - System requirements
  - Installing XNA Game Studio
  - Time for action installing XNA Game Studio
    - What just happened?
  - Building your first game
  - Time for action creating a new Windows game project
    - What just happened?
    - Anatomy of an XNA game
      - The declarations area
  - Time for action adding variables to the class declaration area
    - What just happened?
    - The Game1 class constructor
    - The Initialize() method
  - Time for action customizing the Initialize() method
    - What just happened?
    - The LoadContent() method
  - Time for action creating the squareTexture
    - What just happened?
    - The Update() method
  - Time for action coding Update() for SquareChase
    - What just happened?
    - The Draw() method
  - Time for action draw SquareChase!
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action play SquareChase!
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero
  - Summary
- 2. Flood Control Underwater Puzzling
  - Designing a puzzle game
  - Time for action setting up the Flood Control project
    - What just happened?
  - Introducing the Content Pipeline
  - Time for action reading textures into memory
    - What just happened?
  - Sprites and sprite sheets
  - Classes used in Flood Control
  - The GamePiece class
    - Identifying a GamePiece
  - Time for action build a GamePiece class - declarations
    - What just happened?
    - Creating a GamePiece
  - Time for action building a GamePiece class constructors
    - What just happened?
    - Updating a GamePiece
  - Time for action GamePiece class methods part 1 updating
    - Rotating pieces
  - Time for action GamePiece class methods part 2 rotation
    - What just happened?
    - Pipe connectors
  - Time for action GamePiece class methods part 3 connection methods
    - What just happened?
    - Sprite sheet coordinates
  - Time for action GamePiece class methods part 4 GetSourceRect
    - What just happened?
  - The GameBoard class
  - Time for action creating the GameBoard.cs class
    - What just happened?
    - Creating the game board
  - Time for action initializing the game board
    - What just happened?
    - Updating GamePieces
  - Time for action manipulating the GameBoard
    - What just happened?
    - Filling in the gaps
  - Time for action filling in the gaps
    - What just happened?
    - Generating new pieces
  - Time for action generating new pieces
    - What just happened?
    - Water-filled pipes
  - Time for action water in the pipes
    - What just happened?
    - Propagating water
  - Time for action making the connection
    - What just happened?
  - Building the game
    - Declarations
  - Time for action Game1 declarations
    - What just happened?
    - Initialization
  - Time for action updating the Initialize() method
    - What just happened?
    - The Draw() method the title screen
  - Time for action drawing the screen the title screen
    - What just happened?
    - The Draw() method the play screen
  - Time for action drawing the screen the play screen
    - What just happened?
    - Keeping score
  - Time for action scores and scoring chains
    - What just happened?
    - Input handling
  - Time for action handling mouse input
    - What just happened?
    - Letting the player play!
  - Time for action letting the player play
    - What just happened?
  - Play the game
  - Summary
- 3. Flood Control Smoothing Out the Rough Edges
  - Animated pieces
    - Classes for animated pieces
  - Time for action rotating pieces
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action falling pieces
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action fading pieces
    - What just happened?
    - Managing animated pieces
  - Time for action updating GameBoard to support animated pieces
    - What just happened?
    - Fading pieces
  - Time for action generating fading pieces
    - What just happened?
    - Falling pieces
  - Time for action generating falling pieces
    - What just happened?
    - Rotating pieces
  - Time for action modify Game1 to generate rotating pieces
    - What just happened?
    - Calling UpdateAnimatedPieces()
  - Time for action updating Game1 to update animated pieces
    - What just happened?
    - Drawing animated pieces
  - Time for action update Game1 to draw animated pieces
    - What just happened?
    - SpriteBatch overloads
  - SpriteFonts
  - Time for action add SpriteFonts to Game1
    - What just happened?
    - Score display
  - Time for action drawing the score
    - What just happened?
    - ScoreZooms
  - Time for action creating the ScoreZoom class
  - Time for action updating and displaying ScoreZooms
    - What just happened?
    - Adding the GameOver game state
  - Time for action game over
    - What just happened?
  - The flood
  - Time for action tracking the flood
    - What just happened?
    - Displaying the flood
  - Time for action displaying the flood
    - What just happened?
    - Difficulty levels
  - Time for action adding difficulty levels
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero
  - Summary
- 4. Asteroid Belt Assault Lost in Space
  - Creating the project
  - Time for action creating the Asteroid Belt Assault project
    - What just happened?
  - Another definition for sprite
    - Building the Sprite class
  - Time for action declarations for the Sprite class
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action Sprite constructor
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action basic Sprite properties
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action animation and drawing properties
    - What just happened?
    - Collision detection
  - Time for action supporting collision detection
    - What just happened?
    - Animation and movement
  - Time for action adding animation frames
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action updating the Sprite
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action drawing the Sprite
    - What just happened?
  - A Sprite-based star field
  - Time for action creating the StarField class
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action updating and drawing the StarField
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action viewing the StarField in action
    - What just happened?
  - Animated sprites asteroids
  - Time for action building the AsteroidManager class
    - What just happened?
    - Positioning the asteroids
  - Time for action positioning the asteroids
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action checking the asteroid's position
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action updating and drawing Asteroids
    - What just happened?
    - Colliding Asteroids
  - Time for action bouncing Asteroids part 1
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action bouncing Asteroids part 2
    - What just happened?
  - Player and enemy shots
  - Time for action adding the ShotManager class
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action firing shots
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action updating and drawing shots
    - What just happened?
  - Adding the player
  - Time for action creating the PlayerManager class
    - What just happened?
    - Handling user input
  - Time for action handling user input
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action updating and drawing the player's ship
    - What just happened?
  - Enemy ships
  - Time for action creating the Enemy class
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action waypoint management
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action enemy update and draw
    - What just happened?
    - The EnemyManager class
  - Time for action creating the EnemyManager class
    - What just happened?
    - Managing waypoints
  - Time for action setting up the EnemyManager class
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action spawning enemies
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action updating and drawing the EnemyManager
    - What just happened?
  - Summary
- 5. Asteroid Belt Assault Special Effects
  - Explosion effects
    - Expanding on sprites particles
  - Time for action constructing the Particle class
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action updating and drawing particles
    - What just happened?
    - Particle explosions
  - Time for action the ExplosionManager class
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action creating explosions
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action updating and drawing explosions
    - What just happened?
  - The collision manager
  - Time for action creating the CollisionManager class
    - What just happened?
    - Handling collisions
  - Time for action player shot collisions
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action player collisions
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action using the CollisionManager class
    - What just happened?
  - Sound effects
    - Generating and finding sound effects
    - Sound in XNA
  - Time for action building a sound effects manager
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action using the SoundManager class
    - What just happened?
  - The game structure
  - Time for action structuring the game
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action drawing the game structure
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero
  - Summary
- 6. Robot Rampage Multi-Axis Mayhem
  - Modules, modules, everywhere
  - Time for action creating the Robot Rampage project
    - What just happened?
  - A world larger than the screen
    - Defining a camera
  - Time for action creating the Camera class
    - What just happened?
    - World-aware sprites
  - Time for action building a new Sprite class
    - What just happened?
    - Visualizing the view
  - Time for action viewing the Sprite and Camera classes in action
    - What just happened?
  - The game world tile-based maps
    - Tiles
    - The tile map
  - Time for action creating the TileMap module
    - What just happened?
    - Map squares
  - Time for action dealing with map squares
    - What just happened?
    - Dealing with tiles
  - Time for action handling tiles
    - What just happened?
    - Drawing the map
  - Time for action drawing the tile map
    - What just happened?
    - Generating a random map
  - Time for action random wall placement
    - What just happened?
  - Adding the player
    - Building the Player module
  - Time for action building the Player module
    - What just happened?
    - Moving around the world
  - Time for action handling input
    - What just happened?
    - Staying in bounds
  - Time for action staying in bounds
    - What just happened?
    - Running into tiles
  - Time for action accounting for walls
    - What just happened?
  - Summary
- 7. Robot Rampage Lots and Lots of Bullets
  - Visual effects
    - Revisiting particles
  - Time for action the Particle class
    - What just happened?
    - The EffectsManager class
  - Time for action the EffectsManager module
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action building explosions
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action spark effects
    - What just happened?
  - Adding weaponry
    - The WeaponManager
  - Time for action beginning the WeaponManager module
    - What just happened?
    - Weapon upgrades
  - Time for action new weapons
    - What just happened?
    - Shot to map collisions
  - Time for action shots colliding with tiles
    - What just happened?
    - Power-ups
  - Time for action power-ups
    - What just happened?
    - We still have a problem...
  - Pathfinding
    - The A* Pathfinding algorithm
    - Implementing A*
  - Time for action the PathNode class
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action beginning the implementation of A*
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action finding the path
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action adjacent squares
    - What just happened?
    - Safely placing power-ups
  - Time for action updating the WeaponManager class
    - What just happened?
  - Player goals
    - Computer terminals
  - Time for action building a computer terminal
    - What just happened?
    - Spawning computer terminals
  - Time for action the GoalManager module
    - What just happened?
  - Enemy robots
    - Enemy basics
  - Time for action building the Enemy class
    - What just happened?
    - Moving enemies
  - Time for action enemy AI methods
    - What just happened?
    - The enemy manager
  - Time for action the enemy manager
    - What just happened?
    - Updating the WeaponManager
  - Time for action destroying enemies
    - What just happened?
  - Game structure
  - Time for action the GameManager module
    - What just happened?
    - Keeping score
  - Time for action awarding points
    - What just happened?
    - Updating Game1
  - Time for action updating the Game1 class
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero
  - Summary
- 8. Gemstone Hunter - Put on your Platform Shoes
  - Borrowing graphics
  - Time for action creating projects
    - What just happened?
  - A more advanced tile engine
  - Time for action the MapSquare class
    - What just happened?
    - Rebuilding the camera
  - Time for action the Camera module
    - What just happened?
    - Constructing the Tile Engine
  - Time for action the TileMap module part 1
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action the TileMap module part 2
    - What just happened?
    - Drawing the Tile Map
  - Time for action the TileMap module part 3
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action adding the tile map to the game project
    - What just happened?
  - The map editor project
    - Creating the map editor project
  - Time for action creating the Level Editor project
    - What just happened?
    - Adding a form
  - Time for action adding a form
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action adding event handlers
    - What just happened?
    - Filling out our form
  - Time for action creating the menu bar
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action tile selection controls
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action scroll bars
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action final controls
    - What just happened?
    - Updating the Game1 class
  - Time for action updating Game1
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action the Game1 Update method
    - What just happened?
    - Connecting the form to the game
  - Time for action completing the editor part 1
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action fixing the scrolling delay
    - What just happened?
    - Loading and saving maps
  - Time for action implementing loading and saving
    - What just happened?
    - Passability
    - Map codes
    - One last issue
  - Time for action handling the FormClosed event
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero
  - Summary
- 9. Gemstone HunterStanding on your Own Two Pixels
  - Animation strips
  - Time for action building the AnimationStrip class
    - What just happened?
  - Animated game objects
  - Time for action building the GameObject class part 1
    - What just happened?
    - Drawing, animation, and movement
  - Time for action building the GameObject class part 2
    - What just happened?
    - Map-based collision detection
  - Time for action building the GameObject class part 3
    - What just happened?
  - The player
  - Time for action creating the Player class
    - What just happened?
    - Running...
  - Time for action overriding the Update() method part 1
    - What just happened?
    - ...and jumping
  - Time for action overriding the Update() method part 2
    - What just happened?
    - Staying on the screen
  - Time for action repositioning the camera
    - What just happened?
  - Loading levels
    - The LevelManager module
  - Time for action building the LevelManager module
    - What just happened?
    - Gemstones
  - Time for action building the Gemstone class
    - What just happened?
    - Scoring
  - Time for action implementing score tracking
    - What just happened?
  - Enemies
  - Time for action summoning the zombies
    - What just happened?
    - Player-enemy interaction
  - Time for action interacting with zombies
    - What just happened?
  - Level transitions
  - Time for action supporting map transitions
    - What just happened?
  - Processing other codes
  - Time for action handling codes
    - What just happened?
  - Game structure
  - Time for action implementing game states
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero
  - Summary
- Index